The Swedish testing startup has secured seed funding to take on the CI pipeline bottleneck in the age of AI-generated code.
The code review has always had a bottleneck, not the code itself, but the wait. As test suites swell alongside faster development cycles, engineering teams have increasingly found themselves staring at CI pipelines that can take twenty minutes or more to clear.
Stockholm-based Endform thinks it has solved that problem, and a fresh €1.5 million in backing suggests investors agree.
The startup has raised €1.5 million in a round co-led by four investors: Alliance VC, Antler, First Fellow Partners, and Greens Ventures, with a group of strategic angels also participating.
The funding will go towards expanding the team and broadening adoption of Endform’s platform, which enables engineering organisations to run browser-based end-to-end tests dramatically faster.
Endform is built specifically around Playwright, the widely used open-source testing framework developed by Microsoft. The platform works by distributing each test to its own cloud machine, allowing an entire test suite to execute simultaneously rather than waiting in sequence.
The practical upshot is that a team’s total testing time collapses to roughly the duration of its single slowest test, a fundamental rethinking of how parallelisation can work in continuous integration.
Jakob Norlin, co-founder of Endform, framed the problem in commercial terms: as test suites grow, they can become a bottleneck that slows down the pace of engineering teams.
Endform addresses this, he says, by decoupling the number of tests from the time it takes to run them, allowing developers to focus on shipping code rather than waiting for pipelines to clear.
The company launched publicly in March 2025 and has since gained customers in Sweden and the United States. Among its most prominent early adopters is Lovable, the AI-assisted coding platform that has become one of Europe’s fastest-growing software companies, itself backed by Antler, which also leads this round.
According to Endform’s own case study, Lovable cut its Playwright suite runtime in half after adopting the platform, then tripled its test coverage while keeping execution time flat, and now runs more than 80,000 tests per week.
Co-founder Oliver Stenbom, who previously worked in infrastructure engineering at Mentimeter, a Swedish SaaS company that at its peak was shipping code up to eighty times a day, has spoken about the infrastructure demands that high-velocity engineering creates.
That experience sits visibly in the product’s DNA: Endform is designed to absorb scale without requiring teams to architect custom parallelisation solutions of their own.
The timing of the raise carries a certain logic. AI-assisted coding tools have accelerated the pace of software iteration across the industry, producing more code faster and pushing QA infrastructure to keep up.
The more code developers ship, the more tests they write; the more tests they write, the longer pipelines take, unless the underlying infrastructure scales accordingly.
Alliance VC, the lead investor, is a Nordic-focused firm that has backed early-stage technology companies since the 2000s, with offices across Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki, and Copenhagen.
Greens Ventures, another participant, is a Stockholm-based vehicle backed by over fifty Spotify alumni that focuses on Nordic pre-seed startups founded by operators from unicorn-stage companies.
Endform charges on a pay-per-use basis, billing by minutes of actual test infrastructure used rather than flat subscription fees, a model that, the company argues, creates alignment between platform cost and team efficiency.
