Bird Eats Bug, the SaaS tool that helps companies save time troubleshooting technical issues and bugs, has raised €1.5M in a round led by venture capital firm Nauta Capital.

Bird Eats Bug has created a SaaS tool that allows even non-technical people to create comprehensive reports on bug data, which can save companies costly engineering time. As a user records the screen of the issue, the Bird Eats Bug browser extension automatically augments it with valuable technical data such as console logs, network errors, browser information, and more. Such reports allow software engineers to find the cause of the problem much faster and avoid unnecessary back-and-forth.

According to research from the University of Cambridge, developers spend half their time debugging bugs and errors. Bird Eats Bug is addressing the most time-consuming part of software development, which currently costs companies $312 billion per year.

Dan Makarov, co-founder and CEO of Bird Eats Bug, noted: “Having proven demand for the tool, we now want to focus on technology that will provide engineers with new ways to debug and allow testers or product managers to report issues without needing to reproduce them first. We will also be integrating the product with more issue trackers beyond those currently supported by Jira, Linear, and Trello to further reduce manual work.”

Prior to this investment, Bird Eats Bug was self-funded by its three co-founders: Francisco Lourenço (CTO), Jacky Chung (CPO), and Dan Makarov (CEO), who all come from product and technology backgrounds and have previously worked at companies such as Google, BCG Digital Ventures, and Rocket Internet.

The SaaS company was incorporated in 2020, and to date, more than 500 companies in the US and Europe have reported over €30,000.