- Romanian startup Genezio raised a $2 million pre-seed round led by Gapminder Ventures, with the participation of Underline Ventures and a group of business angels.
- Genezio will use the funds to implement the go-to-market strategy and develop enterprise features, as current use cases include web, mobile, blockchain, AI, and automation apps.
- The idea behind Genezio is building a platform that offers a simpler approach to coding and deployment, making it easier for LLMs to generate the code for both the front-end and the back-end.
Founded in 2023, Romanian startup Genezio reunites part of the former leadership team at VectorWatch and Fitbit: serial entrepreneur Andrei Pitis as CEO, former UiPath-er Bogdan Ripa as CPO, and Bogdan Vlad as CTO, joined by Paula Cionca as CMO.
The team got together united by the belief that tools like Copilot and ChatGPT will help programmers write code, and their expectations for the cloud platforms will be changing forever.
Creating apps in hours, not days
Over the last three months the platform has been used by thousands of developers in beta. Many of them reported reduced time to market for their apps, sometimes by an order of magnitude, and additionally pointed out that it takes only 5 minutes from the start to the first relevant line of code and 2 minutes to deploy their app to production. With LLMs, coding time included, this means that users can create and launch a simple app in hours, not days.
“Designed from the ground up to be future-proof, Genezio will save precious time for the millions of AI-enabled developers of the future. The robust deployment platform and type-safe calling mechanism maximize developer productivity and reduce the number of bugs. The developers of the future use LLMs to generate code, while Genezio takes care of the rest – deployment, automated testing, and hosting at scale,” says Andrei Pitis, CEO and co-founder of Genezio.
Growth strategy targets English-speaking markets
They expect to grow the user base by increasing marketing investments to reach more programmers in their target markets, which are the English-speaking countries. The team is also investing in training solution providers and partners to help increase enterprise sales.
“Genezio is operating on a paradigm shift – their products and services are transformative for the developer tools environment. Its vision and state-of-the-art technology help developers and enterprises to drastically speed up the implementation of new and fully automated ways to test and deliver their own code,” said Cosmin Ochisor, partner at Gapminder Ventures.
