Donobu
Artificial Intelligence · AI Agents
Overview
AI runs the tests. We own the quality. Donobu tests every release, every locale, every page of your product, so shipping fast never means shipping broken.
Funding and backers
Total raised
$54k
1 round on record
Latest round
$54k
Venture round · Nov 2024 · 23 mo ago
The money's age
Due for its next round
23 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
0/100
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Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Nov 13, 2024
Raised a round Venture round $54k · SEC Form D
Oct 9, 2024
Launched on Hacker News Show HN: Donobu – Mac App for Web Automation and Testing
2024
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Nov 2024 | $54k | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Donobu, Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Vasusen PatilExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Justin FraizeExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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Visa sponsorship
1
H-1B filings in 12 months
$163k
Median offered salary
0
Open roles in United States
Who they sponsor
Computer and information systems managers
1
In the register as Donobu, Inc., Redwood City, CA
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US Department of Labor · latest filing Sep 30, 2025 · Visa details by country
Financials
Total raised
$54k
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2024 | $54k | Details |
People
Vasusen Patil
Executive Officer, Director
Justin Fraize
Executive Officer, Director
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News
Failing Tests Now Arrive as a Pull Request
When a test breaks in CI, Donobu's heal agent finds out why, fixes stale tests, proves the fix with a re-run, and hands you a pull request to review.
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Finding the English Hiding in Your French
Language detection cannot catch a two-word untranslated button. Comparing against the base rendering can. A tour of Donobu's localization checks: locale sweeps, format rules, pseudo-locale, and CI gates.
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The Tedious 90% of Localization QA
Localization QA is two jobs wearing one name. AI agents are better than humans at the repetitive 90%. Here is why, and what the other 10% still needs people for.
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Test Cases That Link Themselves
A test case tracker where the case ID doubles as a Playwright tag. Tag a test with @checkout-guest and coverage, pass rates, and tickets line up on their own. Now in beta.
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The New Donobu Dashboard: Built Around Test Runs
Sign in from Donobu Studio and every test run syncs to one shared dashboard: pass rate, flaky tests, what broke since the last run, and a run page your whole team can read.
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The Gherkin Lurking Inside Playwright
BDD promised tests you could read aloud. Step definitions broke that promise. page.ai.within() revives it inside Playwright, with an evidence boundary that kills the false green.
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The 4-Hour Localization Regression
Crowd-testing a product across languages takes about five weeks and only samples what testers happen to pick up. Here is what checking every page in four hours looks like instead.
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A Free UX Check for Your Website
Paste a URL and get a free UX report on your homepage and key pages: broken images, layout problems, and issues specific to your kind of site. Reviewed by a human before it reaches you.
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How Self-Healing Tests Actually Work
When your test hits a minor roadblock, it shouldn't panic - it should reroute. Here's how self-healing tests recover intelligently when possible and fail clearly when they can't.
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Redwood City
United States
HQ