Former GitHub CEO launches AI coding startup
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Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke on Tuesday announced he is leading a new startup for developers geared toward the reality where most coding is done by AI agents.
Why it matters: Automated coding has been one of generative AI's earliest success stories, but it's also an increasingly crowded market with a flood of startups alongside big players like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft.
Driving the news: The new company, Entire, has raised $60 million in a seed round that values it at $300 million.
- The round was led by Felicis, with Madrona, Microsoft's M12 and Basis Set also taking part.
- Individual investors include Gergely Orosz, former Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and Y Combinator's Garry Tan.
- Entire is also releasing its first product, Checkpoints, a developer tool that captures the context behind AI-written code, including the prompts, reasoning and decisions made by agents.
What they're saying: "Entire is a new platform for developers in this era where agents write most of the code," Dohmke told Axios. "We are not training models or building agents, we are integrating with them."
- Dohmke, who is CEO of Entire, stepped down from Microsoft-owned GitHub in August, saying he wanted to pursue entrepreneurial endeavors.
Between the lines: Dohmke said his new venture isn't trying to compete directly with services like Claude Code, Curser or Codex.
- "Our platform will be open-source, independent, and scalable for every developer and agent to host their code and agent context," he said. "If you build with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, you name it — you will have a home with us."
- Dohmke says that while AI has changed the way software is coded, the tools that manage the process are still geared toward human-led operations.
- "Soon, developers won't look at the code anymore, as agents will write way more than humans can review," Dohmke told Axios. "... We have to rethink the entire system of software production from the ground up. We need to create an agent assembly line for software development."
