Approxima

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Your software should build itself.

Winter 2026Founded 20252 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA

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Autonomous Software DevelopmentSaaSSoftware engineering teams automating routine maintenance and incremental updatesHigh competition

Moat

End-to-end agent workflow: scope, code, validate in sandbox, merge to production reduces human-in-the-loop for routine work.

Key risk

GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude expanding code generation; low switching costs; quality/safety concerns on production merges.

Why now

AI coding agents maturing; developer time bottleneck on routine tasks; sandbox validation enabling safer automation.

Competitors

GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Replit, traditional CI/CD tools

About

Human-assisted development should be for novel ideation, not routine maintenance, bug fixes or incremental updates. Approxima is bringing you that future with agents that can scope work, code, validate their fixes end-to-end in sandbox environments and merge to production. Book a demo: https://calendly.com/ashish-selvaraj/approxima

From their website

as of Jun 7, 2026approxima.ai ↗

SaaS

Approxima provides AI-powered agents that automatically test every pull request by building in an isolated sandbox, running tests in a real browser, and reporting exact failures with screenshots. It integrates into CI/CD pipelines to automate visual and functional validation at PR level.

Integrates with CI/CD to deploy the app into an isolated sandbox, executes tests via AI agents in a real browser, captures and reports failures with screenshots, and surfaces precise issues observed during PR testing to developers.

Who it’s for: Software teams using CI/CD who want automated, browser-based testing and visual verification for each pull request.

Features

AI agents that test every pull request
Isolated sandboxed builds for PR validation
Real browser testing
Automated failure reporting with screenshots
CI/CD integration

Founders · 2

Ethan PronevFounder

Waterloo🎓 University of Waterloo

Co-founder at Approxima, building the trust layer to help software development scale with AI. Previously worked on trading systems at Jane Street and Citadel Securities. Computer Science graduate from the University of Waterloo, class of 2025.

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Ashish SelvarajFounder

Microsoft

Databricks

Waterloo

Co-founder at Approxima, building the trust layer to help software development scale with AI. Previously worked on delta live tables at Databricks, an infra testing engine at Microsoft and graduated with a double degree in Computer Science and Business from Waterloo in 2025.

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