We raised $12M to build a text editor

We're excited to announce that we've raised $12M from Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from OpenAI co-founder John Schulman, Perplexity co-founder Denis Yarats, and Intercom founder Eoghan McCabe.

We will use this funding to develop a new product: a text editor. This editor will be designed together with our models to accelerate day-to-day tasks and help experienced developers navigate and edit large codebases.

Why a text editor?

We started Supermaven because we wanted to create a copilot that was faster, more intelligent, easier to use, and accessible to everyone. We've delivered on that goal by creating Supermaven editor extensions for VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, Neovim, and Zed, which are actively used by over 40,000 developers today.

Our goal of making our product accessible to everyone raises a natural question: why make a text editor? If possible, we would prefer to meet people where they are and provide the best product possible without making users learn new tools.

We're building an editor because with our most recent update that predicts jumps and deletions, we've reached the limit of what is possible within an editor extension. As we develop new models that support more features, the only way to take full advantage of those features is by having full control over the user interface. This requires us to build our own editor because extensions can't display their own UI elements inline with the code; they can only use the UI elements made available to them by the editor.

This is a unique time in the history of software development. With AI, new tools are possible that were unthinkable five years ago. These new tools require new interfaces, and having an editor allows us to build them.

We're a small team of 5 engineers. If this sounds exciting, join us!