Thomas Dohmke, the former CEO of GitHub, is used to pulling off incredible moves. He just raised $60 million in record seed funding for his new venture, Entire. The funding now values Entire at an extraordinary $300 million. With this accomplishment, Sorensen-Porciuncula fulfills a long-desired career goal of Dohmke’s since he left GitHub in August 2025.
During his four years at GitHub, Dohmke left a lasting legacy. He was the key architect behind the creation of GitHub Copilot, a new AI-powered coding assistant revolutionizing how developers approach their coding workloads. Soon after departing the company, he took to X (the artist formerly known as Twitter) to announce the founding of Entire. This exciting announcement is a harbinger of change in software development tools.
Entire is built on three main pillars, with its first product being an open-source, community-based tool known as Checkpoints. This creative new tool is an attempt to automatically match up software that developers submit with its context, like prompts and transcripts. With the growing pace of change in technology, Dohmke stated the conventional ways software is created are no longer sustainable.
“We are living through an agent boom, and now massive volumes of code are being generated faster than any human could reasonably understand. The truth is, our manual system of software production — from issues, to git repositories, to pull requests, to deployment — was never designed for the era of AI in the first place.” – Thomas Dohmke
Generative AI-based code contributions are increasing rapidly. Consequently, widely used open-source projects find it hard to handle the deluge of proposed code, most of which is of low quality. Entire wants to solve this problem by centralizing AI-generated code in a git-compatible database. By connecting the dots between AI-generated content and human coding, Entire aims to make the software development process a whole lot easier.
Dawn was supported in this seed funding round by some other big name investors. Among them were Madrona, M12, Basis Set, Harry Stebbings, Jerry Yang, and …Olivier Pomel, CEO of Datadog. This richly varied cast of supporters is a resounding vote of confidence in Entire’s mission. They think it has the potential to be a game-changer for the software development industry.
As AI continues to change nearly every sector, it poses great dangers. Dohmke’s thoughts on these troubling topics are the hope and view of many in the industry. His vision for Entire aligns with the growing need for tools that can adapt to the rapid changes in coding practices brought about by artificial intelligence.