Startup Kodesage secures seed funding to accelerate on-premises app modernization with AI
Legacy code modernization startup Kodesage Ltd. said today it has closed on a $6.6 million seed funding round to accelerate its mission of helping enterprises transform their on-premises software stacks.
The round was led by VentureFriends and saw participation from Portfolion and a couple of notable angel investors: Google Scholar Christian Szegedy, who helped Elon Musk found xAI Corp., and Mario Götze, the German international footballer and former World Cup winner.
Kodesage is building an artificial intelligence platform that helps businesses to extract information from the code of their most complex legacy software stacks. This information is fed into a live “knowledge layer” that can be used to rebuild critical applications in modern programming languages with minimal hassle and zero risk.
According to co-founder and Chief Executive Gergely Dombi, Kodesage can fully automate the discovery of legacy codebases, generate and maintain documentation and then facilitate migration operations with context-aware code conversion and automated test development. He said he built Kodesage along with his friends Miklos Szurdi and Gyorgy Szilagyi after previously establishing a 300-plus-person software consulting firm that specialized in modernizing legacy software systems. Because they were human-led, the consultancy’s projects were almost always slow affairs, reliant on the expertise of just one or two experts in the targeted systems.
