Paradev Raises $11.5M Seed to Run AI Coding Agents in Parallel
Paradev (paradev.com), the developer tool previously called Superset, has raised an $11.5 million seed round led by Union Square Ventures. Pioneer Fund, Y Combinator, BoxGroup, 468 Capital, Liquid 2 Ventures, Orange Collective and others also participated. The company announced the round together with its new name.
Angels in the round include Paul Graham and YC's Nicolas Dessaigne.
Paradev is an IDE for engineers who run many AI coding agents at once. Developers keep using the agents they already have, such as Claude Code and Codex. Paradev gives each task its own isolated workspace, so engineers can run dozens or hundreds of jobs side by side and review the results in one place. The founders argue that agents can now handle real engineering work, which makes managing a whole team of them the harder problem. The new name follows that idea: lawyers work with paralegals and doctors with paramedics, so developers get paradevs.
"Founders Kiet, Satya and Avi are locked in, close to the customer, and pioneering what's next when it comes to building software in the agentic future," said USV's Nick Grossman.
All three founders were previously CTOs at YC companies. CEO Kiet Ho co-founded Onlook, CTO Satya Patel was CTO of Untether Labs, and CPO Avi Peltz was co-founder and CTO of Adam. They built the first version at a hackathon at YC's headquarters in November 2025 and won $2,000. A month later they released it as open source. Within a few months, tens of thousands of engineers were using it as their main editor, and that adoption led the team into YC's Spring 2026 batch.
Paradev's first hire is founding engineer Harshith Mullapudi, who previously founded CORE (YC S23) and worked as an engineer at Airbyte and HackerRank. At CORE, he built a system for running Claude Code and Codex remotely.
At Paradev, Mullapudi will build a platform for teams to run software factories, where agents write and ship code without a developer directing each step. The company's YC listing describes its long-term goal as building self-improving software.
The company says more than 145,000 developers in 180 countries now use the tool. It also says teams at Netflix, Microsoft, NVIDIA, DoorDash, ByteDance and Rakuten use Paradev. The open-source project has more than 15,000 GitHub stars and has twice been the top product on Product Hunt. Japan is its second-largest market.