Kodezi Inc.

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Kodezi Inc.
Kodezi
FormerlyTeachMeCode
Company type Private
Industry
FoundedMarch 2019;5 years ago (2019-03) in San Francisco, United States
Founders
  • Ishraq Khan
  • Mike Walsh
Headquarters
San Francisco
,
United States
Area served
Worldwide
Website kodezi.com

Kodezi Inc., commonly known as Kodezi, is a U.S.-based generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) software company founded in 2019 by the machine learning researcher Ishraq Khan [1] and Boston College Carroll School of Management alumni Mike Walsh, that reviews and auto-corrects computer programming code in real-time having been modelled after Grammarly, the cloud-based [2] typing assistant also headquartered in San Francisco. [3] [4]

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History

Early history

Kodezi (then known as TeachMeCode) was founded in March 2019 by the machine learning researcher Ishraq Khan and Mike Walsh, an alumnus of Boston College Carroll School of Management, [5] as a educational technology platform in San Francisco, U.S. and has its headquarters still in the same location. [6]

The original prototype of the software focused on the peer to peer learning method by which one student taught another, [7] a concept initially introduced by British educators Andrew Bell and Joseph Lancaster in the late 18th century. [8] [9]

Modern history

In 2020, TeachMeCode rebranded and changed its name to Kodezi. [7]

On November 30, 2021, Kodezi Inc. (trading as Kodezi) was incorporated in Delaware, United States, listing its founders Ishraq Khan and Mike Walsh on the board of directors. [10]

The software development company based its GenAI software on the same model as Grammarly, [11] [12] a digital writing tool that, among other things, provides grammar and spell checking tools for its users. [13]

In May 2022, the company raised 800,000 US dollars [14] in its pre-seed round from Watertower Ventures and RTP Global. [15] [16]

In February 2023, Product Hunt, an American product discovery site owned by AngelList, [17] [18] listed Kodezi as product of the month on its front page. [19]

Controversies

In early 2018, Tavis Ormandy, a security researcher at Google who was formerly part of Google's Project Zero team, [20] uncovered a vulnerability in Grammarly's browser extension, which exposed authentication tokens to websites [21] and potentially allowing them to access the users' documents and other data, raising concerns about whether the same could be true for Kodezi's own software versions. [22] Within a few hours, the companies released a hotfix and reported that it found no evidence of compromised user data. [23]

On April 7, 2023, an article in the Harvard Business Review (HBR) [24] [25] argued about the uncertainty and challenges ahead for companies such as Kodezi that use and rely generative AI, citing that there were risks regarding infringement. [26]

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