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Applause, Inc.

Type	Private
Industry	Software Testing Crowdsourcing Software Quality Assurance
Founded	August, 2007
Headquarters	Framingham, Massachusetts
Key people	Doron Reuveni, CEO and Co-founder Thom Kenney, CTO Chris Malone, CFO Roy Solomon, VP Product Management and Co-Founder Tom Bonos, Senior VP Global Sales John Montgomery, Senior VP, Operations Rahul Shah, Senior VP Global Delivery & Customer Service Jan Wolter, General Manager, Applause EU Michael Weinberg, VP & General Manager, Applause Israel
Number of employees	301 FTE
Website	http://www.applause.com/

Applause App Quality, Inc. is a venture-funded company that tests software and conducts usability feedback research.

The company's headquarters are located in Framingham, Massachusetts. It has additional U.S. locations in San Mateo, California and Seattle, Washington. Its European headquarters are located in Berlin, and it has additional offices in Poland and Israel.

The company was originally incorporated under the name uTest in August 2007 by founders Doron Reuveni and Roy Solomon with $2.3M in seed funding from Mesco Ltd. and the Massachusetts Technology Development Corporation (MTDC).

Applause subsequently repurposed the uTest brand as a community of professional testers. Growing to more than 250,000 testers, uTest relaunched as a brand of Applause App. Quality, Inc. in 2015 with an updated site as a social network for software testers.

Applause provides testing services, usability feedback and research. Notable customers include Google, Fox Broadcasting, eBay, Concur and Runkeeper.