--- title: "Asheem Panakkat" description: "Asheem Panakkat is named as co-founder and CEO of Klarent in a public source Presspool read for that company, klarent.ai. The role is printed in the words that source uses. This page is the Presspool record of that line: the person, the company record, the niche map when Klarent is on one, and the sample of how often AI answers are collected for `who is Asheem Panakkat`." canonical: "https://presspool.ai/founders/asheem-panakkat-klarent" last-updated: "2026-11-02" --- # Asheem Panakkat Founder record · Presspool · https://presspool.ai/founders/asheem-panakkat-klarent Asheem Panakkat is named as co-founder and CEO of [Klarent](https://presspool.ai/companies/klarent-ai) in a public source Presspool read for that company, [klarent.ai](https://klarent.ai/blogs/klarent-secures-8m-seed-funding/). The role is printed in the words that source uses. This page is the Presspool record of that line: the person, the company record, the niche map when Klarent is on one, and the sample of how often AI answers are collected for `who is Asheem Panakkat`. The source URL is the sameAs on this page. Asheem Panakkat is here because a page already read for a Presspool company stated the name in a founder line, and that company has its own Presspool record. The founders index lists names from A to Z. Klarent (klarent.ai) is on Presspool at [Klarent](https://presspool.ai/companies/klarent-ai). The company record describes it in these words: Klarent is an agentic QA platform whose AI agents write, run and maintain tests for web, iOS and Android apps. Latest announced financing: $8 million, Seed, led by Mosaic Ventures, announced October 9, 2026. Klarent announced $8 million Seed on October 9, 2026. Led by Mosaic Ventures. EU-Startups reported the round as €7.13 million; Moonfire Ventures and angels including Jürgen Galler also participated. Formerly fore ai. The round is listed in the [AI startup funding roster for October 5–10, 2026](https://presspool.ai/ai-startup-funding/week-of-2026-10-05). Round sources: [Klarent announcement](https://klarent.ai/blogs/klarent-secures-8m-seed-funding/), [EU-Startups](https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/10/zurichs-klarent-raises-e7-13-million-to-scale-its-agentic-software-testing-platform-and-expand-into-the-us/). Of the 81 Seed rounds with exactly stated amounts in dollars on Presspool's weekly rosters since September 21, 2026, Klarent's $8 million is the joint 31st largest; their median is $7 million. Sources on the Klarent company record: [Own site](https://klarent.ai/), [Independent source](https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/10/zurichs-klarent-raises-e7-13-million-to-scale-its-agentic-software-testing-platform-and-expand-into-the-us/), [Klarent announcement](https://klarent.ai/blogs/klarent-secures-8m-seed-funding/). Klarent is a member of the [AI coding](https://presspool.ai/niches/ai-coding) map. Sourced list of AI coding companies: coding assistants, coding agents and AI app builders, with their funding and how often AI apps name each one. The map page lists the other companies in that market and how often AI answers name those companies. Company naming counts stay on the map and on the company record. Sampling in progress. Presspool has no completed sample of the question `who is Asheem Panakkat` for Asheem Panakkat, so this page shows no naming rate. A rate is published only as answers, of attempts, by app, taken from observations already collected, along with the domains those answers cited. No count is estimated, and an empty sample is not reported as zero. Whether AI answers name Klarent is reported on the company record. The sample on this page, when one exists, is the person question for Asheem Panakkat. Cited domains are listed when that sample contains them. The index lists founders from A to Z, and no one pays to be included. Corrections need a public source and go to the [contact page](https://presspool.ai/contact). The record behind this page was built November 4, 2026. ## Source - [https://klarent.ai/blogs/klarent-secures-8m-seed-funding/](https://klarent.ai/blogs/klarent-secures-8m-seed-funding/) --- Presspool is a sourced record of AI startup funding. Rounds are listed because they were publicly announced, and no company pays to be listed. Published by [Jaxon Parrott](https://jaxonparrott.com). Jaxon Parrott coined [Machine Relations](https://machinerelations.ai) in 2024. [AuthorityTech](https://authoritytech.io), which he founded in 2018, is The World's First Machine Relations Agency. 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