Testkube, the Continuous Testing Platform, raised an $8 million Series A funding round led by existing investors Ratmir Timashev, co-founder of Veeam Software, and global software investor Insight Partners. The new round underscores a growing recognition that while AI has supercharged the speed of software development, software quality has not kept pace.
Testkube started as an open-source project enabling users to leverage existing on-prem infrastructure and to make running tests less of a headache. Developers and platform engineers quickly adopted the platform for its ability to solve real problems quickly, and since then, Testkube Control Plane and its open-source agent have grown into a full enterprise platform. To date, the company has powered over 100 million automated tests for organizations ranging from fast-growing startups to enterprises like Cloudflare, Siemens, Adobe, and Volvo.
“AI is rewriting the rules of software development, yet it also makes testing significantly harder,” said Dmitry Fonarev, CEO of Testkube. “Traditional testing and CI/CD tools weren’t built for AI-driven or cloud-native scale. Testkube gives developers and platform teams the confidence to ship fast without sacrificing reliability – because untested software is unsafe software.”
Seed investors who backed Testkube’s vision at inception formally participated in this round, reinforcing their early conviction in the company’s approach. Their reinvestment also reflects the pressing need for tooling that ensures reliability as AI reshapes the pace of development. Testkube’s customer base includes financial services, healthcare, tech, government and more, demonstrating the widespread need to automate testing at scale.
With Testkube.io, companies can synchronize their testing tools and strategies – from API to End-to-End, load, security, and AI-behavior testing – directly into Kubernetes-native workflows. The result is continuous testing at scale, with full visibility and control across teams, environments, microservices, and CI/CD pipelines. Testkube can orchestrate testing tools or frameworks, including Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, k6, and Postman, to name a few, into heterogeneous, scalable, optimized workflows.
“AI doesn’t just change what we build – it changes how we build. Development is becoming more autonomous, code is being generated by machines, and decisions are happening faster than humans can follow,” added Ole Lensmar, Testkube CTO and co-founder. “That makes continuous testing the ultimate safety net. Testkube is the layer that can help ensure every change, human or AI-generated, is tested before it reaches production.”
“Cloud-native development and AI have changed the tempo of software creation,” said Mike Triplett, Managing Director at Insight Partners. “Testkube is addressing the next big bottleneck, helping ensure that testing keeps up with AI’s acceleration.”
Testkube is also actively integrating AI into its capabilities like intelligent test orchestration (deciding on which tests to run when), automated remediation (suggesting fixes for failed tests), and adaptive performance testing (adjusting load configurations based on desired and actual outcomes), which help teams ship faster and more confidently. “AI is great at creating velocity, but without scalable quality, it’s a false sense of progress,” said Timashev. “Testkube ensures the gains from AI don’t come at the cost of reliability.”
Founded in 2023 as a spin-off from Kubeshop, Testkube is focused on solving challenges teams face when scaling software test automation – by giving teams speed, flexibility, and control without forcing them to abandon their existing tools. Learn more about Testkube.io