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CodeSee adds generative AI to explore code bases with natural language queries
July 19, 2023
CodeSee was founded in 2019 with the goal of helping programmers understand the entire code base inside a company. The idea was to provide visual maps, so you could see the connections between services and systems and how changes might affect the different links. Today, the company announced it was adding a generative AI capability to the platform, making it easy to ask questions about the code base in natural language. TechCrunch
At CodeSee Shanea Leven is building a business based on trust and transparency
October 21, 2022
At CodeSee Shanea Leven is building a culture that allows her employees to feel comfortable being themselves. She knows, from personal experience, that’s not always the case in tech. San Francisco Business Times
One of Silicon Valley’s most exclusive clubs just got bigger. Here’s a list of Black women who raised more than $1 million in VC funding last year
January 25, 2022
Maia Tekle (Dispatch Goods), Elise Smith (Praxis Labs), Shanea Leven (co-founder of CodeSee) and Fatima Dicko (founder of Sugar) were featured on Business Insider’s list of Black female founders who’ve raised more than $1 million! Business Insider
CodeSee pulls in a $7M secondary seed to build out code visualization platform
January 20, 2022
CodeSee is an aptly named startup, one that is building a set of tools to help developers understand how all the parts of a code base fit together. Today, the company announced a $7 million secondary seed on top of the $3 million it received in 2020. The round was led by new investors Wellington Access Ventures, Plexo Capital and Menlo Ventures along with several industry angels who had participated in the first seed investment. TechCrunch
Shanea Leven Creates CodeSee To Automate Codebase Mapping
November 22, 2021
Some applications may require millions of lines of code written by thousands of developers over time. Yet few developers have a complete understanding of how their entire codebase is interconnected because the tool to simplify that process didn’t exist – until now. Shanea Leven set out to change that with CodeSee, an application that automates the process of analyzing the data flowing through a software developer’s system to maintain an updated map of system architecture, its components and the connections between them. Forbes
11 Black female founders who’ve raised more than $25 million in funding share the books that helped them navigate the VC landscape
November 14, 2021
Books are valuable resources for entrepreneurs as they provide worthwhile lessons on topics such as building a business, managing employees, and even fundraising. Shanea Leven, co-founder of CodeSee, Tiffany Dufu, founder of The Cru, Courtney Caldwell, co-founder of ShearShare, and Jasmine Crowe, founder of Goodr, shared the books that helped them navigate the VC landscape and raise over $25M in funding. Business Insider
Women in Tech: “The next generation will benefit from our resilience”
October 27, 2021
Four years ago, we launched a diversity series aimed at bringing the most inspirational and powerful women in the tech scene to your attention. Today, we’d like you to meet Shanea Leven, co-founder and CEO of CodeSee. Shanea Leven is founder and CEO of CodeSee, a developer tool that helps developers and teams better onboard, review, and understand codebases. Prior to CodeSee, Shanea led teams that delivered high-quality products and features for leading companies including Google, Docker, eBay and Cloudflare. JAXenter
CodeSee launches OSS Port open source project to help developers visualize code base
September 30, 2021
The larger a coding project gets, and the more people become involved, the harder it becomes to get a big picture view of how the entire project fits together, and this is especially true for distributed teams. Today, CodeSee, an early stage startup that wants to help development teams understand the entire code base, released OSS Port, an open source project designed to help disparate open source teams do just that. TechCrunch
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