Qodo raises $40M Series A to bring quality-first code generation and testing to the enterprise
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But the team, which is announcing a $40 million Series A round led by Susa Ventures and Square Peg today, is just as much focused on generating code as on generating the tests and code quality in general.The service launched out of stealth 18 months ago and so far, the company says, over 1 million developers have tried its solutions and a number of Fortune 100 companies have adopted its enterprise platform.One major differentiator for Qodo is that while the company offers the usual extensions for Visual Studio Code and JetBrains to bring its Qodo Gen tools right into the IDE, it also offers a git agent that supports GitHub, GitLab, and Atlassians BitBucket, as well as a Chrome extension and a CLI tool.We call ourselves the first quality-first code generation platform for complex code, Qodo CEO and co-founder Itamar Friedman told me. So were integrating into many locations.Another interesting aspect of Qodo is that it offers developers the option to write out the issue they are trying to fix and how they want to tackle it in natural language. The agent doesnt directly try to fix the issue, but now the code-completion tool is aware of what you are trying to do and can focus its suggestions on that.After writing code, developers can then access Qodos test generation service within their IDE.Later on, once the code has been pushed to GitHub, Qodos tools can help the reviewer quickly see what was changed and what the possible issues are. Friedman told me that the team is actually thinking about extending this tool to automatically create a video that walks the reviewer through the changes. If your reviewers always give you very similar comments about your code then the code suggestion tool can take that into account, for example.AI agents play an increasingly pivotal role in software creation, and we believe a quality-first approach is key for their widespread adoption at the enterprise, said Yonatan Sela at Square Peg.