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GitHits Secures €1.5M Pre-Seed to Build AI Code Search

6/17/2026

Summary

Story summary

GitHits raised €1.5 million in pre-seed funding on June 16, 2026.
The round was led by Vendep Capital and included Trind, Peter Sarlin, Zach Shelby and Jerry Liu.
GitHits will use the capital to develop an AI-native code search engine and launch a beta product later this year.
The AI-native index will help developers find open-source examples, inspect dependencies and identify vulnerabilities.
CEO Jaakko Timonen and CTO Olli-Pekka Heinisuo founded GitHits in 2025.

History

Historical Context

GitHub unveiled Copilot on 29 June 2021, a Microsoft-OpenAI partnership that quickly attracted over 10 million active users and prompted a $1 billion Microsoft investment. The tool’s success sparked a wave of AI-driven developer services, enabling the 2025 launch of GitHits—founded by Jaakko Timonen and Olli-Pekka Heinisuo—and its €1.5 million pre-seed round to build an AI-native code-search engine for vulnerability detection.

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Story summary

GitHits raised €1.5 million in pre-seed funding on June 16, 2026.
The round was led by Vendep Capital and included Trind, Peter Sarlin, Zach Shelby and Jerry Liu.
GitHits will use the capital to develop an AI-native code search engine and launch a beta product later this year.
The AI-native index will help developers find open-source examples, inspect dependencies and identify vulnerabilities.
CEO Jaakko Timonen and CTO Olli-Pekka Heinisuo founded GitHits in 2025.

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