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At the recent Code w/ Claude event in San Francisco, Anthropic showcased a cohort of pioneering startups leveraging the Claude AI model to redefine product development. The session, featuring founders and engineering leaders from Gamma App, Create, Bito, Tempo Labs, Riffusion, and Zencoder, painted a vivid picture of artificial intelligence’s accelerating impact on the startup […]
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Claude Fuels a New Era of AI-Native Product Development

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At Code w/ Claude on May 22, 2025, in San Francisco, Anthropic’s Jo Zhu Kennedy set the stage for a compelling showcase of how startups are leveraging advanced AI models to achieve unprecedented product-market fit and scale. A diverse panel of founders, including Kevin Michael of Tempo Labs, Andrew Filev of Zencoder, Jordan Garcia of Gamma App, Amar Goel of Bito, Dhruv Amin of Create, and Hayk Martiros of Riffusion, shared their transformative experiences building on Claude, underscoring AI’s pivotal role in accelerating innovation across various industries. These companies, she noted, have seen “zero to multi-million user journeys within the past 12 months.”
The presentations revealed a profound shift in how software is conceived, built, and refined. AI is democratizing development, empowering non-technical roles to engage directly with code. Tempo Labs, for instance, offers an IDE that blends the intuitive design capabilities of Figma with the code-generating power of VS Code. Kevin Michael articulated this vision, stating, “Tempo is a new type of IDE that feels more like a design tool like Figma than it does VS Code.” This enables product managers and designers to become “design engineers,” directly creating and modifying front-end code, with Claude generating first drafts of pull requests and even entire codebases. Andrew Filev of Zencoder highlighted AI’s potential to automate the mundane, predicting that “AI Software Agents will automate 90% of routine tasks in the software development life cycle.” He elaborated on the evolution of AI coding, moving from simple code completion (1st Gen) to sophisticated agents that perform unit testing, bug fixing, and custom code generation (2nd Gen). This advancement, particularly with Claude 3.5’s enhanced tool and environment support, has led to a “skyrocket” in usage, with some companies seeing 10x to 100x increases. The next frontier, 3rd Gen agents, promises full SDLC integration, handling verification, code review, and deployment. A critical insight from Gamma App’s Jordan Garcia was the immense impact of improved reasoning and web search capabilities in Claude. He noted that a single update, switching to Sonnet 3.7 with built-in web search, resulted in an “8% increase in [their] key metrics” for deck generation. This seemingly minor feature was a “huge lift,” dramatically improving factual accuracy and reducing the need for extensive prompt engineering, as demonstrated by the stark difference in presentation quality when Claude could pull real-time information. This increased code generation volume, however, introduces new challenges. Amar Goel of Bito emphasized that traditional human code review processes simply “don’t scale” to meet the anticipated 10x surge in AI-generated code. Bito’s AI code review platform, powered by Claude, steps in to provide high-quality, human-like feedback, focusing on “more signal, less noise.” Their agentic approach deeply understands the codebase, identifying subtle bugs like incompatible class cast exceptions that even human reviewers might miss. This has led to a remarkable 89% improvement in PR merge times, with Bito providing roughly 80% of all PR feedback within minutes. Beyond traditional software, AI is also revolutionizing creative fields. Hayk Martiros of Riffusion showcased their generative music models and Ghostwriter, an AI agent powered by Claude that helps artists write and refine song lyrics. Addressing the common “cringe” output of general LLMs for creative writing, Ghostwriter focuses on generating lyrics with “diversity, humor, taste, flow, and flair,” fitting the specific musical context. This specialized AI tool has been used “tens of millions of times” to craft lyrics, demonstrating Claude’s versatility in nuanced creative endeavors. The collective narrative from these founders paints a clear picture: Claude is not just assisting developers; it’s fundamentally altering the landscape of product development. By empowering non-technical users, automating complex workflows, and enhancing the quality and relevance of AI-generated outputs through advanced reasoning and context, Claude is enabling startups to achieve unprecedented speed and innovation in bringing their ideas to market.

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At NGP Capital, we believe in investing in founders who are unleashing the magic of technology. GenAI presents a unique opportunity to create a new category of "system of efficiency" tools, and software engineering, with its unique combination of judgment and rule-based tasks and testable code, is a particularly attractive area for AI to augment productivity. That's why we are excited to announce our investment in Bito. Building AI Agents for software development
Bito is building a AI-powered platform designed to automate and enhance software workflows through the creation of developer AI agents. The company’s broader vision is to provide a platform that helps teams efficiently ship and assess the quality of the growing volume of AI-generated code — grounded in a deep understanding of an organization’s codebase and artifacts. Bito currently offers an AI agent hyper specialized for Code Review. Their the agent integrates directly into version control systems such as GitHub , GitLab and Bitbucket and seamlessly fits into a software engineer's core tasks. The code review agent is strategically important for enhancing software quality and team productivity, and requires deeper organizational context. Code review is a critical, often time-consuming process, particularly for senior engineers. Bito's AI Code Review agent analyzes aspects of a pull request like performance, code structure, security, scalability, and optimization. This focus on code review is a crucial step for Bito, as it requires building a precise understanding of code context, essential for their broader AI agent platform vision. The power of codebase awareness
A core differentiator for Bito is its emphasis on codebase awareness. Their backend utilizes a code context server powered by custom Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), symbolic search, and Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) techniques. This sophisticated approach allows the platform to consume and understand data from sources like code repositories, issue trackers, and documentation, providing more precise and relevant assistance compared to models trained solely on limited open-source data. A veteran team with strong track record
Bito is not just a powerful product, it is also led by an exceptional team. Co-Founders Amar Goel (CEO) and Anand Das (CTO) have a deep history with NGP since our investment in PubMatic , which they took public in 2020. Along with Co-Founder Mukesh Agarwal (CPO), we believe this is the team capable of converting developer-led momentum to an enterprise sales motion. Speaking of developer momentum, Bito’s average DAU/MAU ratio is in the top quartile benchmark for developer tools and it runs 10k+ code reviews a week. Unlocking enterprise demand for AI Tools
We are at a unique point in the GenAI adoption curve for AI-powered developer tools where enterprises are proactively thinking about budgets. With its focus on deep contextual awareness and enterprise readiness, combined with a platform approach, Bito is well-positioned to capitalize on the demand for tools that deliver quantifiable value and productivity gains. We are excited to support Bito AI as they continue to build out their platform, enhance capabilities, and expand their reach. If you are building the next generation of AI-powered developer tools, please reach out to me at divya@ngpcap.com . I’d love to hear from you! Related articles

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SAN FRANCISCO, May 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Bito , an AI developer platform transforming how developers review and improve code by deeply understanding their codebase, today announced a $5.7 million seed extension round, led by Vela Partners, with participation from NextView Ventures, Maxitech Ventures, Eniac Ventures and others. This brings the company's total seed-stage funding to $8.8 million.  Bito is pioneering the shift to agentic AI software development for enterprises by focusing on one of the most critical and overlooked parts of the modern dev cycle: code review. Its flagship product, the AI Code Review Agent , integrates directly into GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket workflows to provide developers with line-by-line feedback, issue detection, performance optimizations, and one-click fix suggestions across over 50 programming languages. Its platform plans and reasons through code review, like how a human would. Bito deeply understands the code context and architectural design patterns of a codebase while maintaining enterprise-grade security.  Bito's AI-first code review infrastructure adapts the engineering teams to this rapidly changing world. Post this  Each week, Bito reviews and improves more than 10,000 pull requests for enterprises like Gainsight, Whatfix, and PubMatic.  “Everyone talks about writing code with AI. But production systems live and die by how well that code is reviewed, tested, and maintained,” said Amar Goel, co-founder and CEO of Bito . “With this funding, we'll deepen our technology's dynamic insight and codebase awareness to help teams navigate the flood of AI-generated and human-written code that's only just begun.”  Commonly used languages on the platform are JavaScript, Typescript, Python, and Java, with growing adoption in Go and C#. Teams that use Bito see 89% faster pull request merges, 34% fewer regressions, 87% of pull request feedback provided by AI, and $14 returns for every $1 spent on its tooling.  “Dev velocity is increasing, but reviews can't keep up. Quality slips as fewer engineers understand the whole codebase. Soon no engineers will have a handle. Bito's AI-first code review infrastructure adapts the engineering teams to this rapidly changing world,” said Yigit Ihlamur of Vela Partners  Bito's funding will be used to expand its agentic tooling and AI Code Reviews, invest in deeper integrations with CI/CD systems, and grow its team across engineering, product, and go-to-market functions.  Media Contact  Alexander Tibbets  marketing@bito.ai  SOURCE Bito  Copyright © 2025 Cision US Inc.

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