Sequoia Backs Zed's Vision for Collaborative Coding

Summary

Today we're announcing our $32M Series B led by Sequoia Capital with participation from our existing investors, bringing our total funding to over $42M. For the past four years, we've been building the world's fastest IDE, but that's just the foundation for what comes next. Our ultimate vision is a new way to collaborate on software, where conversations about code remain connected to the code itself, instead of being tied to aging snapshots or scattered across different tools. The first step was creating a high-quality editor to serve as the user interface. Now this new investment lets us expand to tackle the next phase of our plan. We're developing a new kind of operation-based version control that incrementally tracks the evolution of your code with edit-level granularity, and we're integrating it into Zed to make collaboration, both with agents and teammates, a first-class part of the coding experience. Sequoia is excited about our vision, and we're thrilled to have their help making it a reality. We're actively hiring, so if the future we're building excites you, we'd love to talk. Real-world software is the product of a never-ending stream of conversations: With yourself, your teammates, and now also with generative AI models. Talking about code helps us understand it, both individually and as a team. But with current tooling, these discussions (and all the insights they generate) seem to exist everywhere except the code itself. Git lets you collaborate by sharing commits and branches, but between commits you work alone in your own isolated working copy. It's fairly easy to discuss code that's changing in a pull request, but if you want to have a conversation about an arbitrary part of your codebase, you're stuck pasting text into a chat app linking to a particular version of the relevant code in a snapshot. As snapshots become stale and messages scroll into the past, your conversations quickly lose their link to the latest version of the code, and all of their...