# Code Climate

> Code Climate is a New York-based software engineering intelligence company founded in 2011. It began with automated code review and quality analysis, grew into Velocity - an analytics platform that gives engineering leaders visibility into delivery, DORA metrics and team health - and has since repositioned around helping enterprise leaders measure and manage AI-native engineering transformation, pairing a data platform with Forward Deployed Engineers.

- **Founded:** 2011
- **Headquarters:** New York, New York, United States
- **Founders:** Bryan Helmkamp (Co-Founder & CEO), Noah Davis (Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** ~25 employees (2026)
- **Products:** Velocity, Quality (now Qlty Software), Test Coverage, AI-Native Transformation Platform + Forward Deployed Engineers
- **Notable:** Helped popularize automated code review and maintainability scoring for the software industry starting in 2011, Raised $50M Series C in 2021, bringing total funding to roughly $66-68M, Reached 1,000+ enterprise and startup customers including Slack, Instacart and Conde Nast

## Products & services

- **Velocity** — Software Engineering Intelligence (SEI) platform giving leaders and teams insight across capacity, delivery, quality, culture and cost, including accurate DORA metrics computed from deploy and incident data plus 60+ additional engineering metrics.
- **Quality (now Qlty Software)** — The original automated code review and static analysis product that scored maintainability and technical debt; spun out into an independent company, Qlty Software, in November 2024.
- **Test Coverage** — Test coverage tracking and reporting integrated with the code quality workflow.
- **AI-Native Transformation Platform + Forward Deployed Engineers** — Current enterprise offering pairing a data platform that captures context, integrates signals and tracks AI adoption/spend with expert Forward Deployed Engineers running 12-week pilots to measure genuine behavioral change from AI.

## Achievements

- Helped popularize automated code review and maintainability scoring for the software industry starting in 2011
- Raised $50M Series C in 2021, bringing total funding to roughly $66-68M
- Reached 1,000+ enterprise and startup customers including Slack, Instacart and Conde Nast
- Launched what it marketed as the industry's most actionable and accurate DORA metrics in 2023
- Successfully spun out its original Quality product into an independent company, Qlty Software, in 2024

## Latest updates

- **2021-09** — Raised $50M Series C led by PSG to accelerate the Velocity engineering intelligence platform.
- **2023-02** — Launched enhanced DORA metrics inside Velocity, computed from deploy and incident data without source code access.
- **2024-11** — Spun out its original Quality / static analysis product into an independent company, Qlty Software.
- **2025** — Repositioned around helping enterprises build 'AI-native' software organizations, pairing its platform with Forward Deployed Engineers and 12-week pilots.

## Links

- Website: https://codeclimate.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/code-climate
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/codeclimate
- GitHub: https://github.com/codeclimate
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/codeclimate

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Last updated: 2026-07-21