Klarent Raises $8.1M Seed Led by Mosaic Ventures for AI Software Testing

Klarent, a Zurich-based startup building autonomous software testing tools, has raised €7.13 million, about $8.1 million, in a seed round led by London's Mosaic Ventures. Moonfire Ventures also invested, along with angels including former Google director Jürgen Galler, Harris Barton and AngelInvest Ventures.

The company, previously known as fore ai, was founded in 2023 by CEO Asheem Panakkat and CTO Momchil Ivanov. Panakkat spent more than a decade at Google leading teams on Shopping and Lens. Ivanov was a staff software engineer at Google focused on information retrieval.

What Klarent Does

Klarent uses AI agents to test software, but with a deliberate limit. Large language models are used only to write the test code. The tests themselves then run in a deterministic, repeatable way, avoiding the unpredictable results that come from letting an AI model click through an app on its own each time.

A human verification layer sits on top, and customers pay only for verified outcomes, a pricing model meant to tie Klarent's revenue directly to results.

The company already works with JD Sports, Swiss media group NZZ and mobility company Sixt. At JD Sports, Klarent's agents automate testing of workflows that span multiple systems across the retailer's e-commerce operation.

The QA Bottleneck

Klarent's pitch rests on a simple imbalance. AI coding tools now let engineering teams produce far more code than before, but checking that code still depends on slow, often manual quality assurance. Mosaic Ventures partner Chandar Lal has argued that testing will become the main constraint on software teams as code generation keeps accelerating.

Panakkat frames testing as the step that decides whether AI-written code can be trusted, rather than a cost to be minimized.

How the Money Will Be Used

The seed round will fund Klarent's entry into the US market, growth of its engineering team and wider testing coverage across web and mobile. The company also plans to target financial services, including banks and insurers, where software failures carry regulatory and financial risk. Dealroom reported the round at $8.1 million.

Why It Matters

AI-assisted coding has become one of the fastest-growing categories in enterprise software, and the tools that verify that code are emerging as the next opportunity. Klarent is betting that enterprises will pay for reliability, and that outcome-based pricing will set it apart from testing tools that bill by seat or by test run.

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EU-Startups — "Zurich's Klarent raises €7.13 million to scale its agentic software testing platform and expand into the US"