If you’ve ever stared down a pull request so bloated it should come with a surgeon general’s warning, you’ll get why CodeAnt AI (YC W24) just raised a $2M seed round. If not, strap in.
Two engineers, Amartya Jha and Chinmay Bharti, walk into the tech world with battle scars from Zeta, ShareChat, and high-frequency trading floors. They didn’t just see code reviews break at scale. They lived it. While the rest of us were scotch taping CICD pipelines and praying our junior devs didn’t sneak in a memory leak on Friday, these two were busy building a solution that doesn’t just review code, it rewires the review approach.
San Francisco and Bengaluru now serve as ground zero for Code Ant AI, the platform that’s doing more than sniffing out bugs. It’s gutting bloat, auto-fixing over 500K issues daily, scanning 50 million lines of code, and saving dev teams more than 100,000 hours a day. That’s not a productivity boost. That’s a second engineering team you didn’t have to hire.
And let’s talk receipts: Akasa Air, Cyient, Bureau, Kuku FM, Motorq, Draup, and even a few of the Fortune 1000 have already jumped in. Why? Because security shouldn’t be an afterthought, and quality shouldn’t require burnout.
Under the hood? A proprietary AST engine that’s language-agnostic with 30,000+ deterministic rules, all fused with AI that doesn’t hallucinate, it executes. Their platform integrates straight into GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps. Throw in SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance, and even the most paranoid enterprise CISO can breathe easy.
All of this didn’t go unnoticed. Y Combinator and Uncorrelated Ventures led the charge, with VitalStage Ventures, DeVC, Transpose Platform, Entrepreneur First, and a cadre of sharp angels jumping in. That $2M isn’t just capital. It’s validation from people who’ve seen the next big thing before it hit TechCrunch.
The post-money valuation? $20M. The roadmap? Expand the eight-person team, scale product capabilities, and tackle the surging wave of AI-generated code. This isn’t a side project. It’s the future of DevOps colliding with AppSec and shipping as a SaaS platform.
And the name? CodeAnt. Small, surgical, relentless. Like the kind of ant that doesn’t just invade your kitchen, but maps it, reverse-engineers the layout, and improves your plumbing on the way out.
To every dev tired of being the last line of defense for code quality, to every team crushed under PR backlogs and security tickets, there’s a new AI in town. And it’s not here to help. It’s here to handle it.
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