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.