Ritesh Arora
Ritesh Arora is an Indian entrepreneur and angel investor. He is the co-founder and chief executive officer of BrowserStack, a software testing platform.
Early life and education
Ritesh Arora graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 2006 with a degree in computer science and engineering.Career
Arora and Nakul Aggarwal founded BrowserStack in Mumbai in 2011 while working on a consulting project called Downcase. They developed a beta version of the cross-browser testing platform before launching it commercially later that year.As CEO, Arora was involved in expanding BrowserStack from its initial product into a suite of over 15 tools. By 2015, the company reported users in 135 countries, with clients that included Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, Walt Disney, Airbnb, and Tesco. That year, it received recognition as the Bootstrap Champ at The Economic Times Startup Awards.
In 2018, BrowserStack raised US$50 million in Series A funding from Accel. The company also established offices in San Francisco and New York, and opened a development base in Ireland as part of its international expansion.
As of 2021, BrowserStack's tools were reported to facilitate more than three million tests daily for over 50,000 teams globally. That same year, the company was valued at $4 billion following a $200 million Series B funding round led by BOND.