Since Kilo’s launch in early 2025, it has amassed over 750,000 downloads and risen to #1 on OpenRouter. Funding will support Kilo’s ambition to become the most complete coding agent.

Kilo Code, the fastest growing open source coding agent, today announced it has raised $8 million in seed funding. The funding round was led by Cota Capital with participation from Breakers, General Catalyst, Quiet Capital, and Tokyo Black.

With AI coding, engineers should be moving faster than ever, but tools like Cursor are introducing AI drag — artificial friction that slows down development. Downgraded models, rate limiting, confusing pricing, and model lock-in create a new breed of frustrations for engineers.

Kilo’s mission is to bring Kilo Speed to agentic engineering. Engineers ship faster when their tools work with them, not against them. For developers, this means using Kilo where they want: VS Code, Jetbrains, in the CLI, and in the cloud. Engineering teams have a single platform to manage agentic coding, low code app building, and deployment. And technical leaders see ROI payback in their first two weeks of Kilo deployment.

“At Cota Capital, we back companies building the infrastructure that will define the next era of software, and we see Kilo doing this,” said Aditya Singh, General Partner at Cota Capital. “Kilo’s vision to build an all-in-one, agentic experience for software developers is what the space needs. Engineering leaders seek simple pricing, high-quality code, and model access to stay ahead of the rapid changes in AI.”

Kilo is shipping new features at Kilo Speed. In the last month, Kilo has launched parallel agents, one-click deploy, AI code review, cloud agents, and managed indexing. With over 500 models, and more added weekly, developers have the freedom to use the best model for a task. Kilo works closely with leading providers like Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, and Mistral as well as emerging labs to ensure models run best on Kilo. Access to stealth and frontier models and an aggressive product roadmap have resulted in rapid adoption of Kilo since its launch earlier this year:

• #1 position on OpenRouter
• 750,000 downloads
• 6.1 trillion tokens processed monthly

Kilo was co-founded by Scott Breitenother, founder of Brooklyn Data, and Sid Sijbrandij, GitLab co-founder and Executive Chair. “Everything we do at Kilo is in pursuit of Kilo Speed,” said Scott Breitenother, Co-Founder and CEO of Kilo Code. “We believe this is the new standard for how engineering teams develop and deploy software, and our mission is to help all engineering teams operate at this pace.”

About Kilo

Kilo is the all-in-one, agentic platform for software developers. Kilo’s mission is to bring Kilo Speed to agentic engineering. Engineers ship faster when their tools work with them, not against them. For more information, visit kilo.ai.

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