Momentic raises $3.7M to redefine software testing with AI

Momentic Inc., an artificial intelligence-powered testing and quality assurance platform for software developers, said today it has raised $3.7 million in seed funding.

FundersClub, General Catalyst, Y Combinator and AI Grant participated in the round alongside prominent angels including the Box Inc. co-founder and Chief Executive Aaron Levie and Richard Aberman, co-founder of WePay Inc. and JJ Fliegeman, co-founder of WayUp.

The software development lifecycle involves writing features and then testing them to make sure that they fit into the system, bugs haven’t been introduced and the result meets the requirements of users. Most testing involves laboriously building test scripts to evaluate and verify that a software application does what it’s supposed to do and uncover issues in functions, user interface and performance.

Momentic CEO Wei-Wei Wu (pictured, left) and Chief Technology Officer Jeff An (right) founded Momentic in late 2023 after experiencing the frustrations of maintaining test automation at large scale. The platform uses AI to assist web application software developers in creating their own tests by finding elements, reasoning about assertions and generating test cases on the fly.

As an AI-driven product, it allows software developers to describe what they want to test in plain English. The testing AI will then execute all the test instructions automatically directly in a web browser. It’s designed so that nontechnical users can easily activate and use the system and it includes a low-code editor so technical users can fine-tune tests to their liking.

However, it doesn’t stop there. According to Wu, what makes Momentic stand out among software testing solutions is the platform will maintain its tests and automatically change them to match updates to the software.

“Once you’ve built the test, I would say that’s just like one part of the problem — products evolve,” Wu told SiliconANGLE in an interview. “You want to ship product, but you don’t want to waste time maintaining your test scripts. With Momentic, since you’ve described your test with natural language intent, the test script can automatically evolve even as the application changes, as long as the intent stays the same.”

Rather than having to write complex scripts in a language such as Selenium, this reduces the long-term burden on software engineers to maintain them. According to Wu, this makes both test creation and maintenance more accessible and efficient for engineers.

Wu added that as a platform, Momentic helps bring quality assurance closer to the software engineer.

“The current status quo of QA is typically you have a separate team in an engineering organization that’s QA, or you outsource,” Wu said. “I’m an engineer, I build something and now I toss it over the wall to my QA counterpart for tests and then get my bug reports and it goes back and forth. This is very inefficient.”

According to the company, since it launched the product in 2024, customers have reported a 60% reduction in debugging time and a 30% reduction in test execution time. Momentic’s platform has been put to use by companies such as social question-and-answer website Quora Inc., low-code app builder Retool Inc., enterprise AI model performance management firm Fiddler Labs Inc. and generative AI research firm Runway AI Inc.

Wu said now that Momentic has this funding, the company intends to develop and expand the company’s AI testing solution, viewing the current browser-based capability as the initial stage of the company’s product development strategy. He emphasized that testing is a “giant umbrella” that the company intends to cover more comprehensively and that means building up the team and product offering to match.

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