Code Climate, an automated code reviewer, has raised a $4.5 million round.
The round was led by Union Square Ventures (USV), with participating investments from NextView Ventures, Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Trinity Ventures and Fuel Capital.
The company was founded in 2011 by Bryan Helmkamp with a mission to help organizations take control of their code quality. Code Climate’s platform works to consolidate the results from a suite of static analysis tools into a single, real-time report, giving development teams crucial insights into improving code quality.
The company bootstrapped its business for three years, signing up over 1,000 paying accounts and analyzing over 30,000 code repositories every day, in the process. Now, the company is a market leader in SaaS static analytics.
Today, Code Climate’s clients include GitHub, New Relic, Kickstarter, Pivotal Labs, LivingSocial and Zendesk, to name a few. The service has been used by over 90,000 projects across over 20 programming languages and frameworks, and now analyzes over 2 billion lines of code daily.
The company plans on using the funding to continue to develop the platform and expand operations. In conjunction with the new financing, Albert Wenger, Managing Partner at USV, will be joining Code Climate’s board.
“There is a common mantra that you can have any two in software: fast time to market, low cost of development, or high quality, but never all three,” said USV Managing Partner, Albert Wenger, in a statement. “This, of course, is also what people used to believe about manufacturing before the rise of techniques such as lean manufacturing and continuous improvement. When you lead with quality in manufacturing you can, in fact, have quality, speed, and low cost. The same will be true for code, which makes assessing and managing the quality of code a key challenge for the coming years.”
