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Adaptavist sells the work that comes after the software
Buying Jira is the easy part. Adaptavist has built a business around the migrations, integrations and human habits that determine whether enterprise software earns its keep.
AI Made Coding Cheap. Gitar Built the Quality Gate - Then Sonar Bought It.
A small crew of developer-infrastructure veterans made a contrarian bet: once AI could write code quickly, verification would become the expensive part. Their fix-the-fix loop attracted enterprise users, $9 million, and a buyer with 7 million developers.
GitLab
GitLab is an AI-powered DevSecOps platform that brings the entire software development lifecycle - planning, source code management, CI/CD, security, and deployment - into a single application. Born as an open-source alternative to GitHub in 2011 and run as one of the world's largest all-remote companies, GitLab now serves enterprises and millions of developers, trades on Nasdaq under GTLB, and is pushing into agentic AI development with GitLab Duo.
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.
Bito
Bito is a San Francisco-based AI developer tools company building agents that review pull requests and ground code generation in deep codebase context. Its AI Code Review agent plugs into GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket to flag bugs, security issues, and style problems before humans burn a single brain cell on them - and it speeds up PR merges by 89%, according to the company.