Gitar emerged from stealth with $9 million in funding to address a growing bottleneck in software development, automating code validation and continuous integration workflows as AI-generated code accelerates. The round was led by Venrock, with participation from Sierra Ventures.
Gitar is building AI agents designed to automate pull request validation, code review, and CI triage, shifting the focus of development teams from manual oversight to automated, agent-driven workflows. The platform addresses a key industry challenge as the rapid growth of AI-generated code outpaces engineering teams’ ability to safely review, test, and deploy software.
The company’s platform introduces “agentic quality gates,” enabling AI systems to detect bugs and vulnerabilities, analyze CI failures, identify root causes, and propose automated fixes. It integrates directly with widely used developer tools such as GitHub, GitLab, Slack, Jira, and CI systems including CircleCI, Buildkite, and Jenkins.
Gitar was founded by former Uber developer platform leaders Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai and Gautam Korlam, who previously led initiatives to scale developer infrastructure and improve engineering workflows at large organizations. Their experience highlighted the increasing strain on validation processes as development velocity increases.
The platform also enables engineering teams to create custom AI agents tailored to company-specific workflows, policies, and validation requirements, thereby improving code quality, reducing bottlenecks, and accelerating deployment cycles.
Gitar is already serving dozens of enterprise and high-growth customers, including Revyl, XFactor.io, SoFi, Cadence, and Sphinx, demonstrating early traction for its approach to automating software validation.
The company’s launch reflects a broader shift in developer infrastructure toward AI-driven automation, where the bottleneck in software development is moving from writing code to ensuring its reliability and safety in production environments.
KEY QUOTES:
“The industry has focused on accelerating code generation, but the real constraint is shipping that code safely. Developers today spend too much time acting as the integration layer between CI failures, logs, fixes, and approvals. Gitar turns that process into an autonomous system that reviews and quality checks code, triages problems, diagnoses root causes, and proposes fixes so engineers can focus on delivering software.”
Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Co-Founder And Chief Executive Officer, Gitar
“We invest in teams who have a deep, firsthand understanding of the problems they’re solving, and Gitar is a strong example of that. Ali-Reza and Gautam have spent years building and scaling developer platforms at companies like Uber, Google, and Facebook, and they’ve seen how quickly validation becomes the limiting factor. They’re uniquely positioned to build the infrastructure layer that makes AI-driven development actually work in production.”
Ganesh Srinivasan, Partner, Venrock
