We are leading Entire’s seed round – the largest in developer tools history – as they set out to reimagine what a developer platform can be in the era of agents.
When we talk about great leaps forward, the “cars replacing horse-drawn carriages” metaphor tends to get a lot of play. But when it comes to progress, how we make things is just as important as what we make. Before the Industrial Revolution, goods were made by teams of skilled craftspeople who worked on one product at a time from start to finish. Then came the assembly line. When Ford introduced moving assembly-line production in its Model T factories, the time it took to build a car fell from 12 hours to 90 minutes. Costs collapsed. Prices fell. Demand surged. Mass markets were born.
We’re in a similar moment now. The role of the software engineer has shifted from programming to orchestration. Agents now write, review, test, secure, and deploy software. But simply plugging agents into existing workflows is starting to feel like bolting conveyor belts onto a craft workshop. The result is complexity, fragility, and cognitive overload. Engineers end up managing a growing constellation of tools, while shared context erodes, and with it, code quality and security. Because the truth is: the platforms that developers and agents centrally rely on today were built for human-human collaboration. And as a result: the entire software ecosystem has become bottlenecked by platforms that were never designed for AI in the first place. It’s time for a new, AI-native home for software development.
There is no one better equipped to build the next developer platform than Entire founder and CEO, Thomas Dohmke, along with the impressive team of globally distributed founders and engineers he has rapidly assembled from organizations like GitHub and Atlassian. Thomas understands the modern software development process – and its limits – better than almost anyone. As GitHub’s CEO, he steered the company through its AI awakening, scaling the platform to more than 150 million developers worldwide. Under his leadership, GitHub’s annual revenue climbed to over $2 billion, fueled in large part by the rise of GitHub Copilot, launched in 2022 even before ChatGPT’s arrival, which now has over 20 million users, and over 4.7 million paid subscribers.
Most importantly, when we met, we were struck by Thomas’s clarity on what’s needed next. Entire is building the next developer platform for an era of human- and AI agent collaboration. Rather than retrofitting agents into yesterday’s development process, Entire is reimagining software creation from the ground up, purpose-built for people collaborating and creating with agents. This is the assembly line of the agent era.
Entire’s new stack has three key layers:
- Version control for agents, with a new git-compatible database that goes beyond storing source code to become an intelligent system of record, capturing intent, constraints, and agent context alongside the code itself.
- A semantic reasoning layer directly tied to version control history, giving every agent persistent, shared, and pluggable memory, enabled with a CLI that captures relevant information through agent hooks and stores it in the new version control system.
- A UI that reinvents the software development lifecycle. As the number of agents used by software teams balloons, there’s a danger to software engineers getting bogged down in the management of half a dozen different tools. Entire’s UI is built to make this new role seamless, easy to manage, and joyful to use.
The result is straightforward but powerful: agents move fast, humans retain governance, organizations have sovereignty, and every decision can be traced back to intent. The first iteration of this vision, Entire Checkpoints, ships today – an open-source project that automatically captures agent context into Git on every push. Starting with Anthropic’s Claude Code and Google’s Gemini CLI today, Entire will soon bring this capability to all agents and integrate its services broadly across the developer tools ecosystem. And they will continue shipping with great velocity out in the open, as they scale their broader developer platform for release later this year.
The time is now to begin the next developer platform shift. We at Felicis are thrilled to partner with Entire as we set out together to build a new home for 1 billion developers and agents.
