Stockholm-based AI company QA.tech has secured €3M in a seed round of funding, just six months following its $1M pre-seed round.
The current investment was led by British venture capital firm PROfounders, accompanied by Amsterdam’s Curiosity and Nordic’s byFounders.
The round also saw investment from angel investors including Mads Johnsen (former product manager at Calm), Jon Åslund (one of Spotify’s initial developers), Robert Lagerström (professor at Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and founder of Foreseeti, acquired by Google), Sven Perkmann (co-founder and CTO at Anyfin), and Jens Saltin (Flat Capital, former UK country manager at Klarna).
Joe Bond, a partner at PROfounders, says, “Testing has long been a bane for developers, who up until now have either tested with code, which is slow to write and costly to maintain, or resort to manual testing, which is unscalable and human error-prone.”
“QA.tech’s autonomous agents bring a novel approach that we believe has the potential to fundamentally transform the speed and capability of testing, providing a glimpse into what the future of programming will look like.”
“We’re excited to be partnering with Daniel, Patrick, Ville, Marcus, and the whole team at QA.tech to support them in making this future a reality.”
Capital utilisation
The funds will help QA.tech continue its product development and expand its current team of 11 people.
Daniel Mauno Pettersson, CEO of QA.tech, says, “We have been making huge strides in our product development, but our ambition for this product has also been growing, which is why we are raising more capital just six months after our pre-seed.
“It’s great to welcome these impressive investors who see the same incredible potential in the product as we do.”
Replacing manual software testing
Founded in 2023 by seasoned entrepreneurs Daniel Mauno Pettersson, Patrick Lef, Marcus Carloni and Vilhelm von Ehrenheim, QA.tech specialises in developing an AI-based testing tool for applications and SaaS services.
The company’s platform automates Quality Assurance (QA) tests, which traditionally require “significant” manual effort, such as testing website functions like login, account creation, and shopping cart functionality.
“At QA.tech, our goal is to not just keep pace with the future but to actively shape it. By integrating AI into QA, we aim to set new standards for what is possible in software development,” says the company.
QA.tech’s solution targets companies that aim to streamline their QA processes or those that lack QA testers altogether.
Nearly 40 customers, including Leya, Upsales, Virtusize, and Shoplab, are using QA.tech’s beta version. A public release is anticipated after the summer.
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