Press release · August 18, 2022
Within hours, companies can enlist Mobot's fleet of physical robots to battle test their software on devices the way humans actually use them, catching bugs QA software can't detect.
NEW YORK, N.Y., August 18, 2022 — Today, Mobot publicly launched its QA-as-a-service platform and announced $12.5 million in Series A funding from Cota Capital, with participation from Heavybit, Uncorrelated Ventures, and others.
Mobot's first-of-its-kind platform uses physical robots to battle test mobile applications. Companies serving millions of users, including Citizen, Persona, Branch, Mapbox, and Radar, use Mobot to test apps on hundreds of devices, platforms, and operating systems within hours.
“Mobot has helped us increase our App Store rating from 4.2 to 4.8 and achieve a 99.9% crash-free rate,” said Swamy Ramaswamy, CTO and COO at Sandboxx. “Our app is responsible for helping military service members send and receive physical letters with family, so stability is crucial. Mobot is a critical part of our QA workflow and regularly uncovers issues that weren't surfaced by our internal software testing process.”
Emulators and virtual QA environments cannot cover the edge cases that come from real devices, notifications, integrations, and OS fragmentation. Mobot automates those last-mile scenarios with mechanical robots on real hardware — so teams ship with fewer escaped defects and less manual QA grind.
Challenging use cases Mobot automates include multi-device messaging, Bluetooth/Wi‑Fi hardware connections, push notifications and Live Activities, backwards-compatibility and camera coverage across manufacturers, and critical flows such as payments, login, MFA/biometrics, and backgrounded app behavior.
Mobot was founded in 2018 by Eden Full Goh and is headquartered in New York. Investors include Cota Capital, Heavybit, Uncorrelated Ventures, and Y Combinator.
Media contact: press@mobot.io
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