Zurich's Klarent raises €7.13M to scale agentic software testing
What's the deal? KlarentDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, a Zurich-based autonomous software testing startup formerly known as fore aiDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, has raised €7.13 million in a seed round. London's Mosaic VenturesDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → led, with Moonfire VenturesDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → and angels including former Google director Jürgen Galler, Harris BartonDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, and AngelInvest Ventures joining.
What's the endgame? Founded in 2023 by ex-Google engineers Asheem Panakkat (chief executive officer) and Momchil Ivanov (chief technology officer), Klarent uses AI to write tests but not to run them. Its agents author test code with large language models (LLMs), then execute it in a deterministic, repeatable way, with a human-in-the-loop layer so clients pay only for verified outcomes.
Why now? The founders argue that AI is generating code faster than firms can verify it. "As AI writes more of the world's code, testing stops being a cost centre and becomes the thing that determines whether any of that code can be trusted," Panakkat said.
Who's using it? Enterprise clients already include JD SportsDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, Swiss media group NZZDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, and mobility firm Sixt. At JD Sports, Klarent's agents automate multi-system workflows across the e-commerce pipeline — work the retailer said its own teams could not replicate.
Where's the money going? Klarent will use the funds to enter the United States, building on its European traction. It also plans to grow its engineering team, broaden testing across web and mobile, and push into financial services, where a broken software release can prove costly.
By the numbers: The round sits in the 96th percentile for seed deals in Switzerland's enterprise software sector, against a sample of 302 comparable rounds — a sizeable raise at this stage.
The signal: Mosaic's Chandar Lal framed the bet plainly: "With AI, code generation is scaling faster than our ability to test it, so QA will become the key bottleneck." As coding agents multiply, investors are backing the tooling that keeps their output honest.
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