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{{Short description|Code intelligence platform}}{{
{{Notability|Companies|date=January 2023}}{{Update|reason=The logo changed and Code Search is no longer open source|date=June 2025}}
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{{Infobox company
| name = Sourcegraph
| logo = Sourcegraph-logo-light.svg
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| website = {{URL|https://about.sourcegraph.com}}
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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>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
| 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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== See also ==
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* [[SaaS]] * [[Code reviewing software]]
* [[Intelligent code completion]]
* [[Generative AI]]
* [[Model Context Protocol]]
}}
== References ==
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