# Itamar Friedman

> Itamar Friedman is the co-founder and CEO of Qodo (formerly CodiumAI), an AI platform built to review, test, and govern code so AI-generated software can ship safely. A Technion-trained machine learning engineer, he previously co-founded Visualead (acquired by Alibaba) and led Alibaba's machine vision work in Israel before starting Qodo in 2022. Under his leadership Qodo has raised roughly $120 million, including a $70 million Series B in March 2026, and counts enterprises like Nvidia, Walmart, and Intuit among its users.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Qodo
- **Organizations:** Qodo, CodiumAI, Visualead, Alibaba Group, Mellanox Technologies
- **From:** Israel
- **Nationality:** Israeli
- **Education:** BSc, Electrical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, MSc, Electrical Engineering (Machine Learning & Computer Vision), Summa Cum Laude, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
- **Known for:** Co-founded and led Qodo to roughly $120M in total funding by 2026, Co-founded Visualead, acquired by Alibaba Group, Led Alibaba's machine vision work in Israel as Director of Machine Vision

## Career timeline

- **1990s** — Taught himself computing in high school and built his school's computer network; developed early web applications
- **2000s** — Worked at Mellanox Technologies on chip design and verification
- **2012** — Co-founded Visualead, serving as CTO, focused on machine vision and visual QR codes for mobile
- **2016** — Visualead acquired by Alibaba Group
- **2017-2021** — Held roles at Alibaba including Head of the Israel Machine Vision Lab and Director of Machine Vision, working within DAMO Academy
- **2022** — Co-founded CodiumAI (later Qodo) with Dedy Kredo; raised $10M seed
- **2023** — Raised $40M Series A for code integrity tools
- **2024** — Rebranded CodiumAI to Qodo, announcing a broader code integrity platform
- **2026** — Raised $70M Series B led by Qumra Capital, bringing total funding to about $120M

## Achievements

- Co-founded and led Qodo to roughly $120M in total funding by 2026
- Co-founded Visualead, acquired by Alibaba Group
- Led Alibaba's machine vision work in Israel as Director of Machine Vision
- Graduated Summa Cum Laude with BSc and MSc from the Technion in machine learning and computer vision
- Built Qodo 2.0, a multi-agent code review system that ranked #1 on Martian's Code Review Bench (64.3%)
- Grew Qodo to serve enterprises including Nvidia, Walmart, Red Hat, Intuit, Texas Instruments and Monday.com
- Won multiple machine learning and programming competitions over a 20-plus year ML career

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — Qodo raised a $70M Series B led by Qumra Capital, bringing total funding to roughly $120M, with angels including OpenAI's Peter Welinder and Meta's Clara Shih.
- **2024-09** — CodiumAI rebranded to Qodo alongside a $40M Series A, expanding from test generation into a full code integrity platform.

## Links

- Website: https://qodo.ai
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/itamarf
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/itamar_mar
- GitHub: https://github.com/coditamar

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Last updated: 2026-07-17