Potpie AI, a San Francisco, CA–based technology startup building a context layer for software engineering, has raised $2.2 million in pre-Seed funding.
Investors
The round was led by Emergent Ventures, with participation from All In Capital, DeVC, and Point One Capital.
Emergent Ventures is a Silicon Valley–based early-stage venture capital firm that invests in enterprise AI, intelligent software, and data-driven B2B startups. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, the firm provides both capital and hands-on support to help founders scale products, refine market strategies, and achieve long-term growth.
Potpie AI Use of Funds
The company will use the funds to support early enterprise deployments, expand the engineering team, and further develop Potpie’s core context and agent infrastructure.
About Potpie AI
Founded by Aditi Kothari and Dhiren Mathur, Potpie is building a foundational context layer that enables AI agents to operate across complex, large-scale codebases the way experienced engineers do. The platform is designed for enterprise companies with codebases starting at around one million lines of code and scaling up to hundreds of millions. It allows teams to automate high-impact, non-trivial tasks across the software development lifecycle, including debugging cross-service failures, writing and maintaining end-to-end tests, detecting blast radius, and system design. Headquartered in San Francisco, Potpie serves Fortune 500 and publicly listed companies in regulated industries like healthcare and insurtech.
Funding Details
Company: Potpie AI
Raised: $2.2M
Round: Pre-seed
Funding Date: February 2026
Lead Investor: Emergent Ventures
Additional Investors: All In Capital, DeVC, Point One Capital
Company Website: https://potpie.ai/
Software Category: AI-powered Engineering / Developer Tools
Source: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/02/23/3242671/0/en/Potpie-AI-raises-2-2-million-to-make-AI-agents-usable-inside-real-world-engineering-systems.html