Gitar Emerges From Stealth With $9M
Gitar, a San Francisco, CA–based developer infrastructure company, has emerged from stealth with $9 million in funding.
The round was led by Venrock, with participation from Sierra Ventures.
Venrock is a U.S.-based venture capital firm that invests in startups, typically from Seed to Series A/B stages, and helps them scale through both capital and strategic support. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, the firm focuses on early-stage investments across technology, healthcare, and life sciences.
The funding will support the development and expansion of Gitar’s AI agents that automate code review, CI validation, and software delivery workflows.
Founded by Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai and Gautam Korlam, Gitar is a developer infrastructure company that builds AI agents to automate pull request validation and continuous integration workflows. The company focuses on solving the growing bottleneck in software development caused by the surge of AI-generated code. Its platform introduces agentic quality gates that automate code review, detect bugs and vulnerabilities, analyze CI failures, and generate fixes, enabling faster and safer software delivery. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Gitar serves dozens of enterprise and high-growth companies, including Revyl, XFactor.io, SoFi, Cadence, Sphinx, and more.
Funding Details
Company: Gitar, Inc.
Raised: $9.0M
Round: Unknown
Funding Date: April 2026
Lead Investor: Venrock
Additional Investors: Sierra Ventures
Company Website: https://gitar.ai/
Software Category: Developer Infrastructure / AI Code Validation & CI Automation