CodeRabbit raised $143m to read the code AI wrote
Code review is the step where somebody reads a change before it ships. A developer proposes an edit, opens what the trade calls a pull request, and a colleague checks it for bugs and security holes.
It is slow and unglamorous work. Until recently it was also manageable, because roughly one human wrote each change and roughly one human read it.
That ratio has broken. Coding agents now work for hours at a stretch and open pull requests with barely any human involvement.
On Wednesday CodeRabbit said it had raised $143m to sit in the gap. Bloomberg reported the round before the announcement. Atomico and Smash Capital co-led it.
Chief executive Harjot Gill gave the post-money figure to Axios Pro as $1.5bn. He and Gur Singh founded the company in San Francisco in 2023. Gill had sold an earlier startup, Netsil, to Nutanix in 2018.
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