Dunedin startup CodeLingo raises NZ$540,000 from Reinventure and Right Click Capital

Dunedin startup CodeLingo has raised NZ$540,000 ($494,000) in seed funding from Australian venture capital firms Right Click Capital and Reinventure.

The funding will go towards further development of the startup’s tech, expanding its team, and scaling its business operations.

Founded in 2016, CodeLingo looks to address the problem of technical debt by enabling software development teams to scale the processes they use to improve code quality, such as code reviews and real-time crash debugging, streamlining their manual quality assurance process.

The idea came to founder and CEO Jesse Meek, a developer, following a negative performance review. Rather than dwelling, Meek sought to get to the heart of the problem and determined that it lay with the process of scaling software development.

Meek said, “Software development has outgrown the engineering analogy for quite some time now. However, still too many code quality tools assume generic engineering style coding rules and workflows. In practice, teams typically develop their own coding norms and processes, which don’t get picked up by Linters and other code quality tools, and often get passed on informally.

“This approach breaks in larger teams, and particularly in an increasingly open source world of highly-distributed developer communities. CodeLingo is empowering teams to codify their own norms at scale.”

The startup brought on a number of early alpha clients last year. Read more

Gina Baldassare - Startup Daily - 15 Jan 2018