Momentic has just raised $15 million to automate software testing using AI.

And as someone who has a software company AI box, testing is a massive pain point when it comes

to pushing updates.

Sometimes you'll have a perfectly working piece of software or tool.

You'll do a bunch of updates to add a new feature.

And it just for some reason goes and breaks another feature, another element, something that you weren't expecting or something that you write. You weren't expected for people to click on a certain way or behave in a certain way. And it breaks things. There's a bug. There's a glitch. You got to go fix it. It's a big headache. And so software testing is a really big industry. It's obviously very

important. There's many people that it's their job to test software. More and more people are

finding ways to write automations that can do a lot of it automatically. But companies that are

able to go and do this from scratch using AI are incredibly valuable. And that is what Momentic is attempting to do. So today on the show, I want to cover what they're doing, why they're different, how they are able to raise $15 million. But before we do that, if you want to try any of the AI models I talk about on the show here and you don't want to have to pay subscriptions every single time you want to try a new AI company, go check out AIbox. AI. That's own software startup. And you get access to over 40 of the top AI models. We're adding new ones all the time in text, image, audio. You get all of the best models. And the cool thing is you can chat with Claude and chat GPT and Gemini all in the same thread. You can also compare the responses side by side. So you could get it to regenerate the same response, but with different models and see which one you like the best. It's super useful, and I hope it saves you a ton of money. It's only $20 a month to get access to all of them. I'll leave a link in the description. Okay, let's talk about what Momentic is doing. Right now, I think product demos, they get a lot of attention, but software development

more often is, you know, doing the hard things, debugging, quality assurance, testing. It's not

super glamorous, but it is really important work that basically keeps software running the way it

should. And increasingly, it's being done by AI. And I think this is something that no one is

shocked about. I, for one,

think it's a great use of AI. Recently, AI testing startup Momentic, like I mentioned, they raised

their $15 million. This is their series A round, and it was led by standard capital. They also had a bunch

of other players coming in the round, including Dropbox Ventures. They had some existing

investors at Y Combinator, FCVC, transpose platform, and Carmen Ventures were also all coming in.

All of this new funding is building on their $3.7 million seed round, which they did in March.

So they've raised a, you know, a lot of money, almost $19 million to date. And they make a lot of

different tools for software testing and verification. It's definitely a niche that is currently

occupied by a lot of open source frameworks. There's playwright, there's selenium. Those tools are

pretty complex, if I'm being honest. They do have fine-grained controls.

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