# Abhinav Asthana

> Abhinav Asthana is the co-founder and CEO of Postman, the world's leading API platform used by over 35 million developers and 500,000 organizations. Growing up in small-town Uttar Pradesh, India, he taught himself programming as a child, built virtual tour software before finishing college, and turned a side project Chrome extension into a company valued at $5.6 billion. He moved Postman from Bangalore to San Francisco in 2017 and has raised $433 million in total funding, including a $225M Series D in 2021.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and CEO at Postman
- **Organizations:** Postman, TeliportMe, BITS360, Grayscale Design
- **From:** Varanasi, India
- **Nationality:** Indian
- **Education:** B.E. (Hons.) in Electronics, Programming and Multimedia, BITS Pilani (Goa Campus)
- **Known for:** Built Postman into a platform used by 35 million developers and 500,000 organizations worldwide, Raised $433M in total funding including a $225M Series D at $5.6B valuation (2021), Grew Postman from 0 to 9 million users without a traditional sales team

## Career timeline

- **2006** — Enrolled at BITS Pilani Goa Campus
- **2008** — Built BITS360, a 360-degree virtual tour platform for college campuses, launching 5 months before Google Street View
- **2009** — Interned at Yahoo Bangalore and Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (ISRO); encountered API testing pain points that later inspired Postman
- **2010** — Graduated from BITS Pilani; co-founded TeliportMe (500 Startups alumnus, raised $500K+)
- **2012** — Built first version of Postman as a Chrome Web Store extension to solve API testing frustrations
- **2013** — Postman reached 500K users on Chrome Web Store; Asthana left TeliportMe to focus on Postman
- **2014** — Formally founded Postman Inc. with co-founders Ankit Sobti and Abhijit Kane on October 1
- **2017** — Moved Postman headquarters from Bangalore to San Francisco to be closer to the developer community
- **2020** — Raised $150M Series C, reaching $2B valuation; Postman scaled to 9M+ users
- **2021** — Raised $225M Series D at $5.6B valuation; team scaled to 700+ employees across 20+ countries
- **2024** — Revived POST/CON, Postman's annual API conference
- **2025** — Launched Postman AI Agent Builder and full Model Context Protocol (MCP) support; began angel investing in companies including Aurva and Firecrawl

## Achievements

- Built Postman into a platform used by 35 million developers and 500,000 organizations worldwide
- Raised $433M in total funding including a $225M Series D at $5.6B valuation (2021)
- Grew Postman from 0 to 9 million users without a traditional sales team
- Built BITS360 virtual tour technology 5 months before Google Street View launched
- Earned his first income freelancing for international clients at age 13
- Scaled Postman team from 5 to 700+ employees across 20+ countries
- Launched AI Agent Builder and MCP support, positioning Postman for the agentic AI era
- Featured in Forbes India among notable tech founders

## Latest updates

- **2025-06** — Postman launched 'Postman Powers the Agentic Future' announcement, positioning APIs as the backbone of AI agent communication
- **2025-05** — Shared views on empowering developers in the AI age with Cerebral Valley publication
- **2025-01** — Postman launched AI Agent Builder combining LLMs with the Postman API platform, supporting OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, Cohere, and Llama
- **2025-01** — Full Model Context Protocol (MCP) support launched, generating MCP servers from Postman's network of 100,000+ public APIs
- **2025-01** — Angel invested in Firecrawl (web data extraction startup)
- **2024-09** — Angel invested in Aurva

## Links

- Website: https://postman.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhinavasthana
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/a85
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/getpostman

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Last updated: 2026-05-27