Greptile
YC W24San Francisco, US Β· Founded 2023 Β· 35 employees Β· 3 known investors
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Greptile provides AI agents that review and test pull requests by constructing a graph index of the codebase and using a swarm of agents to detect code quality issues, security risks, and logical bugs across multiple files. The platform serves software development teams and integrates with GitHub and GitLab.
Also known as Onboard AI Β· Greptile Β· greptileai
Founders & leadershipΒ· Y Combinator alumni (W24)
Greptile was founded in 2023 by Daksh Gupta, Soohoon Choi, and Vaishant Kameswaran.



Investors Β· 3
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$25M disclosed across 1 of 4 rounds Β· 2024β2025
- $25MSeries ASep 2025 Β· 2 sources
Benchmark Capital (lead), Cory Levy, Initialized Capital, Y Combinator
Source β - Undisclosed amountSeries AJul 2025
Benchmark (lead)
Source β
Source: company announcements and press reports β follow each round's link for the claim.
The YC applicationΒ· Winter 2024 batch
Company profile
researched Sep 2026Greptile is a San Francisco-based developer tools company that makes an AI code review agent. The product connects to GitHub or GitLab, builds a graph index of an entire repository β files, functions, classes and dependencies β and then runs a swarm of parallel agents over each pull request to assess the impact of changes beyond the diff. Findings are posted as PR comments, typically in about three minutes, with suggested fixes. Unlike file-by-file linters, the system is designed to catch multi-file logical bugs, security risks and style violations by reasoning across the whole system.
The agent personalizes over time: it reads other engineers' PR comments to learn a team's coding standards, incorporates thumbs-up/thumbs-down reactions and replies to suppress irrelevant suggestions, and auto-detects existing convention files such as CLAUDE.md and .cursor/rules. Teams can also write custom rules in plain English. Greptile positions itself as a "central validation layer" that sits between coding agents and production: review comments can be handed off in one click to Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Conductor or Devin, a Greptile MCP server exposes comment context and learned rules to any AI agent, and a /greploop command lets a coding agent iterate with Greptile until issues are resolved. A newer agent, TREX, writes and runs tests for each PR in a sandbox to surface missed edge cases. Additional integrations include Jira and Notion, so a review can check a PR against the requirements of its linked ticket.
Greptile is offered as a cloud service (SOC 2 Type II) or self-hosted via Docker Compose or Kubernetes/Helm, including air-gapped environments and customer-supplied LLM providers, with SSO/SAML and audit logs for enterprise buyers. Twelve languages are listed as fully supported (Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, Elixir, Java, C, C++, C#, Swift, PHP, Rust), with other languages supported at lower quality. The company also maintains public repositories including on-prem Helm charts (akupara), a CLI, a VS Code extension, a Codex plugin and agent skills.
Founding story
The three founders β Daksh Gupta, Soohoon Choi and Vaishant Kameswaran β met through Georgia Tech, where Gupta and Choi graduated in 2023 and Kameswaran studied computer science. They entered Georgia Tech's CREATE-X Startup Launch program with a different product, an AI shopping assistant called Tabnam, and pivoted after customer discovery showed their technology was better suited to software development. Gupta has credited CREATE-X with introducing him to co-founder Choi. Press coverage reports the company began in 2023 during a hackathon in San Francisco's South of Market district.
Business model
B2B SaaS sold on a per-seat subscription with credit-based usage. A free Starter tier covers one active developer with unlimited repositories and 50 credits per month; the Pro tier is $30 per seat per month including 50 credits per seat, with additional credits at $1 each. One credit equals one standard review and three credits equal one TREX review. Enterprise deployments add self-hosting, SSO, audit logs and dedicated support, and the review engine is also available via API with discounted bulk pricing.
Recurring per-seat subscription revenue plus consumption-based credit purchases, with API licensing at bulk rates and enterprise/self-hosted contracts.
Traction
The company's site states that more than 22,000 teams use Greptile; a January 2026 Georgia Tech article cites more than 2,000 customers. Greptile reported reviewing over 500 million lines of code in September 2025 and preventing more than 180,000 bugs that month, and its documentation claims 100,000+ bugs caught in production per month, an average review time of about three minutes and 9x faster time to merge. At its Y Combinator launch the company cited 250+ companies using the product. Y Combinator lists a team size of 35; a December 2024 press report described six employees at that time.
Latest developments
In September 2025 Greptile announced a $25 million Series A led by Benchmark Capital, with continued participation from Cory Levy, Y Combinator and Initialized Capital, and released Greptile v3 β a rewrite of the agent architecture with learning from human PR comments, a Greptile MCP server, Jira and Notion integrations, auto-detection of CLAUDE.md and .cursorrules files, and copyable prompts for coding agents. A January 2026 Georgia Tech article reported total capital raised of $30 million and a $180 million valuation, with more than 2,000 customers. The company is also offering early access to TREX, an agent that autonomously writes and runs tests for every pull request.
βΈFull profile β market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies
Market position
Greptile competes in the AI code review category alongside other automated PR review tools, positioning itself as a model- and vendor-independent validation layer for code produced by both humans and coding agents such as Devin, Claude Code and Cursor. The company reports that its v3 agent outperformed the other code reviewers it tested and catches three times more critical bugs than v2.
Whole-repository graph context rather than isolated file analysis, a learning loop that adapts to a team's standards from existing human PR comments and reactions to reduce noise, one-click handoff of findings into third-party coding agents and IDEs, autonomous test generation and execution via TREX, and deployment flexibility including air-gapped self-hosting with customer-supplied LLMs.
Technology
The core technology is a graph index of the repository capturing files, functions, classes and dependencies, over which parallel review agents operate. Version 3, released in September 2025, was a complete rewrite of the agent architecture. Supporting components include a learning system that mines human PR comments and reactions (with learnings isolated per organization), an MCP server, integrations with Jira and Notion, auto-detection of agent rule files, and the TREX agent that generates and executes tests in a sandbox. Deployment options span Greptile Cloud, Docker Compose, Kubernetes with Helm and air-gapped installs with customer-chosen LLM providers.
Go-to-market
Self-serve product-led adoption via a free tier and a five-minute GitHub/GitLab app install, complemented by a sales-led motion for enterprise and self-hosted deployments. Greptile offers free usage to qualified open source projects and discounts to pre-Series A startups, and demonstrates the product publicly by posting reviews on prominent open source repositories such as NVIDIA DALI, Meta PyTorch's OpenEnv and Solana Foundation's kora. Distribution is extended through IDE and agent integrations (Claude Code plugin, MCP server, Codex plugin, CLI) and through the Y Combinator network.
Software engineering teams and enterprises, including regulated and security-sensitive sectors such as defense, healthcare and financial services. Named users include Brex, Substack, PostHog, Bilt, Whoop, WorkOS, Browserbase, Mintlify, Bland, RollCredits, Raycast, Podium, Vouch and Y Combinator's internal software team.
Geography
Headquartered in San Francisco, with offices reported in the Transamerica Pyramid. The product is delivered as a cloud service or deployed in customer infrastructure.
History
Founded in 2023, Greptile joined Y Combinator's Winter 2024 batch (primary partner Brad Flora), launching publicly as an AI expert on large codebases used by developers at 250+ companies for codebase Q&A, documentation updates and API-built PR review bots. It closed a $4.1 million seed round led by Initialized Capital in June 2024 and shipped Greptile 2.0 in October 2024. In November 2024 founder Daksh Gupta drew widespread attention for publicly describing an 84-hour-per-week, no-work-life-balance culture. Subsequent releases included a May 2025 update adding long-term memory, MCP integrations, scoped rules and lower pricing. In September 2025 the company announced a $25 million Series A led by Benchmark Capital alongside Greptile v3.
Risks & controversies
In November 2024, founder Daksh Gupta's public statements that Greptile offers "no work-life balance," with typical workdays from 9 a.m. to at least 11 p.m. Monday through Saturday and sometimes Sundays, went viral and drew criticism that the approach was exploitative and a path to burnout; Gupta said he received death threats alongside job applications and later wrote that the schedule "isn't supposed to be forever because it isn't sustainable." Reported figures for customer counts vary across sources (22,000+ teams per the company site versus 2,000+ customers in a January 2026 article), and performance claims such as 3x more bugs caught and 9x faster merges are self-reported.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources β announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed β not independently audited.
Founder mafia
The Greptile mafia β6 people who came through Greptile went on to found or lead other companies.
Competitors Β· 10
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Timeline Β· 8
launches, deals, and filingsGreptile announced a $25 million Series A led by Benchmark Capital with continued support from Cory Levy, Y Combinator and Initialized Capital.
$25M source β
A complete rewrite of the core agent architecture, adding learning from human PR comments, a Greptile MCP server, Jira and Notion integrations, auto-detection of CLAUDE.md and .cursorrules, and copyable prompts for coding agents. The company states v3 catches 3x more critical bugs than v2.
Update introducing long-term memory, MCP integrations, scoped rules and pricing reduced by 40%.
TREX, a Greptile agent that writes and runs tests for every pull request in a sandbox to catch bugs and missed edge cases, opened for early access.
Founder Daksh Gupta publicly stated that Greptile offers no work-life balance, with workdays from 9 a.m. to at least 11 p.m. Monday to Saturday and sometimes Sundays. The posts went viral, generating debate over whether the approach was exploitative.
Release of Greptile 2.0, described as a platform for codebase understanding with code reviews, JIRA integration and custom workflows.
Greptile closed a $4.1 million seed funding round led by Initialized Capital in June 2024; a June 6, 2024 news item covering the raise is listed on the company's Y Combinator profile.
$4.1M source β
Greptile launched via Y Combinator as an AI platform letting LLMs understand large codebases, with teams at 250+ companies using it for codebase Q&A, documentation updates and API-built PR review bots.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
In the news
βΈResearch sources Β· 8
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Greptile do?
- Greptile builds an AI code review agent that indexes a codebase as a graph and reviews pull requests with full repo context.
- Who founded Greptile?
- Greptile was founded by Daksh Gupta, Soohoon Choi, Vaishant Kameswaran in 2023.
- Who are Greptile's investors?
- Greptile's investors include Y Combinator, Benchmark, Initialized Capital.
- How much funding has Greptile raised?
- Greptile has disclosed $25M raised across 1 of its 4 known rounds.
- Where is Greptile headquartered?
- Greptile is headquartered in San Francisco, US.











