Grit: Fix Technical Debt Automatically

Put code migrations and dependency upgrades on autopilot

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Sep 18, 2023

NYC-based startup Grit has emerged from stealth with $7 million in seed funding to tackle the massive problem of technical debt in software development.

The company has built an AI system that can:

Analyze codebases
Automatically generate pull requests to:
- Refactor code
- Upgrade dependencies
- Migrate between frameworks
- Split monoliths
- And more

This allows development teams to move faster by automating many tedious maintenance tasks.

"Software has eaten the world, but that comes with costs," said founder and CEO Morgante. "Without proper attention, security vulnerabilities and unreliable dependencies creep in as systems atrophy. Traditional approaches to software development are ill-suited to modernizing and maintaining codebases as they grow."

Morgante started Grit just over a year ago to create "bulldozers for code" that can modify large codebases at scale.

The system allows developers to:

Express high-level goals while Grit's AI agents handle the implementation details.

Grit has already helped customers like Faire, Replit, and PromptLayer:

Save thousands of hours during lengthy migration projects
Analyze codebases to detect potential improvements
Suggest automated pull requests to enact them

The $7 million seed round was led by Founders Fund and Abstract Ventures, with participation from Quiet Capital, 8VC, A* Capital, and others.

"We are excited to back Grit's novel approach to slaying the technical debt dragon," said Founders Fund investor John Luttig. "Their technology has the potential to fundamentally change how developers work."

The funding will help Grit:

Expand its engineering team
Continue developing its AI models
Offer a freemium model
Integrate with GitHub, VS Code, Slack and more

"Our goal is for Grit to become software developers' trusted sidekick for anything related to code maintenance and modernization," said Morgante.