- Walrus.ai is a new end-to-end testing company that announced it raised $4 million in a round of funding from Homebrew, Felicis Ventures, and Leadout Capital
Walrus.ai is a new end-to-end testing company that announced it raised $4 million in a round of funding from Homebrew, Felicis Ventures, and Leadout Capital, according to TechCrunch. And Walrus.ai co-founders Jake Marsh, Akshay Nathan, and Scott White launched the company with a goal of solving a problem with new business workflows — which is a lack of integration between disparate software silos.
Originally, Walrus.ai was going to be called Monolist. And the company’s idea was to aggregate tasks across tools into a single actionable list. But that model was not working.
After launching in 2018 and raising seed capital from Homebrew and Leadout Capital, the company started to hit walls with product development.
“There were various frameworks that would let you test your automation so that before you launch your software, you catch bugs… There were some code languages that exist that can help you do this, but they didn’t work for us at all,” said White in an interview with TechCrunch.
And the browser testing frameworks that the Walrus.ai founders were using had not kept up with the evolution of the software development industry and could not recreate the ways that users would interact with the platforms.
“The problem for engineers right now is that writing tests for your applications is hard because you have to write code and the frameworks are very inflexible and flaky,” White added via TechCrunch. “Engineers spend tons of time running tests and if those tests fail then your code would not get shipped so you have to debut all those tests.”
Walrus.ai is outsourced engineering through an API. The company understands how to do testing.
The company offers simple text descriptions of a planned user interface. And the company can run diagnostics on how effectively the code manages to execute its planned commands.
