A year after emerging from stealth, Vienna, Va.-based Antithesis has raised $30 million in new funding led by Amplify Partners, as it advances an autonomous software-testing platform. Spark Capital, which has offices in New York and Boston, also participated.
Last year Antithesis ended a five-year period of flying below the radar with a funding announcement, raising $47 million in a seed round led by San Francisco-based Amplify Partners, Greenwich, Conn.-based Tamarack Global and Washington, D.C.-based First In Ventures.
Antithesis, co-founded by former Apple and Google engineer Will Wilson, claims a more effective way to identify and resolve bugs in software. It emerged from Wilson’s previous startup FoundationDB, which was acquired by Apple in 2015. The iPhone maker virtually abandoned a key technology called deterministic simulation testing that was part of FoundationDB, prompting Wilson to team up with his former boss — Dave Scherer, FoundationDB’s chief architect — and advance that technique via Antithesis.
‘Future of Software’
“Antithesis is the future of software development, and we’re delighted to see more and more different industries adopting our technology,” said Wilson, who serves as CEO of Antithesis. “We’ve built an incredible team here in Washington, D.C., and we are so excited to be expanding into Silicon Valley, opening up further market opportunities.”
Antithesis says its autonomous testing platform drastically increases the reliability of software, allowing organizations to innovate faster, and deliver a higher-quality product to customers. When integrated into a software development workflow, its platform scans code for bugs inside of a separate simulated environment, perfectly reproducing every bug it identifies while providing powerful debugging information. This eliminates the need to manually write and maintain tests and test cases, allowing engineers to focus their time on feature development.
Rapid Expansion
Over the past year, Antithesis said it has significantly increased its customer base, further penetrating the crypto and database industries. It also has entered new fintech, utilities, financial trading, travel/logistics, and data streaming markets. Antithesis also cited expansion on the West Coast, as its headcount jumped over 50%. The company expects to double that number in 2025.
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With its second funding announcement, Antithesis said Lenny Pruss of Amplify Partners had joined its board, while Clay Fisher of Spark Capital was named a board observer.
“Antithesis is one of the most important innovations in software development in recent decades,” said Pruss, general partner at Amplify Partners. Antithesis provides rigorous validation and is an “indispensable platform for deterministically uncovering bugs and ensuring the correctness of the software we deploy and depend upon,” he added.
Spark Capital’s general partner, Fisher, said Antithesis has developed “breakthrough, singular technology” that customers can use to ensure their software is “invincible. The company has seen explosive growth in its first year of availability, “earning the trust and devotion of leading enterprises who use Antithesis to make their most mission-critical operations reliable,” he added.
