Benchmark in conversations with the direction of the A series for Greptile, AI code reviewer at USD 180 million, according to sources

Greptile, a startup of the AI code review is in the process of collecting the A series. Sources familiar with Tell TechCrunch, that for $ 30 million with a valuation of $ 180 million run by partner Benchmark Eric Vishia. But one person claims that the contract has not closed and the conditions may change.

Founded by Dashsh Gupta after graduating from Georgia Tech in 2023, the startup passed through Y Combinator in the winter of Kohort 2024 and raised a round of seeds value $ 4 million run by the initiated capital after completing the program.

Last yr, Gupta told Techcrunch that his company was acting as an experienced colleague who had a deep understanding of the client’s code, which allows him to indicate errors and other potential problems that the reviewers may miss.

As in the case of most AI areas, the space for reviewing the code is very competitive.

Greptile’s biggest rivals are graphite, a startup, which at the starting of this yr collected a B -series with a value of $ 52 million led by Accel with Anthropic’s Anthology Fund participation with Menlo Ventures, A16Z and others. Another key competitor is Codrabbit, which last yr provided a series A in the amount of $ 16 million from CRV.

Intensive competition led Greptile to require an exceptionally long hours from the staff.

The then 22-year-old Gupta Posted to X In November, this rough “does not offer a balance between professional and private life.” Employees often work from 9am to 23:00, including on Saturdays and sometimes Sundays, he wrote.

After the post became popular, Gupta said many information services that outweigh the competition, requires maximum effort on the part of each team member. “Nobody cares about the third best company, and even the second best company in any category in the software. If you intend to put 95 percent of the effort, this is the equivalent of the contribution of 0 percent,” said Gupta in an interview with Inc.

Regardless of the work culture, attracting VC, comparable to the benchmark in a healthy A series, can be helpful when traveling Greptile.

Greptile and Benchmark didn’t respond to the request for comment.