Supermaven has raised $12M to take its coding assistant to the next level

Supermaven, a startup founded by Tabnine creator Jacob Jackson, recently announced it raised $12 million Bessemer Venture Partners and all-star founders John Schulman (OpenAI), Denis Yarats (Perplexity), and Intercom founder Eoghan McCabe. Supermaven is the latest company working on a coding copilot to complete a funding round, signaling investors' interest in leveraging AI to accelerate coding workflows is still strong.

Interest is not limited to investors, though. Supermaven reports that its editor extensions for VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, Neovim, and Zed, are currently in use by more than 40,000 developers. Some of the Supermaven extension's most notable features include a chat functionality that allows users to chat with OpenAI's and Anthropic models without leaving their editor, inline completions, and since the extensions' latest update, added support for deletions and jumps to different locations in the codebase, the latter powered by Babble, the company's specialist proprietary model, which features a million token context window.

Supermaven has ambitious plans for the future. In announcing that it had raised funding, the company stated that it has reached the limit of what it can do with an editor extension, especially seeing that extensions cannot display proprietary UI elements, but rather have to work with what the editor offers them in the first place. To address this shortcoming and ensure that Supermaven's coding copilot keeps evolving as more advanced features are integrated, the company has announced it will leverage the raised funds to continue developing a text editor, which Supermaven sees as the only way to have full UI control. Supermaven is also looking to grow its team, which comprises five people.