Less than four months after announcing its seed round, CodeSee has raised another $7 million, extending its previous round and bringing its total funding to $10 million.
New and existing investors led Thursday's round including Wellington Access Ventures and Plexo Capital, and individual investors Adam Gross (Heroku) and Window Snyder (Square, Intel, Fastly) also participated.
The San Francisco startup was founded in 2019 by CEO Shanea Leven and her husband, Josh, who is CodeSee's CTO. The company helps organizations map out, color-code and visualize their code bases so that it's easier for engineers and non-technical staff alike to understand what's going on. The goal is to save teams time and cut down on costly errors which lead to software bugs.
“There’s too much code for any one person to understand, and so how do we digest that information? We think the right way to do that is visualizing it," Leven told me in September. "You’re reducing the unknown unknowns that we all deal with everyday. And that, in turn, builds better experiences for every end user because our entire lives are run by software."
Leven previously worked for tech companies including Google, eBay and Cloudflare, and she and her husband were both working full-time at startups when they started CodeSee as a part-time project. It's now a full-time operation with 13 employees who are distributed around the US and Europe. The company plans on hiring around half a dozen more people this year.
The new funds will be used to meet growing demand, expand its enterprise and teams offerings, and build out new Maps features, the company said in a statement. CodeSee says it has thousands of active users.
Their core product is CodeSee Maps, and the company also maintains an open source community hub for project maintainers and contributors called OSS Port. Members of that community have "forever free" access to the maps product.
