Yesterday, Spur dropped a $4.5M seed round and barely blinked. Why? Because when you've built AI agents that can test a web app like a human, only faster, smarter, and without breaking under pressure, you don't need to shout. You just show up, solve real problems, and let the Fortune 500 come to you.
Founded in 2024 by Yale grads Sneha Sivakumar and Anushka Nijhawan, Spur didn't come to play nice with legacy QA frameworks. They came to replace them. No more brittle CSS selectors or tests that ghost you the second your UI changes. Spur's multimodal AI agents use vision-based interaction and natural language to run test flows the same way a user would, by seeing, not just reading the DOM like it's a poorly translated IKEA manual.
The seed round, led by First Round Capital with backing from Pear VC, Neo Ventures, Conviction VC, Liquid 2 Ventures, and Predictive Ventures Canada, is more than just a check. It's a signal. Y Combinator doubled down. Angel investors from Figma, OpenAI, and Dropbox signed on. When that many brains say, "These two are building the future of QA," you listen. Or you get left behind pushing Selenium scripts that flake out like bad high school friends.
Spur's traction already reads like a case study in efficiency. Wander juiced conversion rates by 23% after using Spur to polish their calendar UX. Norse Atlantic Airways tripled A/B velocity. Living Spaces wiped out flaky regressions in under a month. Over 30 enterprise clients are now deploying code 10X faster and catching seven-figure bugs before they ever touch a user's screen.
Let's be clear, this isn't just about better testing. It's about a smarter web. Spur lets teams upload a walkthrough or drop a few English sentences, and boom, test suite ready. It heals itself, speaks 36 languages, and slots straight into your CI/CD stack like it's been there the whole time. It doesn't just adapt to change; it expects it.
Sneha brings product instincts from Figma and Snap. Anushka brings AI muscle from DeepMind and Meta. Together, they built something with academic rigor and industry grit. From an NLP lab at Yale to a bicoastal operation in NYC and SF, Spur isn't a startup chasing trends, it's a company fixing a billion-dollar blind spot in enterprise software.
The road ahead? AI personas for accessibility testing, validation tools for generativeUX, and LLMs that patch bugs before you even know they exist. If you're in e-comm, SaaS, or travel and still testing like it's 2013, you might want to Spur yourself into the now.
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