Autify.

Software testing is the checkpoint between writing code and shipping it. Teams write automated tests so a computer, not a person, can confirm that logging in still works, the checkout still charges the right amount, and yesterday's fix did not break last week's feature. The trouble is that these tests are brittle. Change a button, rename a field, redesign a page - and the tests snap. Industry surveys have long put test maintenance among the top reasons automation projects get abandoned altogether.

Autify attacks that maintenance problem directly. Its tests are designed to self-heal: when the application's interface shifts, the platform's AI recognizes the element that moved and updates the test rather than failing it. That single idea - tests that adapt instead of break - is the thread running through everything the company has built since.

AI is not here to replace humans. It's here to enhance human capability so that we can be more creative. Ryo Chikazawa, Co-Founder & CEO

The newer generation of products pushes further up the workflow. Instead of recording a human clicking through an app, Autify Genesis reads the product requirement documents, source code, and design files a team already has - in tools like Jira and Figma - and generates the test cases itself. Autify says it used Genesis on its own product and cut internal test-case creation time by 55 percent. It is the kind of number that only means something when a company is willing to run its own tool on itself. Autify does.

Autify sells to engineering and quality-assurance teams as a B2B software subscription. Its customer list reads like a tour of Japan's internet economy - DeNA, NEC, NTT Smart Connect, Yahoo, and ZOZO among them, alongside global names such as investor-relations platform Q4. By 2020, more than 200 companies had adopted the no-code product.

The value proposition is measured in hours. Autify frames testing as repetitive work that drains engineering time, and its pricing follows the logic of hours saved rather than seats filled. Beyond the core platform, the company runs a certification program to formalize test-automation skills - a modest but telling move for a vendor that wants testing treated as a discipline, not an afterthought.

The 2024 Series B carried a strategic wrinkle. LG Technology Ventures, the Silicon Valley arm of the LG Group, joined Tokyo's Globis Capital Partners in leading the round - and with it came a path into the Korean enterprise market via LG CNS. Repeat backers Salesforce Ventures, WiL, Archetype Ventures and Uncorrelated Ventures returned. Counting all rounds, Autify has raised roughly $29 to $32 million.

Ryo Chikazawa, the co-founder and CEO, spent more than a decade writing software across Japan, Singapore, and San Francisco before building a company to test it. He leads a roughly 92-person, remote-friendly team split across the US and Japan, with a leadership bench that includes VP of Revenue Takayuki Shimizu, VP of Engineering Thomas Santonja, and VP of Finance Chiharu Goto.

The stated purpose - "enhance people's creativity through technology" - is more than a slogan for a testing company. The whole product philosophy is that machines should take the repetitive verification work so engineers can spend their hours on the parts of building software that actually require judgment. Security discipline backs the ideals: Autify earned SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO/IEC 27001 certification before chasing scale, the unglamorous groundwork that unlocks large-enterprise deals.