Product demos get all the attention, but software development more often involves things like debugging, quality assurance and testing. It\u2019s the dull but critical work that keeps software running the way it should, and as developers look to automate more of their workloads, it\u2019s increasingly being done by AI.<\/p>\n
On Monday, the AI testing startup Momentic said it had raised $15 million in a Series A round led by Standard Capital, with participation from Dropbox Ventures. Existing investors at Y Combinator, FCVC, Transpose Platform and Karman Ventures also participated in the round. The new funding builds on a $3.7 million seed round, which the company announced in March<\/a>.<\/p>\n Momentic makes tools for software testing and verification, a niche currently occupied by open-source frameworks like Playwright and Selenium. Those tools offer complex, fine-grained controls, but Momentic is counting on AI to make the process simple and effective.<\/p>\n \u201cWe help our customers make sure their product works,\u201d co-founder Wei-Wei Wu said. \u201cThey can describe their critical user flows in plain English and our AI will automate it.\u201d<\/p>\n Wu and his co-founder Jeff An both have backgrounds in developer tooling at companies like Qualtrics and WeWork. (Wu is particularly proud of his contributions to the open-source Node.js.) <\/p>\n The biggest constant for all those companies, as Wu saw it, was the problem of verifying code. \u201cTesting has been the biggest pain point for every team I\u2019ve ever worked with,\u201d Wu told TechCrunch.<\/p>\n Momentic\u2019s AI-driven approach has already won over a number of clients. The company currently boasts 2,600 users across its customer base, which includes companies like Notion, Xero, Bilt, Webflow and Retool. Wu was coy about revenue and profitability figures, but says the product has shown enough growth to convince investors.<\/p>\n Techcrunch event<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSan Francisco Notably, automating tests makes them much easier to perform at scale, and has the potential to drive up the total volume to levels that would previously have been impossible. Wu estimates that, in the last month, the company automated more than 200 million test steps.<\/p>\n The company\u2019s biggest competitor may be the foundation models themselves. Both OpenAI<\/a> and Anthropic<\/a> offer tutorials on agentic testing, building on their models\u2019 growing computer use capabilities. As those models grow more sophisticated, the opportunity for enterprise SaaS companies like Momentic could narrow.<\/p>\n For now, Wu is focused on fleshing out his product with the new funding. The company launched support for mobile environments in August, and is hoping to build more sophisticated test-case management once it has a few more engineers on board. <\/p>\n As Wu sees it, the rise of automated coding will produce a lot of new apps \u2014 and a lot more demands for products like his. \u201cAll of these apps need testing,\u201d he said. \u201cThey care about quality, and we\u2019re going to provide it for them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Product demos get all the attention, but software development more often involves things like debugging, quality assurance and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-150509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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