SmartBear Acquires Bugsnag

BrowserStack Acquires Bird Eats Bug and Launches Bug Capture

August 27, 2024

Software

BrowserStack has acquired Bird Eats Bug and integrated its bug-reporting technology into a new offering called Bug Capture to accelerate BrowserStack's developer-first end-to-end test platform vision. The acquisition brings Bird Eats Bug's mature product (30,000+ users) and capabilities such as instant replay and auto-captured technical logs into BrowserStack's cloud testing ecosystem.

SmartBear Acquires Stoplight

August 22, 2023

Cloud & SaaS

SmartBear has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Stoplight, a SaaS API design-first company based in Austin, Texas. The deal combines Stoplight's governance, mocking, and visual/no-code editing capabilities with SmartBear's API design, documentation, and portal offerings to create a more comprehensive API development platform.

LogicMonitor Acquires Airbrake

February 23, 2021

Cloud & SaaS

LogicMonitor, the Santa Barbara–based cloud infrastructure monitoring and observability platform, acquired Airbrake, a developer-centric application error and performance monitoring company based in the Bay Area. The acquisition extends LogicMonitor’s observability platform into developer environments and CI/CD workflows to provide unified visibility across infrastructure, logs, errors and performance.

Vista Equity Partners Invests in SmartBear; Francisco Partners Remains Co-Owner

October 21, 2020

Software

SmartBear announced that Vista Equity Partners has made a significant investment and will join Francisco Partners as equal owners of the company. The capital infusion is intended to help SmartBear broaden and strengthen its DevOps and software quality solutions and to pursue continued organic and inorganic growth. SmartBear is headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts and serves millions of developers across thousands of organizations.

SmartBear Acquires QMetry

December 3, 2024

Software

SmartBear has acquired QMetry, an AI-enabled digital quality and test management platform, to expand SmartBear Test Hub's capabilities and accelerate AI-driven test management. The acquisition strengthens SmartBear's reach into regulated end markets (healthcare, finance, government) and deepens its AI and test-management product offerings.

Sentry Acquires Emerge Tools

May 6, 2025

Software

Sentry, the developer-focused application monitoring platform, has acquired Emerge Tools, a provider of mobile app performance, size optimization, and visual regression tooling. The acquisition integrates Emerge's mobile-focused products into Sentry’s platform to expand mobile monitoring and optimization capabilities for Sentry’s developer customers.