Autify, an AI platform for quality engineering, announced that it has completed a Series B funding round of $13 million and launched a beta version of Zenes, an autonomous AI agent for software quality assurance. Leading the funding round are Globis Capital Partners (Tokyo-based VC firm) and LG Technology Ventures (the Silicon Valley-based venture capital arm of LG Group). Existing investors WiL (World Innovation Lab), Salesforce Ventures, Archetype Ventures, and Uncorrelated Ventures also joined the round.
Autify, utilizing the recent round of funding plans to expand into the Korean market and strengthen its collaboration with LG CNS, making Korea a market of focus along with existing core markets such as the US and Japan.
Autify supercharges developer and QA teams and optimizes the software quality engineering process. And the company aims to enhance people’s creativity through AI and technology. Since being founded in 2016, the company has gained a number of global enterprise customers in the B2C and B2B verticals, including DeNA, NEC, NTT Smart Communication, Yahoo, ZOZO, and Q4.
Zenes is an autonomous AI agent for software quality assurance, which is an AI QA engineer working for you. And it generates test cases by analyzing product requirement documents, writes automated test codes, and maintains the test codes automatically.
With this recent funding round, Autify plans to expand its capabilities to support code-based test automation and build a comprehensive Gen AI-based quality engineering platform featuring its newest product Zenes. And Autify has applied Zenes to its own QA process and successfully reduced the time spent creating test cases by 55%.
After users upload product requirement documents in any file format (.html, .pdf, .docx, .md, etc.), Zenes will generate a group of outlined test cases covering the product specs. Users can then edit these test cases to increase the accuracy of subsequent steps. And after any edits have been made Zenes then generates automated test codes, e.g. the test case steps in Gherkin format. Users can use generative AI-powered code completion within the product to edit this Gherkin output.
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“AI is poised to drastically improve productivity in the software development process. We believe that AI is not here to replace humans. It’s here to enhance human capability so that we can be more creative. The software development process and its quality assurance will be redefined with Generative AI, and we are thrilled to redesign this process with our AI-powered product suite.”
- Ryo Chikazawa, Autify’s co-founder & CEO
