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The Autonomous Software Testing Company Has Grown on All Fronts Since Launching Out of Stealth

VIENNA, Va., Feb. 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Antithesis, the autonomous software testing company, today marks its first year anniversary since launching out of stealth with the announcement of new funding and the expansion of its customer base, employee count, and board.

Antithesis has significantly increased its customer base in the last year, expanding its penetration into the crypto and database industries while entering new industries, including fintech, utilities, financial trading, travel/logistics, and data streaming. In response to growing demand for its pioneering software testing and debugging technology, the company, headquartered just outside Washington, D.C., has grown its headcount by over 50% and is set to double that in 2025. It has also expanded its footprint to the West Coast, with senior go-to-market and product hires in San Francisco, and plans to further build its presence there this year.

"Antithesis is the future of software development, and we're delighted to see more and more different industries adopting our technology," said Will Wilson, co-founder and 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 has also raised an additional $30 million in funding led by Amplify Partners, with participation from Spark Capital, and has added Lenny Pruss, General Partner at Amplify Partners, to its board of directors. Clay Fisher, General Partner - Growth at Spark Capital, has also joined as a board observer.

"Antithesis is one of the most important innovations in software development in recent decades," said Lenny Pruss, General Partner at Amplify Partners. "Particularly as we delegate more and more software creation to inherently probabilistic AI systems, the need for rigorous validation becomes paramount. Antithesis provides precisely that—an indispensable platform for deterministically uncovering bugs and ensuring the correctness of the software we deploy and depend upon."

"Antithesis has built breakthrough, singular technology," said Clay Fisher, General Partner - Growth at Spark Capital. "Customers using Antithesis can ensure their software is invincible and runs as expected before it enters production — an extraordinary value proposition. As a result, 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. Spark is excited to partner with the Antithesis team."

Antithesis's autonomous testing platform drastically increases the reliability of software. It allows organizations to innovate faster, deliver a higher-quality product to customers, and avoid potentially disastrous bug-related outages and disasters. Once integrated into a software development workflow, Antithesis scans code for bugs inside of a separate simulated environment and can perfectly reproduce every bug it finds 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.

This past year Antithesis has further matured its platform, increasing self-serve capabilities, incorporating a statistical debugging tool, and launching a paradigm-shifting Multiverse Debugger product that allows users to traverse and explore many branching timelines to find the root cause of even the trickiest bugs.

The company is celebrating software reliability innovations at its inaugural BugBash conference for industry leaders, taking place in Washington, D.C., on April 3-4, 2025.

About Antithesis
Antithesis is a first-of-its-kind continuous reliability platform that autonomously searches for software bugs in a fully deterministic simulated environment without impacting production systems. The company, which is based in Northern Virginia, was founded in 2018 and launched out of stealth in 2024. For more information, visit https://antithesis.com/.

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