Tech Company Financing Transactions

Kite Funding Round

Kite, based in San Francisco, secured $17 million from Trinity Ventures and private investors.

Transaction Overview

Company Name

Kite

Announced On

1/29/2019

Transaction Type

Venture Equity

Amount

$17,000,000

Round

Series A

Investors

Trinity Ventures (Lead Investor) (Daniel Scholnick)

private investors (Drew Houston)

private investors (Emmett Shear)

private investors (Joshua Reeves)

private investors (Kyle Vogt)

private investors (Max Levchin)

Proceeds Purpose

Kite will use this new funding to expand their R&D team and build the next set of breakthrough features for accelerating developer productivity.

Company Information

Company Status

Private & Independent

Industry

Enterprise IT

Mailing Address

1 Front St. 1850
San Francisco, CA 94111
USA

Phone

Undisclosed

Website

www.kite.com

Email Address

[email protected]

Overview

Similar to Smart Compose for Gmail, Kite suggests relevant code snippets in real time as you type. Kite trains its machine learning models with thousands of publicly available code sources from highly rated developers. Kite is a plugin currently available for all of the most popular coding environments in Python, including Atom, Pycharm and VS Code.

Profile

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Company News

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Management Team

Title

Name

Email & Social

Chief Executive Officer

Adam Smith

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