Codegen
Category: AI Agents
Enterprise-grade autonomous/background AI coding agent that completes software engineering tasks with minimal human oversight, acquired by ClickUp in December 2025. Codegen was founded in 2023. The company is led by Jay Hack. Based in San Francisco, USA. Team size: 11-50. Total funding raised: $16.2M. Latest round: Acquired. Key investors include Thrive Capital, Adam D'Angelo (Quora CEO, angel), Mike Krieger (Anthropic CPO, angel).
- Founded
- 2023
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, USA
- Team size
- 11-50
- Total funding
- $16.2M
Value proposition
Background AI coding agents that autonomously plan, write, test, and ship code changes with minimal supervision, aiming at 'Level 5 self-driving' software engineering.
Products and solutions
Autonomous/background coding agent platform, graph-sitter (open-source library for programmatic codebase refactors built on Tree-sitter), enterprise orchestration for AI coding agents with task context, governance, and audit trails (post-acquisition, integrated into ClickUp's Super Agents / ClickUp Brain²)
Unique value
One of the first companies to build autonomous 'background' coding agents rather than inline/IDE-copilot style assistants, with enterprise-grade governance and audit trails.
Target customer
Enterprise engineering teams and fast-growing software companies
Industries served
Software development / DevTools
Technology advantage
Early mover in autonomous coding agents; open-sourced graph-sitter (Tree-sitter based structural code editing); enterprise focus on governance/audit trails for agent-generated code.
How they differentiate
Focused on fully autonomous 'background' agent execution (vs. inline IDE copilots), with enterprise governance/audit trail features for agent-produced code, now embedded into ClickUp's Super Agent / Brain² work-management platform.
Main competitors
Devin (Cognition AI), Cursor (Anysphere), GitHub Copilot (GitHub/Microsoft), Windsurf (Cognition AI)
Key partnerships
Acquired by and integrated into ClickUp (Dec 2025), backed by Thrive Capital, customers included Ramp, Notion, Ironclad, ClickUp
Notable customers
Ramp, Notion, Ironclad, ClickUp
Major milestones
Founded 2023 by Jay Hack, raised $16.2M seed from Thrive Capital (July 2023), grew to serve enterprise customers (Ramp, Notion, Ironclad), acquired by ClickUp in December 2025 (confirmed via Businesswire, pulse2.com, startuphub.ai dated Dec 2025), Jay Hack immediately became ClickUp's Head of AI and remained in that role as of June 2026 per his personal site (jay.ai) 'ClickUp Brain²' entry and August 2026 podcast appearances (iHeart 'When Agents Outnumber Humans 3 to 1').
Growth metrics
Served enterprise customers including Ramp, Notion, and Ironclad prior to acquisition; acquired by ClickUp (a $4B-valuation enterprise software company) in December 2025.
Market positioning
Enterprise-oriented autonomous coding agent, positioned against IDE-centric tools (Cursor, Copilot) and other autonomous agents (Devin).
Geographic focus
United States / Global enterprise software market
Patents and IP
graph-sitter (open source, on GitHub)
About Jay Hack
Founder & CEO of Mira AI, Inc. ($28M exit, acquired by FemTec Health); previously at Palantir Technologies; studied CS/AI at Stanford University.
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Official website: https://codegen.com