PullRequest, an Austin-based code review as a service startup, announced Monday it acquired Moonlight, a remote developer hiring startup out of Brooklyn. The terms of the contract have not been disclosed.
Founded in 2017, PullRequest was created to speed up the code review process, ensuring code is free of bugs and security flaws before it is released into production. The company says its AI-enabled product has done reviews for thousands of developers, evolving from simply flagging code-based issues to proactively fixing them.
Acquiring a platform like Moonlight, which targets end-to-end development, was a “natural fit” for PullRequest, according to its announcement.
“Our platform is at a place where we’re very confident about our ability to identify issues,” PullRequest founder and CEO Lyal Avery told TechCrunch. “We’re moving to the next phase of fixing issues automatically. In order to do that, we have to have access to people producing code. So with the developers on our platform that are currently reviewers, as well as the Moonlight folks, we can start to fix the issues we identify, and also attach that to our learning processes.”
Moonlight has just two employees, co-founders Emma Lawler and Philip Thomas, both of whom will be joining PullRequest as head of design and head of growth, respectively. Its platform boasts more than 3,000 developers, which will be carried over to the PullRequest network.
PullRequest was a member of Y Combinator’s summer 2017 cohort. Its most recent funding round was $8 million back in 2018, which brought its total money raised to more than $12 million, according to Crunchbase.
Avery told TechCrunch that, for now, the companies will remain separate, with Moonlight continuing to operate its own website under the PullRequest umbrella.
