Startup
Kiro
AWS's spec-driven agentic IDE, CLI and autonomous cloud agent.
Kiro is an agentic AI coding tool built and operated by AWS that helps developers plan, build and review software. Its spec-driven workflow turns prompts into requirements, architectural designs and sequenced tasks before code is written, then implements them with parallel agents. Hooks run background tasks such as adding tests or updating docs when code changes, and steering files carry project context across surfaces. Kiro ships as an IDE, a CLI that can run headless in CI/CD, Kiro Web with an autonomous mode running in isolated cloud sandboxes, a mobile app, and Kiro Crew, an open-source workspace.
People
13.6K subscribers
Official YouTube channel
Cursor & IDE agents · Multi-agent orchestration · Cost & limits
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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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