New Platform Launches to Measure AI's ROI
A startup named Navigara has launched a "performance layer" for engineering teams, backed by $2.5 million in funding. The tool aims to help business leaders prove whether expensive AI tools are actually improving performance and delivering a return on investment.
The company was co-founded by Jirka Bachel, a former CTO with experience at Seznam.cz, and Peter Malina, a former Director of Engineering at Kiwi.com. Navigara is headquartered in San Francisco but maintains its engineering operations in Prague. The recent launch was supported by a $2.5 million seed round led by Inovo VC, with participation from Rockaway Ventures and QQ Capital. Navigara's platform integrates with tools like GitHub, GitLab, Jira, and Linear to analyze engineering activity. It moves beyond simple metrics like the number of commits to evaluate the quality of the work and its alignment with strategic business goals. The system uses AI agents to assess code and create performance baselines from up to 15 years of a company's Git history. This allows businesses to compare team performance and the impact of AI tools against historical data, aiming to distinguish between increased activity and actual productivity gains. The platform is designed for enterprise use and can be deployed in a customer's private cloud, ensuring that source code is analyzed in memory without being stored or used for model training. The push for such tools comes as enterprise AI adoption moves from an experimental phase to a focus on measurable ROI. Many companies struggle to quantify the business value of their AI investments, facing challenges with integration into legacy systems and a lack of technical expertise. A significant portion of businesses report that inadequate financial justification is a key barrier to AI adoption. Investor Petr Šmíd of Rockaway Ventures noted that after the initial wave of AI adoption, it's time for companies to distinguish what truly creates value. Navigara aims to replace "assumptions with evidence" in a market where developer productivity has become a critical issue for nearly every company. The company, founded in 2022, has undergone significant internal changes leading up to its public launch. A blog post by a former CTO in early 2026 described a major team restructuring and a pivot in the company's direction in late 2025, highlighting a shift from a developer-focused tool to the current enterprise performance measurement platform.
