Entire Raises $60M for AI Code Auditing
Entire, a startup led by former GitHub CEO Thomas Stomke, has secured $60 million in funding for its AI code auditing platform, "Checkpoints." The platform is designed for human oversight of AI-generated code, signaling a market shift from tools for code authoring to tools for code verification and trust.
- The $60 million seed round was led by Felicis, with participation from Microsoft's M12 fund, Madrona, and Basis Set. This round, one of the largest ever for a developer tools startup, valued Entire at approximately $300 million. - Angel investors in the round included prominent figures such as Datadog CEO Olivier Pomel, Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan, and former Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang. - Thomas Stomke, who goes by Dohmke, previously served as the CEO of GitHub from 2021 until he stepped down in August 2025 to start Entire. Before that, he co-founded HockeyApp, which Microsoft acquired in 2014. - The "Checkpoints" tool is an open-source command-line interface that captures the context behind AI-generated code, including prompts, transcripts, and agent decision steps. This information is stored alongside the code in a Git-compatible format to improve auditability and traceability. - Checkpoints initially supports Anthropic's Claude Code and Google's Gemini CLI, with plans to integrate with more AI coding agents in the future. - Entire's broader platform aims to build a Git-compatible database and a universal semantic reasoning layer to manage fleets of AI agents from different providers, like GitHub and GitLab. - The company's goal is to address the growing bottleneck where AI can generate code faster than human teams can review and audit it, a critical step for security and compliance. - The market for AI code review and auditing tools is becoming increasingly competitive, with established players like Snyk and platforms like GitHub Copilot offering similar capabilities.
