# Amar Goel

> Amar Goel is a serial entrepreneur and the Co-founder and CEO of Bito, an AI-powered code review and developer productivity platform. He previously co-founded PubMatic, a programmatic advertising exchange that went public on NASDAQ in 2020. Earlier, at age 19, he built Chipshot.com to $30M in annual sales from his parents' garage. He studied Computer Science and Economics at Harvard, raised over $100M in venture capital across his career, and was recognized with the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2011 for Northern California. At Bito, he is building AI agents that give development teams codebase-aware code reviews, with the goal of letting software be built 'at the speed of thought.'

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Bito
- **Organizations:** Bito, PubMatic, Komli Media, Chipshot.com, Safeter, FinAccel
- **From:** San Francisco Bay Area, United States
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Bachelor of Arts, Economics, Harvard University, Master of Science, Computer Science, Harvard University, MBA, Harvard Business School
- **Known for:** Co-founded PubMatic, which reached $4B peak market valuation on NASDAQ (PUBM), Built Chipshot.com to ~$30M annual revenue as a 19-year-old college student, Raised over $100M in venture capital across career

## Career timeline

- **1995** — Co-founded Chipshot.com at age 19 while at Harvard, grew it to ~$30M in annual sales
- **1998** — Graduated Harvard; chose Chipshot over offers from McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, and Oracle
- **2000** — Dot-com crash devastated Chipshot; company effectively went bankrupt near IPO
- **2000** — Joined McKinsey & Co. as a consultant
- **2003** — Joined Microsoft as Regional Manager for digital advertising sales
- **2006** — Moved to India; co-founded PubMatic, a programmatic advertising exchange
- **2006** — Co-founded Komli Media, leading adtech platform in Asia-Pacific
- **2011** — Won Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Northern California
- **2013** — Took over as Founder and CEO of Komli Media
- **2015** — Sold Komli Media to Malaysian telecom; rejoined PubMatic in active role
- **2020** — PubMatic went public on NASDAQ (PUBM); Amar watched IPO opening from home during COVID
- **2020** — Founded Bito, initially focused on collaboration tools for developers
- **2021** — Pivoted Bito to AI-powered developer tools after experimenting with LLMs
- **2024** — Bito launched AI Code Review Agent; reviewing 10,000+ PRs per week
- **2025** — Raised $5.7M seed extension led by Vela Partners to expand codebase-aware AI reviews

## Achievements

- Co-founded PubMatic, which reached $4B peak market valuation on NASDAQ (PUBM)
- Built Chipshot.com to ~$30M annual revenue as a 19-year-old college student
- Raised over $100M in venture capital across career
- Hired 1,000+ employees across multiple companies globally
- Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Northern California (2011)
- Bito's AI Code Review delivers 89% faster PR merges and 34% fewer regressions
- Bito processes 10,000+ pull requests per week across GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket
- PubMatic processes 500 billion ad auctions daily

## Latest updates

- **2025-05** — Bito raised a $5.7M seed extension led by Vela Partners to expand AI Code Review with codebase awareness
- **2025-01** — Bito introduced a Slack Agent powered by AI Architect that reads conversations, Jira tickets, and Confluence pages
- **2024-02** — Launched Bito's AI Code Review Agent, which now handles 87% of all PR feedback for adopting teams

## Links

- Website: https://bito.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amargoel
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/amargoel

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