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Deep contextual AI coding assistant for large codebases — the GitHub Copilot rival from Eric Schmidt's orbit
HQ: Palo Alto, CA, United States | Founded: 2022 | Employees: 50–100 (est. 2026) | Stage: Series B (near-unicorn, Apr 2024) | Website: https://www.augmentcode.com
Augment Code (legal: Augment Inc.) was founded in 2022 in Palo Alto by Igor Ostrovsky (former chief architect at Pure Storage and Microsoft engineer) and Guy Gur-Ari (AI researcher, ex-DeepMind/UC Berkeley). Now led by CEO Scott Dietzen (ex-Pure Storage CEO), it builds a deeply contextual AI coding assistant — extension for VS Code and JetBrains that indexes an organization's entire codebase, issues and knowledge to provide accurate completions, chat, and next-edit predictions rather than generic LLM suggestions. It emerged from stealth in April 2024 with $227M in funding (TechCrunch/Crunchbase report $252M total) at a reported ~$977M valuation led by Sutter Hill Ventures. In 2025 the company faces chatter of acquisition talks after competing with Cursor's $29B scale, but remains independe
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