Asheem Panakkat Co-founder and CEO of Klarent (formerly fore ai), an autonomous software-testing platform based in Zurich. Spent 12 years at Google, moving from hands-on engineering to leading teams on Google Shopping, Google Maps and Google Lens Education. Previously founded plxLabs. Klarent announced an $8M seed led by Mosaic Ventures on Oct 9, 2026.

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Asheem Panakkat Co-founder and CEO of Klarent (formerly fore ai), an autonomous software-testing platform based in Zurich. Spent 12 years at Google, moving from hands-on engineering to leading teams on Google Shopping, Google Maps and Google Lens Education. Previously founded plxLabs. Klarent announced an $8M seed led by Mosaic Ventures on Oct 9, 2026.

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Founder at Klarent from 2023-05 to Present in Zurich, SwitzerlandCo-founded Klarent (formerly fore ai), autonomous AI QA agents that write, run and maintain tests for web, iOS and Android apps. Raised an $8M seed led by Mosaic Ventures with Moonfire (Oct 2026).
Engineering Lead at Google until Present12 years at Google, from hands-on engineering to leading large-scale teams on Google Shopping, Google Maps and Google Lens Education.
Founder at plxLabs until Present
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Klarent Secures $8M Seed Funding Led by Mosaic Ventures

Klarent's seed announcement, with comments from Asheem on building deterministic QA for AI-written code.

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Code review is dying. Shift left won't save it.

Asheem Panakkat on why QA needs to shift out into an independent verification layer (Sept 16, 2026).

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Klarent

Agentic testing for web, iOS and Android.

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