Noon, a US company that makes AI software for designing digital products, has acquired FinalRun, a Bengaluru startup that builds AI tools for testing mobile apps. The deal was reported on June 30, 2026.
Financial terms were not disclosed.
FinalRun co-founders Arnold Laishram and Ashish Yadav have joined Noon as members of its technical staff. Noon plans to use the team's experience to take its design canvas to mobile platforms. Venture Intelligence reported that the purchase marks Noon's entry into the Indian market.
What FinalRun built
FinalRun was founded in April 2025 by Arnold Laishram, its chief executive, and Ashish Yadav, its chief technology officer. It describes itself as an AI platform for mobile test automation. Users write a test scenario in plain English, and AI agents turn it into actions on the device, such as taps, swipes and typing, without the user writing code.
Venture Intelligence reported that the startup gained prominence in April 2026 for its results on Google DeepMind's AndroidWorld benchmark, which measures how well AI agents complete tasks in Android environments. It did not give FinalRun's score.
No outside funding for FinalRun has been reported, and the company has not said how many people it employed. The American Bazaar reported that FinalRun's employees are expected to join Noon.
Why Noon is buying
Noon describes itself as an AI-native product design platform. Rather than producing static design files, it builds working prototypes from a team's real code, with the aim of reducing friction between designers and engineers. When it announced its funding in April 2026, the product was in early access and the company planned to open it to design teams in the following weeks.
Noon said it plans to extend its design canvas to mobile platforms, drawing on the FinalRun team's experience in operating Android and iOS devices autonomously.
The American Bazaar said the deal is meant to speed up development of Noon's AI design tools and expand its engineering base in India, in support of its goal of building an end-to-end AI platform for making digital products. The outlet described Noon as a platform where product managers, designers and software developers work together across the whole product development cycle, and said FinalRun would gain access to Noon's global customer base and resources.
The founders and the funding
Noon was founded in 2024 by Aditya Bandi and Kushagra Sinha, whom The American Bazaar described as Indian American entrepreneurs. Bandi was previously chief executive of Bookpad. Sinha co-founded Jiny, later renamed Leap, a mobile-first in-app guidance platform that Whatfix acquired in 2021.
In April 2026, Noon raised $44 million (about ₹407.6 crore), according to Inc42. Its investors include Chemistry, First Round Capital, Scribble Ventures, Elevation Capital and Afore Capital, along with angel investors linked to Meta, Canva, Apple and OpenAI.
The FinalRun deal came less than three months after that funding round.
A two-person team with a benchmark claim
FinalRun was small. In September 2025, tech outlet TimesTech described it as a two-person startup and reported its claim to have taken first place in autonomous mobile agent performance on a benchmark maintained by Google DeepMind researchers, ahead of entries from DeepSeek, Alibaba and ByteDance. The article did not publish a score, and the claim came from the company.
In the same article, Yadav addressed concerns that large language models hallucinate and give inconsistent results, saying the team had heard such concerns often. Laishram said the product cut testing times from weeks to hours. Nine months later, both founders had moved into technical staff roles at Noon, where their work on device-operating agents is set to support Noon's move into mobile design.
Neither company has said whether FinalRun's testing product will remain available to outside customers, or how its technology will be packaged inside Noon.
