Startup
IBM Bob
IBM's AI coding partner for the codebase, the IDE and the command line.
IBM Bob is an AI coding partner that works inside your codebase, in your IDE and from the command line. It can spawn focused agents and subagents that run tasks in parallel, each with its own context, tools and skills. The site offers downloads, a free trial and pricing.
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San Francisco, CA · Est. 2023
Devin, the AI software engineer, and the Windsurf IDE.
Cognition builds Devin, an autonomous AI software engineer that plans and executes engineering tasks end-to-end, and acquired the Windsurf agentic IDE in 2025. One of the defining startups of the coding-agent wave.
~$10.2B valuation (Sep 2025)
San Francisco, CA · Est. 2022
The AI-native code editor where agent mode lives.
Cursor rebuilt the IDE around models: tab completion, in-editor chat and agent mode that plans multi-file edits and runs commands. Its rise set the pace for the entire coding-agent market.
~$29B valuation (late 2025)
San Francisco, CA · Est. 2023
Droids: AI workers for software teams.
Factory's 'droids' take engineering tickets from issue to pull request, with sandboxed environments and enterprise controls — agents as members of the dev workflow.
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