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'''Sourcegraph Inc.''' is a company developing code search and code intelligence
The company has two products available: Cody and Code Search. Code Search was initially released in 2013 under the name Sourcegraph, but was rebranded to Code Search when the company unveiled Cody in 2023. Both products support all major programming languages.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/sourcegraph-3.0 |title=Announcing Sourcegraph 3.0 |last=Slack |first=Quinn |date=2019-02-08 |website=Sourcegraph official website |access-date=2022-11-18}}</ref>
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Sourcegraph Inc. was founded in by [[Stanford University|Stanford]] graduates Quinn Slack and Beyang Liu to drive the development of a code search and code intelligence tool, formerly called Sourcegraph. It was first released in 2013<ref name="vb1">{{Cite web |last=Sawers |first=Paul |date=2020-03-03 |title=Sourcegraph raises $23 million to bring universal code search to all developers |url=https://venturebeat.com/business/sourcegraph-raises-23-million-to-bring-universal-code-search-to-all-developers/ |access-date=2022-11-18 |website=VentureBeat}}</ref><ref name="at">{{Cite web |last=Salter |first=Jim |date=2020-10-01 |title=Sourcegraph: Devs are managing 100x more code now than they did in 2010 |url=https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/10/sourcegraph-devs-are-managing-100x-more-code-now-than-they-did-in-2010/ |access-date=2022-11-18 |website=Ars Technica}}</ref> but was rebranded to Code Search in 2023. It was partly inspired by Liu's experience using [[Google Code Search]] while he was a Google intern,<ref name="cl">{{Cite podcast |url=https://changelog.com/podcast/217 |title=Sourcegraph the 'Google for Code' |website=Changelog |host=Adam Stacoviak |date=2016-08-16 |access-date=2022-11-21 }}</ref> It was designed to "tackle the big code problem" by enabling developers to manage large [[codebase]]s that span multiple repositories, programming languages, file formats, and projects.<ref name="vb2">{{Cite web |last=Sawers |first=Paul |date=2020-12-03 |title=Sourcegraph raises $50 million to tackle 'big code' problems with universal search |url=https://venturebeat.com/business/sourcegraph-raises-50-million-to-tackle-big-code-problems-with-universal-search/ |access-date=2022-11-21 |website=VentureBeat}}</ref>
Code Search was initially self-hosted by each customer on their own infrastructure.<ref name="vb4">{{Cite web |last=Sawers |first=Paul |date=2021-08-19 |title=Sourcegraph plans to index the entire open source web |url=https://venturebeat.com/business/sourcegraph-plans-to-index-the-entire-open-source-web/ |access-date=2022-10-03 |website=VentureBeat |language=en-US}}</ref> Early customers included [[Uber]], [[Dropbox]], and [[Lyft]].<ref name="vb4" /><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/enterprise-cloud |title=Sourcegraph Cloud: secure, scalable, dedicated instances for enterprises |last=Slack |first=Quinn |date=2022-09-27 |access-date=2022-11-21 |website=Sourcegraph Blog}}</ref> In 2016, Code Search was criticized<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.techrepublic.com/article/fair-source-licensing-is-the-worst-thing-to-happen-to-open-source-definitely-maybe/ |title=Fair Source licensing is the worst thing to happen to open source-definitely maybe |last=Asay |first=Matt |date=2016-04-01 |access-date=2022-11-21 |website=TechRepublic|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107170119/https://www.techrepublic.com/article/fair-source-licensing-is-the-worst-thing-to-happen-to-open-source-definitely-maybe/ |archive-date=2021-11-07 }}</ref> for being provided with a Fair Source License with the developers explaining<ref>{{cite report |first=Nadia |last=Eghbal |date=2016 |title=Roads and bridges. The Unseen labor behind our digital infrastructure |url=http://brochures.sisalp.fr/roads-and-bridges-the-unseen-labor-behind-our-digital-infrastructure.pdf |pages=94–95 |access-date=2022-12-14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Fair Source License |url=https://fair.io/?a |access-date=2022-11-21 |website=Fair Source License official website}}</ref><ref name="cl" /> that "all of
In 2019, Code Search was integrated into the [[GitLab]] codebase, giving GitLab users access to a [[Web browser|browser]]-based developer platform.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Native code intelligence is coming to GitLab |url=https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2019/11/12/sourcegraph-code-intelligence-integration-for-gitlab/ |access-date=2022-10-03 |website=GitLab |language=en}}</ref> In 2021, a browser-based portal became available, allowing users to browse open-source projects and personal private code for free.<ref name="vb4" />
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Sourcegraph has raised a total of almost $225 million in financing to date. Its most recent $125 million Series D investment in 2021 valued the company at $2.625 billion, a 300% growth from its previous valuation in 2020.<ref name="tc2">{{Cite web |last=Miller |first=Ron |date=2021-07-13 |title=Sourcegraph raises $125M Series D on $2.6B valuation for universal code search tool |url=https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/13/sourcegraph-raises-125m-series-d-on-2-6b-valuation-for-universal-code-search-tool/ |access-date=2022-10-03 |website=TechCrunch |language=en-US}}</ref>
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| July 2021
| Series D round
| 125,000,000<ref name="tc2" />
| 4
| [[Andreessen Horowitz]]
|-
| December 2020
| Series C round
| 50,000,000<ref name="vb22">{{Cite web |last=Sawers |first=Paul |date=2020-12-03 |title=Sourcegraph raises $50 million to tackle
| 1
| [[Sequoia Capital]]
|-
| July 2020
| Series B round
| 5,000,000<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-07-15 |title=Sourcegraph Raises Additional $5M in Series B Funding |url=https://www.finsmes.com/2020/07/sourcegraph-raises-additional-5m-in-series-b-funding.html |access-date=2022-10-03 |website=FINSMES}}</ref>
| 1
| Felicis Ventures
|-
| March 2020
| Series B round
| 23,000,000<ref name="vb12">{{Cite web |last=Sawers |first=Paul |date=2020-03-03 |title=Sourcegraph raises $23 million to bring universal code search to all developers |url=https://venturebeat.com/business/sourcegraph-raises-23-million-to-bring-universal-code-search-to-all-developers/ |access-date=2022-11-18 |website=VentureBeat}}</ref>
| 3
| [[Craft Ventures]]
|-
| October 2017
| Series A round
| 20,000,000<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-10-06 |title=Sourcegraph Raises $20M in Series A Funding |url=https://www.finsmes.com/2017/10/sourcegraph-raises-20m-in-series-a-funding.html |access-date=2022-12-05 |website=FINSMES}}</ref>
| 3
| Goldcrest Capital, [[Redpoint Ventures|Redpoint]]
|}
In 2023 Sourcegraph Inc. unveiled their new product Cody, and rebranded Sourcegraph to Code Search.
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* Search: Code can be searched and navigated through the Sourcegraph web interface or through browser and [[Integrated development environment|IDE]] extensions and [[text editor]] plugins.<ref name="lwn" />
* Navigation: jumps to the definition of a variable or function, or find all references to it in a codebase.<ref name="lwn" />
* Batch Changes: Enables developers and companies to automate and track large-scale code refactoring, security fixes, and migrations across repositories and code hosts.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-03-24 |title=Sourcegraph Batch Changes Offers Automation for Large-Scale Code Changes |url=https://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Sourcegraph-Batch-Changes-Offers-Automation-for-Large-Scale-Code-Changes-145930.aspx |access-date=2023-02-08 |website=Database Trends and Applications |language=en-US}}</ref>
* Code Insights: Extracts data from a codebase to provide detailed analytics and visualizations to track the health and progress of a code project.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sawers |first=Paul |date=2022-03-10 |title=With Code Insights, Sourcegraph gives developers a better understanding of their codebase |url=https://venturebeat.com/dev/with-code-insights-sourcegraph-gives-developers-a-better-understanding-of-their-codebase/ |access-date=2022-10-03 |website=VentureBeat |language=en-US}}</ref>
Code search has received adoption by such various sectors as
As of July 2021,
▲In research, Sourcegraph has been used to develop [[data mining]] methods for [[Downstream (software development)|downstream]] [[Coupling (computer programming)|dependencies]]<ref>{{Citation |last1=Thiede |first1=Christoph |title=17th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering |year=2022 |contribution=Augmenting Library Development by Mining Usage Data from Downstream Dependencies |contribution-url=https://www.scitepress.org/PublicationsDetail.aspx?ID=cXF3UOIDuTY=&t=1 |publisher=ENASE |last2=Limberger |first2=Daniel |last3=Scheibel |first3=Willy |last4=Döllner |first4=Jürgen}}</ref> and to assist in refactoring and translating a program into its equivalent in another programming language.<ref>{{Cite thesis |type=MSc |last=Haavisto |first=Juuso |date=2020 |title=Leveraging APL and SPIR-V languages to write network functions to be deployed on Vulkan compatible GPUs |publisher=Université de Lorraine |url=https://hal.inria.fr/hal-03155647/document |access-date=2022-12-15}}</ref>
▲Sourcegraph is used in the [[CERN]] Accelerator Control software community to index, quickly search, and generate statistics on code.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Voirin |first1=R. |last2=Vanden Eynden |first2=M. |last3=Oulevey |first3=T. |date=2022 |title=The State of Containerization in CERN Accelerator Controls |url=https://cds.cern.ch/record/2809570 |journal=JACoW |volume=ICALEPCS |issue=2021 |pages=829–834 |doi=10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2021-THBL03 |access-date=2022-12-15}}</ref>
▲In [[Computer security|cybersecurity]], Sourcegraph has been used to gain better insight into source code during penetration testing.<ref>{{cite book |last=Rehberger |first=Johann |title=Cybersecurity Attacks – Red Team Strategies: A practical guide to building a penetration testing program having homefield advantage |publisher=Packt Publishing Ltd |year=2020 |isbn=9781838825508 |pages=216–224}}</ref>
▲As of July 2021, Sourcegraph customers include [[Adidas]], [[Lyft]], [[Uber]], [[Yelp]],<ref name="auto5" /> [[Plaid (company)|Plaid]], [[General Electric|GE]], [[Atlassian]],<ref name="tc">{{Cite web |last=Miller |first=Ron |date=2021-07-13 |title=Sourcegraph raises $125M Series D on $2.6B valuation for universal code search tool |url=https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/13/sourcegraph-raises-125m-series-d-on-2-6b-valuation-for-universal-code-search-tool/ |access-date=2022-10-03 |website=TechCrunch |language=en-US}}</ref> [[Amazon (company)|Amazon]], [[PayPal]], [[Qualtrics]], and [[Cloudflare]].<ref name="vb2" />
== See also ==
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* [[SaaS]]
* [[Code reviewing
* [[Intelligent code completion]]
* [[Generative AI]]
* [[Model Context Protocol]]
}}
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
[[Category:Database management systems]]
[[Category:Code search engines]]
[[Category:Applications of artificial intelligence]]
[[Category:Formerly open-source or free software]]
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