Coder is dedicated to keeping developers in flow by streamlining the code editing experience.

How it started

Coder’s three co-founders — Ammar Bandukwala, Kyle Carberry, and John Andrew Entwistle — first met online while in high school. The three were soon collaborating to build and monetize Minecraft plugins and servers, eventually moving on to a series of other projects, some successful, some not.

Frustrated by the complexities of collaborating remotely on software development, after graduation Ammar, Kyle, and John Andrew moved to Austin and started Coder to create the development tools they wish had been available for them. The trio rented a building they nicknamed “The Shack,” hired a couple of developers, and got to work.

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Today

With investments from major VC firms, Coder is now a remote-first company with products used by many of the world’s largest enterprises. Coder provides an enterprise platform and open source tools that make it easier than ever to configure, secure, and manage software development environments.

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A timeline of Coder

July 2022
July 2022
Coder surpasses 1000 GitHub stars
June 2022
June 2022
we open source Coder , our enterprise-grade remote development platform
April 2022
April 2022
code-server surpassess 200k monthly active users
August 2021
August 2021
code-server surpasses 100k monthly active users
April 2020
April 2020
Coder raises $30m in Series B funding
December 2019
December 2019
In-Q-Tel becomes Coder's first enterprise customer
November 2019
November 2019
Coder raises $11.5m in Series A funding
March 2019
March 2019
Coder releases code-server
August 2017
August 2017
Coder is founded

Our leadership Team

Rob Whiteley

CEO

Camilla Lever

Director of People

Mark Milligan

VP of Sales

Kyle Carberry

Co-founder & CTO

Ammar Bandukwala

Co-founder & CTO

Our backers

RedpointGGV CapitalFounders FundCapital FactoryIN-Q-TELUncork Capital