There’s something about watching engineering teams scramble egg tests together at 3 a.m. just to ship a “minor” update. And by poetic, I mean the kind of tragic haiku that ends with prod going sideways and Slack going nuclear. Skyramp didn’t just see that pain, they lived it. And instead of churning out another “AI wrapper for testing,” they built a rocket.
Headquartered in San Francisco and born in the crucible of flaky pipelines and test suite chaos, Skyramp just dropped the kind of announcement that should have every DevOps leader paying attention. $10 million in seed funding, led by Sequoia Capital, with Shaun Maguire and Lauren Reeder doubling down as returning investors. It’s the type of confidence that doesn’t come from a pitch deck, it comes from shipping something the big dogs actually use. Think Box, Broadcom, Cisco, Intel, and MongoDB, not logo-chasing, but early design partners pressure-testing this thing from stealth to seed.
Co-founders Nithin Michael and Jacob Poye didn’t stumble into this. Michael, a Ph.D. from Cornell and former Director of Engineering at VMware, helped scale Mode.net before VMware acquired it. Poye, ex-Caffeine and Earnin, understands developer infrastructure like it’s a second language. Their shared frustration with fragile, non-deterministic testing logic became the blueprint for something tighter, something that doesn’t guess at quality, but proves it. That’s Skyramp’s edge: real, local-first, deterministic AI. No “maybe” tests. No phantom LLM outputs. Just code that holds the line.
By the time most companies are still perfecting their onboarding flow, Skyramp had 10 enterprise design partners in stealth. Their CLI and autonomous agent now generate and run full-stack functional, performance, API, and UI tests with zero setup. Native CI/CD plugins? Check. Support for every serious test framework, JUnit, Pytest, Playwright? Done. This isn’t automation theater. It’s infrastructure-aware, parallelized, and ready to scale before your CTO finishes coffee.
This round isn’t fuel for a runway, it’s gas for expansion. Nithin Michael and Jacob Poye are scaling the team, hardening security for regulated environments, and going global. Skyramp’s targeting enterprise DevOps teams using AI-generated code and battling brittle QA. The 2025 global software testing market is $57.95 billion. Skyramp’s not nibbling at it, they’re carving their initials into it.
The name says it all. This isn’t a detour. It’s the ramp. And if your tests can’t survive lift-off, maybe it’s time to find a better launch pad.
