

Bito Inc., the creator of an artificial intelligence-driven code review platform, is looking to take on GitHub Copilot and other players in the coding industry after closing on $5.7 million in funding today.
The seed funding round was led by Vela Partners and saw participation from NextView Ventures, Maxitech Ventures, Eniac Ventures and others, bringing the startup’s total amount raised to $8.8 million, following an earlier pre-seed round.
Bito says it’s tackling one of the most overlooked parts of the modern software development lifecycle, namely the code review process that’s essential before any new software updates can be shipped.
Normally, this task used to fall on the shoulders of human developers. But with Bito, companies can instead offload the burden onto its AI Code Review Agent, an advanced coding intelligent assistant that can spot issues with code and suggest and even implement fixes on its own.
The startup says its AI Code Review Agent can be integrated directly into code repositories such as BitBucket, GitHub and GitLab, as well as developers’ command line interfaces, whichever they’re more comfortable with. Once up and running, the agent will automatically review any and all pieces of code fed into it, providing line-by-line feedback.
The agent will detect any issues with the code, suggest fixes to those problems, and also offer suggestions in terms of performance optimization. Its recommendations can then be implemented with a single click. What’s more, it’s compatible with more than 50 programming languages, such as JavaScript, Typescript, Python, Java, Go and C#.
Bito says its code review agent is different from similar offerings because it uses advanced reasoning, meaning it works in the same way as a human programmer would. All of its decisions are based on a deep understanding of an organization’s architectural design patterns, and are focused on improving the performance, scalability and security of the code before it moves to the peer review stage.
The company claims that its AI has a significant advantage over GitHub Copilot because it possesses a comprehensive understanding of the user’s entire codebase, meaning it can provide better, context-aware assistance to coders. For instance, it uses advanced techniques such as Abstract Syntax Tree parsing, which provides insight into the structural and syntactical aspects of the code to better understand its logical constructs and dependencies.
It also relies on symbol indexing, creating a searchable database of variables, functions, classes and so on, so the agent can track how they’re used throughout the codebase. In addition, it also captures the semantic relationships and patterns within the code, so it can process it in a more humanlike way.
Users can choose from a selection of large language models to power their code review agent, or they can let it decide by itself which model is the best fit for a certain task. All interactions happen over HTTPS, with full encryption of data in transit, so the code is never exposed.
Bito reckons that it has made good progress so far, with its AI agents reviewing and improving more than 10,000 pull requests each week for enterprises including the ad software firm PubMatic Inc. and the customer success platform provider Gainsight Software Ltd. According to Bito, those customers see 89% faster pull request merges, 34% fewer regressions and a return of $14 on average for every $1 spent.
Bito co-founder and Chief Executive Amar Goel said code review is ripe for AI automation because production systems live and die by how well their underlying code is reviewed, tested and maintained. Going forward, the plan is to expand Bito’s agentic tooling, enhance its integrations with development software, and grow the company’s engineering, product and go-to-market teams.
“We’ll expand our product capabilities and help teams navigate the flood of AI-generated and human-written code that’s only just begun,” Goel said.
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