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Bryan Helmkamp and the trouble with good code
Good developers can still leave difficult software behind. From Code Climate to Qlty, Bryan Helmkamp has built a career around making the next change easier - and the evidence easier to use.
Harjot Gill Built a Career by Watching the Bottleneck Move
The CodeRabbit co-founder has spent years following software’s mess downstream. His latest bet is that when machines can write code at speed, judgment becomes the scarce ingredient.
Daksh Gupta Is Building the Bug Catcher for the Age of AI Code
A messy inherited codebase sent three Georgia Tech friends west. Now Gupta is betting that as AI writes more software, an independent reviewer becomes essential infrastructure.
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.
Qodo
Qodo (formerly CodiumAI) is an Israeli-American startup building AI agents for code review, testing, and governance. Where most AI coding tools race to generate more code, Qodo focuses on verifying it - catching bugs, generating tests, reviewing pull requests, and enforcing an organization's own quality standards. Its platform spans IDE plugins, a CLI, and hosted PR-review integrations for GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps. Founded in 2022 by Itamar Friedman and Dedy Kredo, Qodo has raised $121M across seed, Series A, and a $70M Series B in 2026, and counts Nvidia, Walmart, Red Hat, Intuit, and Monday.com among its customers.
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.
JetBrains
JetBrains is a privately held software company that builds professional developer tools used by millions of programmers worldwide. Founded in 2000 in Prague, it is best known for the IntelliJ IDEA family of integrated development environments - including PyCharm, WebStorm, Rider, GoLand and CLion - and for creating the Kotlin programming language, now Google's preferred language for Android. The company also builds team tools such as TeamCity, YouTrack and the ReSharper extension for Visual Studio, and has moved aggressively into AI with its Junie coding agent and AI Assistant. JetBrains has never taken outside funding and remains self-funded and profitable.
Trunk
Trunk is a San Francisco developer-tools company building a suite that keeps continuous integration reliable at scale. Its two flagship products - a parallel Merge Queue that batches and tests many pull requests at once, and Flaky Tests, which automatically detects and quarantines unreliable tests - target the bottlenecks that slow engineering teams as they ship more code, increasingly with AI assistance. Founded in 2021 by ex-Uber and ex-Google engineers, Trunk raised a $25M Series A led by Initialized Capital in 2022 and counts Brex, Faire, Zillow, and Gusto among its users.
CodeRabbit
CodeRabbit is an AI-powered code review platform that reads every pull request, leaves line-by-line feedback, and helps engineering teams keep up with code now being written largely by other AIs. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in San Francisco, it serves more than 10,000 organizations including Chegg, Groupon, and Mercury.