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Agentic CLI that edits files, runs commands, and navigates codebases autonomously
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Updated March 27, 2026
Approxima is a self-serve agentic QA platform that plugs into CI/CD pipelines to autonomously scope, code, validate, and fix software issues end-to-end. Part of YC W2026, the company was founded in 2025 by Ethan Pronev (ex-Jane Street, ex-Citadel Securities) and Ashish Selvaraj (ex-Databricks, ex-Microsoft), both University of Waterloo CS graduates.
One platform for routing, observability, tracing, and evals across every LLM provider.
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AI-native code editor (VS Code fork)
Respan lets you trace LLM and agent calls across any model or framework, A/B test prompts on production traffic, and route requests across 500+ models through one gateway.