DeepCode gets $4M to feed its AI-powered code review tool – TechCrunch

DeepCode, a Swiss startup that's using machine learning to automate code reviews, has closed a $4M seed round, led by European VC firm Earlybird, with participation from 3VC and existing investor btov Partners. The founders described the platform as a sort of'Grammarly for coders' when we chatted to them early last year. At the they were bootstapping. Now they've bagged their first venture capital to dial their efforts up. DeepCode, which is spun-out of Swiss technical university ETH Zurich, says its code review AI is different because it doesn't just pick up syntax mistakes but is able to determine the intent of the code because it processes millions of commits -- giving it an overview that allows it to identify many more critical bugs and vulnerabilities than other tools.