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Instabug has raised $52.9M across 4 funding rounds.
Key people at Instabug.
Instabug has raised $52.9M in total across 4 funding rounds.
Instabug, based in San Francisco, California, provides an AI-powered mobile observability platform for developers to detect, diagnose, and resolve application issues such as bugs, crashes, and performance problems across iOS, Android, and web applications. The company secured $46 million in Series B funding in 2022 and, as of 2019, served over 25,000 companies, monitoring issues on more than 2 billion devices globally. Its comprehensive platform offers tools including shake-to-report bug reporting, crash reporting, user feedback, in-app chats, surveys, and session replays. With an employee count ranging from 101 to 250, Instabug's leadership includes co-founders Omar Gabr, who serves as CEO, and Moataz Soliman, the CTO. Instabug was founded in 2014 by Omar Gabr and Moataz Soliman. Its business model centers on saaS subscription model for mobile observability tools used by developers and enterprises.
Instabug builds an AI-powered mobile observability platform that provides crash reporting, bug detection, performance monitoring, user session replays, and feedback tools for mobile apps.[1][2][5][6] It serves mobile engineering and product teams—from indie developers to enterprises—solving the problem of incomplete visibility into app performance and user frustration, which traditional server-side tools overlook, by delivering granular insights into crashes, UI issues, slow launches, and network failures to boost retention and growth.[1][2][3][6] With $52.7M in total funding, including a $46M Series B in 2022 led by Insight Partners, Instabug shows strong momentum through rapid feature launches like Frustration-Free Sessions and AI Visual Issues.[2][3][5]
Founded in 2014 in Egypt and later headquartered in San Francisco (with some sources noting Palo Alto), Instabug emerged to address gaps in mobile app debugging, starting with its signature "shake-to-report" bug feature that gained early traction.[2][5][6] Co-founders including Moataz Soliman (CTO) brought engineering expertise to create tools helping developers understand app performance's impact on user experience, launching formally around 2016.[1][2] Pivotal moments include the 2022 Series B funding to expand into a full mobile observability platform and ongoing AI innovations, evolving from basic bug reporting to proactive, zero-maintenance app solutions.[2][4][5]
Instabug rides the mobile observability trend, where apps generate 90%+ of digital interactions but lack web-like insights, amplified by AI advancements enabling proactive quality at scale.[2][4][9] Timing aligns with rising mobile retention demands amid app fatigue—users abandon over frustrations like crashes or slowness—fueled by market forces like AI democratization and zero-downtime expectations in e-commerce/gaming.[3][6] It influences the ecosystem by setting standards for client-side monitoring, empowering teams to tie app stability to revenue, and accelerating "self-healing" apps that free developers for innovation.[4][7][9]
Instabug is poised to dominate AI-powered mobile observability, expanding toward fully autonomous, zero-maintenance apps with deeper AI integrations like predictive fixes and cross-platform visuals.[4][9] Trends like edge AI, multimodal user data, and business-aligned metrics will shape its path, potentially capturing more enterprise share as mobile-first strategies intensify. Its influence may evolve from bug tool to indispensable growth engine, humanizing mobile dev by quantifying "invisible" frustrations—echoing its origins in giving teams the visibility they've long needed.[2][3]
Instabug has raised $52.9M in total across 4 funding rounds.
Instabug's investors include Insight Partners, Richard Wong, Endeavor, ForgePoint Capital, Amr Awadallah, Jim Payne, Accel, Flat6Labs.
Key people at Instabug.
Instabug has raised $52.9M across 4 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $46.0M Series B in May 2022.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 2022 | $46M Series B | Insight Partners | Richard Wong, Accel, Endeavor, ForgePoint Capital | Announced |
| May 4, 2020 | $5M Series A | Richard Wong | AMR Awadallah, JIM Payne | Announced |
| Jun 6, 2016 | $1.7M Seed | Accel | AMR Awadallah, JIM Payne | Announced |
| Jul 10, 2013 | $150K Seed | Flat6Labs | — | Announced |
