The Swedish testing startup has secured seed funding to tackle the bottleneck in the CI pipeline in the era of AI-generated code. The wait has always been the bottleneck in code reviews, not the code itself. With test suites expanding alongside faster development cycles, engineering teams have increasingly faced CI pipelines that take twenty minutes or more to clear.
Stockholm-based Endform believes it has solved this issue, with a new €1.5 million in funding indicating investor confidence. The startup raised €1.5 million in a round co-led by Alliance VC, Antler, First Fellow Partners, and Greens Ventures, alongside strategic angel investors.
The funding will be used to expand the team and promote the adoption of Endform’s platform, which allows engineering organizations to run browser-based end-to-end tests much faster. Endform is built around Playwright, Microsoft’s open-source testing framework. It distributes each test to its cloud machine, enabling simultaneous execution of the entire test suite rather than sequential processing.
This approach reduces total testing time to the duration of the slowest test, fundamentally rethinking parallelization in continuous integration. Jakob Norlin, Endform’s co-founder, explains that as test suites grow, they can become a bottleneck hindering team efficiency. Endform decouples the number of tests from their runtime, letting developers focus on shipping code instead of waiting for pipelines.
The company, publicly launched in March 2025, has acquired customers in Sweden and the US. Among its prominent early adopters is Lovable, an AI-assisted coding platform and one of Europe’s fastest-growing software firms, backed by Antler, a leader in this funding round. According to an Endform case study, Lovable halved its Playwright suite runtime, tripled test coverage without increasing execution time, and now runs over 80,000 tests weekly.
Co-founder Oliver Stenbom, formerly of Mentimeter, speaks of the infrastructure demands from high-velocity engineering. This experience influences Endform’s design, meant to handle scale without custom parallelization solutions. The timing of this funding is logical given AI tools have accelerated software iteration, increasing code production and QA infrastructure demands. More code means more tests, and longer pipelines unless infrastructure scales.
Alliance VC, the lead investor, is a Nordic-focused firm supporting early-stage tech companies since the 2000s with offices in Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki, and Copenhagen. Greens Ventures, another participant, is a Stockholm-based entity backed by over fifty Spotify alumni, focusing on Nordic pre-seed startups by unicorn-stage company operators.
Endform charges on a pay-per-use basis, billing by minutes of actual test infrastructure used rather than flat fees, aligning platform costs with team efficiency.