Thomas Dohmke, the former CEO of Microsoft’s GitHub, has launched a new startup, Entire, securing a landmark $60 million in seed funding. The round, which sets a new record for a developer tool startup, was led by Felicis and places the company at a $300 million valuation. Entire is developing an open-source tool designed to help developers manage the massive influx of code being written by AI agents.
Tackling The AI Code Deluge
The rapid proliferation of AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot has created a new challenge for development teams: managing an overwhelming volume of AI-generated code. This surge often leads to what is termed “AI slop”—poorly designed or unusable code contributions that can swamp open-source projects and enterprise teams alike. Entire aims to bring order to this new reality.
In a press release, Dohmke highlighted the urgency of the problem. “We are living through an agent boom, and now massive volumes of code are being generated faster than any human could reasonably understand,” he explained. “The truth is, our manual system of software production — from issues, to git repositories, to pull requests, to deployment — was never designed for the era of AI in the first place.”
Inside Entire’s Open Source Toolkit
Entire’s solution is built on three core components. The first is a git-compatible database designed to unify all AI-produced code into a single, manageable system. The second is a “universal semantic reasoning layer,” which enables multiple AI agents to collaborate effectively. The final piece is an AI-native user interface built specifically for seamless agent-to-human collaboration.
The company’s first product, an open-source tool named Checkpoints, automatically links every piece of AI-generated code with its original context, including the prompts and transcripts that created it. This provides human developers with the ability to review, search, and understand the AI’s decision-making process, ensuring better quality control and oversight.
A Landmark Seed Round For Developer Tools
The $60 million seed round underscores significant investor confidence in Dohmke’s vision and the critical need for new tooling in the AI era. Dohmke, who led GitHub for four years and oversaw the rise of its popular Copilot tool, left the company in August 2025 to pursue this new venture.
The funding round saw participation from a prominent list of investors, including Madrona, M12, Basis Set, Harry Stebbings, Jerry Yang, and Datadog founder and CEO Olivier Pomel, signaling strong industry backing for Entire’s mission.
Relevance To The MENA Tech Ecosystem
While Entire is a US-based venture, its mission resonates deeply with the rapidly evolving MENA tech landscape. As startups and enterprises across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and beyond accelerate their adoption of AI, their development teams are facing the same challenges of managing AI-generated code. The region’s thriving tech hubs are increasingly reliant on AI to build and scale products, making tools that ensure code quality and developer productivity more critical than ever. This record-breaking funding round for an AI-native dev tool highlights a significant market opportunity that MENA-based VCs and founders should watch closely, as similar deep-tech solutions could become essential for sustaining the region’s technological growth.
About Entire
Entire is a startup founded by former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke that offers an open-source tool to help developers better manage, review, and understand code written by AI agents. The company aims to modernize the software production pipeline for the era of AI-driven development.
Source: TechCrunch
