# Abhijit Kane

> Abhijit Kane is Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Postman, the world's leading API platform used by 20+ million developers and 98% of Fortune 500 companies. A BITS Pilani alumnus, he joined Abhinav Asthana and Ankit Sobti in 2014 to turn a viral Stack Overflow side project into a $5.6 billion company that defines how developers build, test, and collaborate on APIs.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CPO at Postman
- **Organizations:** Postman, WalmartLabs, VMware, Adobe, BITS Pilani
- **From:** New Delhi, India
- **Nationality:** Indian
- **Education:** B.E. in Computer Science & Economics (Dual Degree), Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani
- **Known for:** Co-founded Postman, the world's most-used API platform with 20M+ developers, Helped grow Postman to a $5.6 billion valuation, Oversees product for a platform used by 98% of Fortune 500 companies

## Career timeline

- **2012** — Internship at Adobe - developed a phone application for font recognition
- **2013** — Internship at VMware - created internal dashboards
- **2013** — Joined WalmartLabs as Software Engineer
- **2014** — Co-founded Postman with Abhinav Asthana and Ankit Sobti; incorporated in April 2014
- **2015** — Postman reached 600,000 users; raised $1M seed from Nexus Venture Partners
- **2016** — Postman raised $7M Series A
- **2020** — Postman raised $150M Series C; reached $2B valuation
- **2021** — Postman raised $225M Series D; reached $5.6B valuation
- **2023** — Postman serves 20M+ developers worldwide; 98% of Fortune 500 use Postman

## Achievements

- Co-founded Postman, the world's most-used API platform with 20M+ developers
- Helped grow Postman to a $5.6 billion valuation
- Oversees product for a platform used by 98% of Fortune 500 companies
- Built the Postman Classroom Program reaching 4,000+ BITS Pilani students
- Helped raise $433M in total funding across Seed, Series A, B, C, and D rounds
- Turned a viral Chrome extension into a full-scale enterprise platform

## Latest updates

- **2021-08** — Postman closed $225M Series D funding round at $5.6B valuation
- **2020-09** — Featured on 'Not Your Average Postman' podcast discussing product and company journey
- **2023-01** — Postman reaches 20M+ developer users globally with 200,000+ organizations

## Links

- Website: https://postman.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhijitkane
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/abhijit_kane
- GitHub: https://github.com/abhijitkane
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgsr9Ncg5to

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Last updated: 2026-05-27