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Southborough-based uTest Inc., a software testing marketplace, has raised $13 million in a Series C funding round led by Scale Venture Partners of Foster City, Calif., uTest Vice President of Marketing and Community Matt Johnston confirmed today.
Series A investors Mass Technology Development Corp. and Mesco Ltd. returned to participate in the C round, as did Series B investors Egan-Managed Capital and Longworth Venture Partners.
The new round, uTest’s third, brings the company’s total outside investment to $20.5 million, Johnston said. The company plans to invest the funds in efforts to expand its crowdsourced community of software testers.
“We’ll be rolling out programs, training and things of that nature that help with the skill level and help identify promising testers and make sure they get onramped to the right project,” Johnston said.
To that end, uTest will hire community managers and software engineers. The company also plans to develop software tools for testers, for in-house use managing tester communities, Johnston said. Other engineering projects will
focus on improving integration with software its customers use, like the Rally software development planning tool.
The company was founded in 2007, when it revealed a plan to assemble a global army of testers that developers can enlist via the Internet to identify bugs in software using a novel “pay-per-bug” method.
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