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Ex-GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke Unveils Entire, a $60M Startup Tackling AI Code Governance

• By John K. Waters
• February 12, 2026

Thomas Dohmke, the former CEO of GitHub, has officially launched a new venture named Entire, securing an eye-catching $60 million seed investment that values the company at roughly $300 million — one of the largest early-stage financings in the developer tools space. The funding round was led by Felicis and supported by Madrona, Microsoft’s M12, Basis Set and several well-known Angel investors.

Entire’s mission is to help engineering teams manage and govern software produced by AI agents by capturing not just code but the prompts, decisions and execution traces that went into its creation. It intends on making agent-generated software auditable, governable and reproducible, treating artifacts of agent work as data instead of simply generated chat outputs. The startup’s first offering, an open-source command-line tool called Checkpoints, embeds this extra context alongside source commits so organisations can audit, review and reproduce AI-generated work more reliably.

Dohmke described the scale problem in a press release announcing the company. "We are living through an agent boom, and now massive volumes of code are being generated faster than any human could reasonably understand," he said. "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."

Entire says the core of its platform is a git-compatible database that records not only source code but also prompts, constraints, decisions, and execution traces alongside each commit.

Its first release is Checkpoints, an open-source command-line tool that captures context from coding agents. Entire said in its product announcement that the data is "stored directly in Git and visualized through a dedicated UI," and that Checkpoints is launching with support for Anthropic's Claude Code and Google's Gemini CLI. The company said it plans to extend support to other agents "in the coming months," ahead of a broader platform launch later this year.

In an interview with The New Stack, Dohmke argued that mainstream developer tooling was built for human-to-human workflows. "We're moving away from engineering as a craft, where you build code manually and in files and folders," he said, adding that the industry is moving toward "specifications, reasoning, session logs, intent, outcomes," which he said requires "a very different developer platform than what GitHub is today."

Dohmke also said that the bottleneck in agentic coding is shifting from authoring to review. "If you keep that going through the software life cycle, the next thing you do after writing code is reviewing code," he said. "But a pull request has the same problem. It shows me changes to files that I never wrote in the first place."

Felicis has described the financing as the largest seed investment for a developer tools startup. Felicis founder and managing partner Aydin Senkut said in investor remarks included in the funding announcement that bolting agents onto human-centric workflows is creating "friction, complexity, and real bottlenecks" and that Entire is rethinking the developer platform for an agent-first world.

GeekWire, citing a statement from Dohmke, reported that he compared the shift to manufacturing's move from craft production to mass production. "Just like when automotive companies replaced the traditional, craft-based production system with the moving assembly line, we must now reimagine the software development lifecycle for a world where machines are the primary producers of code," he said in that statement.

In the same New Stack interview, Dohmke said returning to building a startup was his motivation for leaving GitHub, and he described a conversation with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. "After over ten years at Microsoft, seven of those at GitHub and four as CEO, I felt like the itch to be a founder again and build something new," Dohmke said, adding that Nadella's response was: "Hey, you know, one, please keep pushing until your last day. And two, let's see what we can do together in the Microsoft ecosystem."

Entire is remote-first with 15 employees and plans to grow to more than 30 engineers in the coming months. Dohmke said that leaders are beginning to view AI consumption as an operating cost. "I think in 2026, any leader needs to think about head count no longer just as salaries and benefits and travel and expenses, but tokens," he said.