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AI company behind Devin, an autonomous software-engineering agent for planning, writing, testing and shipping production code.

Devin is an AI software engineer that works inside a team’s codebase and tools to plan tasks, write code, run tests, fix bugs, ship changes, learn project knowledge and collaborate with human engineers.

Positioning

Autonomous AI software engineer

Key facts

HQ location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Founded
2023
Employee range
(Unknown; public estimates vary)
Funding stage
Acquired
Company type
Private (Private)
Pricing model
Subscription (Subscription/seat-based plans and enterprise pricing for Devin)
Last updated
Jun 21, 2026

Revenue estimate

Undisclosed; public estimates vary

Valuation estimate

Reported >$10B in 2026; exact current valuation varies by source

Investments

Undisclosed/current total varies by source; acquired Windsurf in 2025 per Reuters

Target customers

Engineering teams and enterprises with complex software repositories

Key competitors

GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Replit, Anthropic Claude Code, OpenAI Codex

Known customers

Deployed at large and complex institutions per company; named customer list limited

Classification (raw research text)

Core focus
Autonomous software-engineering agents
Core industry
Developer Tools
Core category
AI coding agent / autonomous engineering agent

Shown verbatim from the research spreadsheet — deriving structured segment/industry tags from this text is a future phase.

Attribute breakdown

  • AI Workflows Primary focus
  • AI Automation / Business Process Automation Primary focus
  • Agent Builder / Agent Configuration Primary focus
  • Multi-agent Orchestration / Runtime Secondary feature
  • System / API Integration Secondary feature
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation Secondary feature
  • Enterprise Search / Knowledge Management Secondary feature
  • Model Deployment / Inference Infrastructure Secondary feature
  • AI Quality Assurance / LLM Evaluation Secondary feature
  • AI Security / Guardrails Secondary feature
  • Data Privacy / PII / Confidential AI Secondary feature
  • Human-in-the-Loop Review / Feedback Secondary feature
  • Enterprise App / Internal Tool Builder Secondary feature
  • Vertical-Specific AI Primary focus
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  • AI Workflows Primary focus
  • AI Automation / Business Process Automation Primary focus
  • AI Fine-tuning / Custom Model Training Not emphasized
  • Agent Builder / Agent Configuration Primary focus
  • Multi-agent Orchestration / Runtime Secondary feature
  • System / API Integration Secondary feature
  • Prompt Management / Prompt Engineering Not emphasized
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation Secondary feature
  • Graph RAG / Knowledge Graph Retrieval Not emphasized
  • Enterprise Search / Knowledge Management Secondary feature
  • AI / LLM Data Pipeline Not emphasized
  • Document AI / Document Processing Not emphasized
  • Model Deployment / Inference Infrastructure Secondary feature
  • Traditional Machine Learning Not emphasized
  • AI Quality Assurance / LLM Evaluation Secondary feature
  • AI Observability / Monitoring Not emphasized
  • AI Security / Guardrails Secondary feature
  • Data Privacy / PII / Confidential AI Secondary feature
  • AI Governance / Policy Management Not emphasized
  • AI Risk / Compliance Not emphasized
  • AI Asset Inventory / Model Registry Not emphasized
  • Human-in-the-Loop Review / Feedback Secondary feature
  • Call Transcription / Speech-to-Text Data Capture Not emphasized
  • Conversation Intelligence / Speech Analytics Not emphasized
  • Text Chatbots / Conversational Assistants Not emphasized
  • Voice AI Agents Not emphasized
  • Voice Infrastructure / STT / TTS Not emphasized
  • AI for Customer Experience / Support Automation Not emphasized
  • Sales / Revenue Intelligence Not emphasized
  • Analytics / BI / Decision Intelligence Not emphasized
  • Enterprise App / Internal Tool Builder Secondary feature
  • Vertical-Specific AI Primary focus