FA Company Spotlight: Spur
In software, speed wins, but only if quality keeps up. And quality? That’s the part most teams fake. Welcome to the world Spur is setting on fire.
Founded by Sneha Sivakumar and Anushka Nijhawan straight out of Yale, Spur isn’t some side hustle spun out of a dorm room. It’s a product of four years of calculated obsession, research at the Yale NLP Lab, backend builds at Snap and WhatsApp, applied AI work at DeepMind, and high-tempo growth experience from inside Figma. These aren’t résumé bullet points, they’re the source code of a new QA paradigm. Because for most teams, testing still means crossing your fingers and hoping the bugs don't find the demo.
Spur doesn’t automate testing. It ends the old model. With multi-modal agents that see and interact with the web like humans do, Spur’s platform lets anyone, from a PM to a backend dev, write tests in plain English. No code. No brittle selectors. No nightly failures. This isn’t QA-as-usual. It’s QA as it should’ve always been.
And it works. Wander overhauled their UX based on Spur’s findings, saw conversions jump 23% in a week. Norse Atlantic tripled their A/B velocity. LivingSpaces rebuilt their regression suite in under 30 days. Even Y Combinator uses Spur to test its famed application flow.
That traction earned Spur a $4.5 million seed round led by Liz Wessel at First Round Capital, with backing from Pear VC, Neo, Conviction, Y Combinator, and angels like Mihika Kapoor, Matt MacInnis, and Arash Ferdowsi. Because they all see what Sivakumar and Nijhawan have built, not just a better testing tool, but a new standard for software quality.
This isn’t just market timing, it’s market pressure. The test automation sector’s pushing toward $59.91 billion by 2029, but most teams are still stuck on frameworks that break every time a designer gets creative. Spur’s agents don’t flinch. They learn. They adapt. They reduce flakiness, skip the maintenance, and support complex workflows like they were born for it.
And they’re just getting started. Spur is hiring, Founding Engineers, GTM leads, people who want to help product teams move faster without sacrificing user trust. Not someday. Now.
https://www.spurtest.com/careers
If you’ve ever broken prod on a Friday and sworn it wouldn’t happen again, Spur is your redemption arc. Don’t just test software, trust it.
Let’s connect and keep the momentum going across the tech ecosystem. Whether you’re a founder shaping the future, a leader driving change, a VC backing bold ideas, or an investor spotting the next big thing, together, we’re pushing boundaries. Proud to be building the future with you.
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