--- title: "cy.blog()" url: "https://www.cypress.io/blog/author/drew" description: "Read every Cypress blog post by Drew Lanham, newest first, from testing techniques to Cypress product news." --- # cy.blog() Releases, AI-assisted testing, and quality guides from the Cypress team. See what changed, whether it affects you, and how teams ship with confidence. ## Articles written by Drew Lanham [Welcome Max Schireson, Former MongoDB CEO, to the Cypress Board of Directors We are excited to welcome Max Schireson to the Cypress board of directors. Max brings a wealth of experience and expertise in the technology industry to Cypress and is a valuable addition to the board. Max is a seasoned technology executive with more than 20 years of experience in the industry and is currently an Operating Partner at Battery Ventures, an investor in Cypress.io. Previously, Max was the CEO of MongoDB, the leading open-source database company. Under his leadership, MongoDB grew i Read more](/blog/cypress-io-announces-the-appointment-of-new-board-member-former-mongodb-ceo-max-schireson) [Cypress raises $40M Series B round led by OpenView On Wednesday, we announced a $40M Series B round of funding led by OpenView Venture Partners. Read more](/blog/cypress-raises-40m-series-b-round-led-by-openview) [Cypress is one of the "20 Rising Stars" in the Forbes Cloud 100 List! The Cypress team is thrilled to announce that we've been named one of the 20 Rising Stars as part of the Forbes 2019 Cloud 100 list, the definitive list of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world, published by Forbes \[https://www.forbes.com/\] in partnership with Bessemer Venture Partners \[https://www.bvp.com/\] and Salesforce Ventures \[https://www.salesforce.com/company/ventures/\]. The 20 Rising Stars represent young, high-growth and category-leading cloud companies who have raised up to Read more](/blog/cypress-io-is-named-one-of-the-20-rising-stars-in-forbes-cloud-100) [We’ve raised $9.3 million in our Series A round! Today we’re thrilled to announce that Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) has led our Series A funding. Since we first met Mike Droesch \[https://www.bvp.com/team/mike-droesch/\], Bob Goodman \[https://www.bvp.com/team/bob-goodman/\] and read Bessemer’s 8 Laws of Developer Platforms \[https://www.bvp.com/atlas/developer-laws-2019/?from=feature\], we knew their understanding of developer centric businesses, combined with their history of investing in great companies like Twilio, PagerDuty, NPM, HashiCorp Read more](/blog/weve-raised-9-3-million-in-our-series-a-round) [Jason Warner, SVP of Technology at Github, Joins the Cypress.io Board of Directors Please welcome Jason Warner \[https://twitter.com/jasoncwarner\] to the Cypress family! He joins us as our first independent Board member - we're looking forward to tapping into his deep background creating some of the industry's best developer tools and services. Jason Warner, SVP of Technology at GithubFew people know how to create products that developers love better than Jason. In addition to a history of building fantastic products, he has an unparalleled depth of experience in aligning th Read more](/blog/jason-warner-svp-of-github-joins-the-cypress-io-board-of-directors) [Welcome Adam Gross, former Heroku CEO, to the Cypress.io Family We’re excited to welcome Adam Gross \[https://twitter.com/adam_g\] to the Cypress family as an investor and our first independent Board advisor. As the former CEO of platform-as-a-service provider Heroku, Adam brings a deep knowledge of the developers tools market, along with a clear understanding of how to successfully transform a developer tool into an enterprise platform. Adam Gross, former CEO of HerokuPrior to Heroku, Adam co-founded and led CloudConnect, which was purchased by Heroku in 20 Read more](/blog/welcoming-adam-gross-former-heroku-ceo-to-the-cypress-io-family) [Meet our new VP of Marketing: Steven Yi Cypress is pleased to announce, Steven Yi \[https://www.linkedin.com/in/steveyiwa/\] has joined Cypress.io as our vice president of marketing. In addition to his experience in developer evangelism and product marketing, he spent the first seven years of his career as a developer, working on large web e-commerce systems and enterprise integrations. Throughout his career he’s used several languages and platforms: Node.js, TypeScript and Express for web API and server-side execution, Python/Django, C Read more](/blog/our-new-vp-of-marketing-steven-yi) [$4 million more means more features and jobs It’s a big day for Cypress. We are going to take a brief break from our scheduled programming to announce that Cypress has raised $4 million, co-led by Las Olas Venture Capital \[http://www.lasolasvc.com/\] and Bessemer Venture Partners \[https://www.bvp.com/\]. The full press release is here \[https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180626005183/en/Cypress.io-Raises-4-Million-Front-Automated-Testing\] . If you are currently one of our amazing users or if you have been considering trying Cypress, Read more](/blog/4-million-more-means-more-features-and-jobs)