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Digivante wants the bugs before your customers get them
The British testing company puts real people on real devices to find the faults that derail digital shopping. Its proposition: more eyes on a release, fewer surprises at checkout.
Linaro keeps good hardware from growing old
The Arm software specialist helps manufacturers escape ageing code and keep products useful. Now it is changing its own business model, pairing paid engineering with a free collaboration forum.
Gearset wants to end the Salesforce release-night shift
The Cambridge software company built its business on the awkward work of moving Salesforce changes into production. Now it wants an AI teammate to build those changes, too - with the same checks on the way out.
Beround Spent a Decade Hunting Software Bugs. Now It Wants to Fix AI Adoption Before the Tools Arrive
The Dutch consultancy built its reputation on the unglamorous discipline of testing. That same habit now powers a people-first AI playbook that starts small, measures what matters and leaves room for a human to say no.
Buildkite Put the Cloud in Charge - Then Refused to Put Your Code There
The Australian developer-tools company won demanding engineering teams with a split-the-stack model: Buildkite coordinates the work, while customers choose where it runs. Now it is trying to turn that architectural compromise into a broader software-delivery platform.
Rajeev Rai Built a Company Around the Work Everyone Notices Too Late
He sold sweaters at 11, learned quality inside Apple, and later made software testing the center of a cross-border company. His enduring product is less a test script than a way of treating engineers.
Nishant Hooda Applied to YC Four Times. Then He Made Software Testing Look at the Screen.
An AWS internship introduced him to his future co-founder. Four applications got them into Y Combinator. Now Docket is betting that the next generation of software tests will use the screen the way people do.
Gabriel Spencer-Harper Is Building a Safety Net for Software Written at Machine Speed
Before AI made code cheap, Gabriel Spencer-Harper was already obsessed with the expensive part: proving it works. His company, Meticulous, turns real user journeys into a living test suite - and a career of false starts into a sharp thesis about software's new bottleneck.
Meticulous Wants Your Users to Write the Tests - So Your Engineers Can Ship the Code
The old bargain was simple: write more tests or accept more bugs. Meticulous is betting that recorded behavior, deterministic browsers and a startling amount of parallel compute can break that bargain - just as AI agents make verification the slowest part of shipping software.
ASIR Technologies
The former Oracle engineers behind ASIR Technologies built a consulting business around the systems enterprises cannot easily replace. Now their no-code ACRA platform is trying to make those systems far less painful to test, connect and operate.
Arcsona
Arcsona spent years doing the unglamorous work of making enterprise CRM behave. Now the Campbell consultancy is turning what it learned into reusable Salesforce products - without abandoning the complicated implementations that built its name.
AppPerfect Corp
For more than two decades, AppPerfect has worked the unglamorous seam between a software demo and a dependable production system. Its bet is simple: test the failure, watch the machinery, and fix the bottleneck before users find it first.
Cyara
Cyara is a customer experience (CX) assurance software company whose automated platform tests and monitors contact center systems - IVRs, chatbots, voice, digital channels and, increasingly, AI agents - before and after they reach customers. Founded in Australia in 2006 and now headquartered in Texas, Cyara helps large enterprises catch defects in customer-facing systems early, cut manual testing, and keep voice and digital channels working across more than 100 countries.
Docket
Docket is a San Francisco AI QA testing platform that lets teams write end-to-end tests in plain English and keeps them running as the app changes. Instead of brittle CSS selectors, its multimodal agents look at the screen and click where a human would, recording pixel coordinates and self-healing when the UI shifts. Founded in 2025 by ex-Stripe and ex-Citadel engineers Nishant Hooda and Boris Skurikhin, Docket went through Y Combinator's Spring 2025 batch and covers web, mobile, and desktop apps.
Nine Fives
Nine Fives builds modern radio-frequency (RF) test equipment for manufacturers of wireless devices in cellphones, drones, and satellites. Founded by two former SpaceX engineers, the company replaces slow, driver-heavy legacy instruments with driverless, touchscreen, network-connected modules that share a single machine-readable API (REST and SCPI) and ship AI-readable documentation. The pitch: get RF test off the critical path and cut a hardware team's production-readiness timeline from months to minutes.
Ryo Chikazawa
Ryo Chikazawa is the co-founder and CEO of Autify, an AI-powered software testing automation company based in San Francisco and Tokyo. A software engineer who worked in Japan, Singapore, and the US, he kept running into the same problem everywhere: testing software takes too long. After eight pivots and interviewing 70+ prospects, he built Autify into a no-code test automation platform used by companies like Unity, DeNA, and ZOZO, raising roughly $32M through Series B and launching Autify Genesis, an autonomous AI testing agent.
Tony Sumpster
Tony Sumpster is the CEO of Provar, the Salesforce-focused test automation company, a role he took on in December 2024. A veteran enterprise-software leader with roughly 25 years across corporate, private equity, and venture-backed companies, he previously ran Worksoft and Data Intensity as CEO and led Hewlett Packard Enterprise's largest software business unit as SVP and GM. He is known for turning around and scaling technology organizations and for building teams around diversity, passion, ability, and belief.
Vu Lam
Vu Lam is the founder and CEO of Katalon, one of the world's most widely used software test automation platforms, trusted by more than 30,000 teams. A Vietnamese-American engineer who arrived in the United States as an 11-year-old refugee, he built a career at Bell Labs before founding a string of technology companies including KMS Technology, QASymphony, Kobiton and Grove HR. Katalon began as an internal productivity tool inside KMS Technology and grew into a standalone company that raised $27 million in Series A funding in 2021. Lam is known for championing quality-assurance professionals and pushing testing into the AI era.
Mobot
Mobot is a New York-based company that runs a fleet of real mechanical robots to test mobile apps on physical iOS and Android devices. Positioned as the first robot-powered QA-as-a-service platform, it uses computer vision and AI-guided robots - supervised by human QA experts - to automate the repetitive, human-like tests that emulators and software frameworks cannot reliably reproduce, such as push notifications, deep links, Bluetooth pairing, camera flows and multi-device interactions. Founded in 2018 by Eden Full Goh and launched publicly in 2022 with a $12.5M Series A, Mobot helps engineering and product teams cut manual testing hours, catch more bugs before app-store release, and ship faster.
Innominds
Innominds is an AI-first, platform-led digital transformation and full-cycle product engineering services company founded in 1998 and headquartered in San Jose, California. It helps global enterprises, software product companies (ISVs) and device makers design, build, test and modernize digital products across embedded devices, applications, data and AI, quality engineering, and cloud and DevOps - combining engineering services with in-house accelerators such as iFusion, Harmony and the connected-worker subsidiary Nymi.
Autify
Autify is an AI-powered software testing platform that lets engineering and QA teams create, run, and maintain automated tests without heavy scripting. Founded in 2016 by Ryo Chikazawa and Sam Yamashita, the company pairs no-code recording with autonomous AI agents that generate test cases from requirements, write test code, and self-heal tests when the underlying app changes. With offices in San Francisco and Tokyo, Autify serves web and mobile teams at companies like DeNA, NEC, Yahoo, and ZOZO, and has raised roughly $29-32M across seed, Series A, and a 2024 Series B.
CircleCI
CircleCI is a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform that automates the build, test, and deployment of software. Founded in San Francisco in 2011, it runs tens of millions of workflows for engineering teams who want faster, more reliable pipelines without maintaining their own build infrastructure. It does not host code or track tickets - it focuses on being a fast, dependable runner of builds and, increasingly, on validating AI-generated code at scale.
Katalon
Katalon is an Atlanta-based software company that builds an AI-augmented, all-in-one quality management platform for software testing. Its flagship products - Katalon Studio, TestOps, TestCloud, and the newer TrueTest - let QA and DevOps teams create, run, and analyze automated tests across web, mobile, API, and desktop applications with both low-code and full-code approaches. Spun out of KMS Technology, Katalon is used by more than 30,000 teams across 80+ countries and has repeatedly been named a G2 Leader in software testing.
Provar
Provar is a UK-founded software company that builds test automation and quality management tools purpose-built for the Salesforce ecosystem. Its low-code platform - anchored by Provar Automation and Provar Manager - lets both manual testers and developers create resilient, metadata-aware tests across UI, APIs and data layers that survive Salesforce's three-times-a-year release cadence. Founded in 2014 by veterans of highly regulated banking projects, Provar has grown into the category leader for Salesforce QA, and was first to market with automated end-to-end testing for Salesforce's Agentforce AI agents.
Pankaj Goel
Pankaj Goel is the co-founder and CEO of Opkey, a no-code, AI-driven test automation platform used by more than 250 enterprises to keep cloud ERP systems - Oracle, Workday, SAP, Salesforce, Coupa - from breaking on every quarterly update. He founded Opkey in 2016 after spending a decade running Crestech Software Systems, and before that worked on the automation teams behind Adobe InDesign and Illustrator. In August 2024 Opkey raised a $47M Series B led by PeakSpan Capital.
Checksum.ai
Checksum.ai is an AI software-testing company that automatically writes and maintains end-to-end tests for web applications. Its AI agents learn from real user sessions to generate production-ready Playwright and Cypress tests, then auto-heal them when the app changes - so engineering teams get broad test coverage in days instead of months and stop babysitting flaky test suites. Founded in 2022 and built inside the super{set} startup studio, the San Francisco company serves developers and QA teams who want to ship fast without breaking things.
Luzid
Luzid is a San Francisco-based startup building agentic AI for enterprise software implementations. Its AI agent, David, orchestrates every phase of SAP and Salesforce projects - capturing requirements from workshops, tracking scope in real time, and auto-generating test scripts. Founded in 2025 by Stanford grads Andres Carranza and Matheus Dias, Luzid targets the roughly 75% of implementation projects that run over budget or over time, and is used by SAP system integrators including Numen, delaware, NTT Data and Seidor.
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.
Perforce Software
Perforce Software builds the version control, DevOps, and quality tools that large engineering teams lean on when their codebases and binary assets grow too big for ordinary tools. Its flagship - Helix Core, rebranded P4 in 2025 - moves enormous game studios, semiconductor designers, automakers, and defense programs along, while a portfolio gathered through acquisitions (Puppet, Perfecto, Delphix, Klocwork, Gliffy and more) extends from source control into static analysis, test automation, infrastructure automation, and test data management. Founded in 1995 and now backed by Clearlake Capital and Francisco Partners, Perforce powers more than half of the Global 500.
QASource
QASource is a Silicon Valley-based software QA and testing company that gives engineering teams a full quality-assurance department without the cost and hassle of building one. Founded in 2000 by Rajeev Rai, the firm runs a hybrid onsite-offshore model - U.S. management and embedded QA engineers paired with technical talent in India and Mexico - delivering everything from manual, automation, performance and security testing to AI-augmented test automation, LLM evaluation, RLHF tuning, red teaming and RAG application testing. With roughly 1,400 professionals and a client roster spanning startups to Fortune 500 enterprises, QASource has built a reputation on a 95% customer-retention rate and two decades of steady double-digit growth.