# Gal Vered

> Gal Vered is the co-founder and CEO of Checksum.ai, a San Francisco startup that uses AI to automatically generate, run, and self-heal end-to-end software tests in Playwright and Cypress. A former Google product manager, Y Combinator-backed CTO, Kellogg MBA, and Israeli Navy officer, Vered is betting that as AI writes more of the world's code, the scarce and valuable skill becomes verification - proving the software actually works. Checksum sells testing as a result rather than a tool, generating 100-150 tests in a customer's first week and keeping them green as the product changes.

- **Role:** CEO and Co-Founder at Checksum.ai
- **Organizations:** Checksum.ai, superset, Google, SEER, Israeli Navy
- **Nationality:** Israeli
- **Education:** MBA, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads Checksum.ai, an AI-native end-to-end testing platform, Built a product that generates 100-150 tests in a customer's first week and maintains them automatically, Took Checksum onto the Google Cloud Marketplace after the Emerging Partner Springboard Program

## Career timeline

- **earlier** — Served as an officer in the Israeli Navy
- **2016-2018** — Earned an MBA at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management
- **post-MBA** — Product Manager at Google
- **later** — Chief Technology Officer at SEER, a Y Combinator-backed company
- **2022** — Co-founded Checksum.ai with backing from the superset startup studio; serves as CEO
- **2023** — Checksum raised a $750K seed round (latest funding dated Sept 2023)
- **2025** — Checksum.ai graduated from the Google Cloud Emerging Partner Springboard Program and launched on Google Cloud Marketplace

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads Checksum.ai, an AI-native end-to-end testing platform
- Built a product that generates 100-150 tests in a customer's first week and maintains them automatically
- Took Checksum onto the Google Cloud Marketplace after the Emerging Partner Springboard Program
- Former Product Manager at Google
- Former CTO of a Y Combinator-backed company (SEER)
- Israeli Navy officer; Kellogg MBA

## Latest updates

- **2025-02** — Published 'Building Smarter Developer AI Agents: QA Automation for Seamless Next-Gen Software Evolution' on The Test Tribe.
- **2025** — Checksum.ai graduated from Google Cloud's Emerging Partner Springboard Program and became available on Google Cloud Marketplace.

## Links

- Website: https://checksum.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gal-vered/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Guflp0X05Tc

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Last updated: 2026-06-24