10th February 2026, Bengaluru / Delaware: We are happy to share that BotGauge AI has raised $2 million in funding, led by Surface Ventures (New York), with participation from IA Seed Ventures (Berkeley) and Saka Ventures (New York).
This funding marks a key step forward in our mission to transform how engineering teams deliver quality software. BotGauge AI was created to solve one of the biggest challenges in modern development: quality assurance that can keep pace with rapid code creation and deployment.
State of Today’s Engineering Teams
AI-native software development has dramatically accelerated how software gets built. Code is generated, iterated, and deployed at unprecedented speed.
But QA has not kept up with that pace. Traditional testing processes struggle to cover the scope and scale of modern development cycles. That gap leads to bugs in production, higher costs after release, and slower iteration cycles.
BotGauge AI was built for this moment to bring autonomous, scalable QA into everyday engineering workflows and make quality a predictable outcome instead of a manual bottleneck.
What BotGauge AI Does
BotGauge AI is a fully-managed Autonomous QA partner that delivers measurable quality outcomes. Instead of giving teams another testing tool to configure and maintain, it owns software quality outcomes from end to end.
How BotGauge AI works
1. Identifies What Needs to Be Tested: Our AI testing agents analyze your application, user flows, APIs, and release changes to determine testing requirements automatically.
2. Generates and Maintains Test Coverage: It creates comprehensive end-to-end tests and continuously updates them as your product evolves. There are no brittle scripts or manual rewrites with every release.
3. Executes Tests at Scale: Tests run across the QA lifecycle and are integrated into CI/CD workflows.
4. Validates with QA Experts: It combines AI agents with in-house QA domain experts to ensure coverage quality, edge-case handling, and production readiness.
With BotGauge AI, engineering teams spend less time managing tests and more time building products their customers love.
We own end-to-end execution, coverage, and release reliability.
From Vision to Early Impact
We have already seen strong early validation with customers including Sully.AI, OroLabs, Kitsa, and Ripple. The impact:
- 80% faster testing coverage
- 75% reduction in production bugs
- Up to 50% shorter release cycles
- No expansion of QA headcount required
These results show what autonomous testing can deliver in real-world development environments.
Why Our Investors Believe
As Gyan Kapur, Co-Managing Partner at Surface Ventures, shared:
“Building autonomous QA for a diverse customer base requires solving complex organizational and technical problems. The BotGauge AI team has the background, intellect, and discipline to solve these problems over time. As a result, we are excited to partner with BotGauge AI as they redefine QA.”
Their conviction reflects what we have known from day one: this is a deep technical problem, and we are uniquely positioned to solve it.
Our Founding DNA
BotGauge AI was founded by Pramin Pradeep, Naresh Kumar Rajendran, Vivek Nair, and Sreepad Krishnan Mavila, who bring over a decade of experience in AI-driven test automation and enterprise QA transformation.
Our collective expertise spans:
- AI-powered automation systems
- Enterprise-scale QA modernization
- Deep engineering architecture
- Product-led execution
We are not incrementally improving QA. We are rebuilding it as core infrastructure for modern software development.
What This Funding Enables
Over the next 12–24 months, this capital will allow us to:
- Expand R&D and strengthen our autonomous agents
- Hire across engineering, product, and AI
- Scale across the U.S. and key global markets
- Evolve from early adoption to enterprise-grade production scale
This is the stage where we turn early traction into category leadership.
The Bigger Vision
We believe the future of software development looks like this:
- Engineers move fast
- AI accelerates creation
- Quality operates autonomously
- Releases ship with built-in reliability
Autonomous QA won’t be optional, but it will be foundational.
This funding accelerates our mission to make BotGauge AI the unbreakable quality layer for ambitious software organizations.
We would like to thank our customers, team, and partners for their continued support and commitment as we build and grow. The journey ahead is even more exciting!