Macroscope Launch!
It's 🚀 Macroscope launch day!
If you're a software development team, you can use Macroscope to understand your code base. It can answer questions like “what did the team get done this week?” and automate code reviews. Check it out: https://prasso.ai/
And it's an especially fun day for us at 💚 Adverb Ventures because this is one of the first investments we co-led when we started our firm. We've known founders Kayvon Beykpour, Joe Bernstein and Rob Bishop for many years having worked alongside them at Twitter after acquiring their prior start-ups. We wanted to be their partner in whatever they built next. And we are literally working alongside them (again) in this new chapter as they’ve been co-working with us in the Presidio.
We're so delighted to be able to share more about it now that it's public. Congrats Kayvon Beykpour, Joe, Rob and the whole Macroscope team!
A bit more about why we're so excited about this opportunity:
Software development is evolving at record speed, and new challenges in overseeing AI-written code are colliding with the age-old difficulties that come with dozens, hundreds, or thousands of engineers collaborating in a shared codebase.
Ask any engineering leader - or product leader, or CEO - and you’ll find that the lack of visibility into how their codebase is evolving keeps them up at night. And ask any engineer embracing the new era of AI-driven tools, and they’ll bemoan the amount of time they spend in code reviews - for human- and AI-written code alike. The promise of these tools is massive, but if it already took tons of manual “accounting” to understand how an engineering organization is contributing to a code base - well, wait until the AI code engineers show up in your code base!
The age of AI-powered software engineering requires a new toolkit, and presents the opportunity for a new level in the developer stack - codebase understanding. Previously locked up in the heads of the most tenured or senior engineers in your organization, Macroscope (launching today, after a beta in stealth for the past year) will synthesize, summarize, and answer what’s happening in your code base, helping engineers and senior leaders be good stewards of the most precious resource your company has - engineering bandwidth.
Founders Kayvon Beykpour, Joe Bernstein, and Rob Bishop bring experience building at scale at Twitter, and through prior experience as the founders of Periscope and Magic Pony. This is a team we at Adverb would have backed no matter what they were building, but seeing them take the lead on a new category which will be foundational for the AI era has been a joy.
We at Adverb Ventures are grateful to have partnered with them from day one along with our co-leads Thrive and GV and welcome Michael Mignano and Lightspeed as the leads for the Series A!
We are delighted to see them emerge from stealth so more companies can learn first-hand what we already know - that Macroscope is a no-brainer for any software development team.