Thomas Dohmke, former CEO of GitHub, unveiled his new startup, Entire, with $60 million in funding (approximately CZK 1.25 billion) in a seed funding round. Silicon Valley-based Felicis, which led the investment, described the amount as the largest seed investment in the history of developer tools startups. Entire is valued at $300 million (roughly CZK 6.2 billion).
Why Current Tools Are Not Enough
Dohmke starts from a simple but fundamental idea: the tools developers use today were designed for people writing code. But that is no longer how software is built. Teams are increasingly managing entire fleets of AI coding agents that generate large volumes of code. Existing tools for version control, code review, and CI/CD were not built for this workflow.
"Just as automotive companies replaced the traditional craft production system with the moving assembly line, we must now rethink the software development lifecycle for a world where machines are the primary producers of code," Dohmke said. "That is Entire's purpose: to build the world's next developer platform, where agents and humans collaborate, learn, and deliver together."
First Product: Checkpoints
Entire introduced its first open-source project – a command-line tool called Checkpoints. It addresses a specific problem: when an AI agent writes code, the reasoning behind the changes is often lost. Checkpoints records the instructions and reasoning behind AI-generated code and stores this information alongside the code itself. This gives teams insight into how and why changes were made – which is essential when reviewing, debugging, or auditing software created by artificial intelligence.
Checkpoints launches with support for Anthropic Claude Code and Google Gemini CLI, with support for other popular agents planned. Anyone who has tried reviewing AI-generated pull requests knows the problem of staring at code without a clear explanation of its intent. Checkpoints addresses this problem directly.
What This Means for DevOps Teams
The shift Dohmke describes has real implications for how DevOps teams operate. When AI agents write most of the code, the oversight and governance layer becomes critical. Teams need to know what triggered a change, what the agent's reasoning was, and whether the output meets established standards. Current DevOps pipelines assume that the code was written by a human who understands the context. This assumption quickly breaks down when you have multiple agents generating code across the entire codebase.
According to Mitch Ashley, vice president and practice lead for Software Lifecycle Engineering at Futurum Group: "We are approaching a tipping point where the code-centric IDE paradigm no longer scales. As AI agents become the primary producers of code, the developer experience is shifting from editing files to orchestrating, overseeing, and validating automated work."
About Entire and Dohmke
Entire is entering a competitive market. Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Cursor, and others offer their own AI coding tools and platforms. Most of them, however, focus on code generation. Entire is betting that the bigger opportunity lies in what happens after the code is written – in the oversight, governance, and collaboration layer.
Dohmke moved to the US after selling his startup HockeyApp to Microsoft in 2015. He took over as CEO of GitHub in 2021 and led the company for nearly four years. He left in August to work on Entire.
The company has 15 employees and operates as a fully remote company, with team members who previously built developer tools at GitHub and Atlassian. The startup plans to expand its workforce while working toward a broader platform launch later this year. Entire is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.
