WILMINGTON, DE — GitHits has raised $1.75 million in pre-seed funding and launched a beta version of its code-search platform as the startup seeks to address a growing challenge in artificial intelligence software development: inaccurate code generated by AI coding assistants.
The funding round included participation from Vendep Capital, Trind and several angel investors, including Peter Sarlin, Zach Shelby and LlamaIndex co-founder Jerry Liu. The company said the capital will support development of a platform designed to provide AI coding agents with access to open-source code repositories and software dependency information.
GitHits is entering a rapidly expanding market focused on supplying AI systems with external data and context to improve performance. The company argues that coding assistants often struggle when interacting with software frameworks, libraries and dependencies that exist outside a developer’s local codebase…