Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke‘s startup Entire is rolling out a distributed network for mirroring code repositories, making the case that centralized platforms like he once ran as part of Microsoft will struggle to handle the demands of AI coding agents on their own.
Entire, which emerged in February with a $60 million seed round, is launching a preview of its distributed Git network on Wednesday, with active regions in the U.S., Europe, and Australia. Developers can mirror an existing GitHub repository onto Entire in one step, keeping their code where it is while AI agents clone and pull from a faster, closer copy.
Dohmke cited a principle espoused by Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux and the Git version control system, in a 2007 talk: “If you’re not distributed, you’re not worth using.”
“In the era of agents, centralized Git hosting has become a fundamental constraint, as the strain of billions of agents and developers hammering a central server shows up in the form of rate limits, high latency, or even outages,” Dohmke said in a statement announcing the launch.
GitHub, which Microsoft acquired for $7.5 billion in 2018, is the dominant platform for storing and collaborating on software code. It’s built on top of Git, the open-source system that tracks changes across a codebase, which was designed from the start to work without a central server.
Dohmke, based in Bellevue, Wash., left GitHub last year after nearly four years as CEO. He co-founded Entire with Cole Driver, a former GitHub deputy chief of staff. The fully remote company has grown to more than 40 employees across nine countries.
Entire’s $60 million seed round was led by Felicis, with participation from Madrona, Microsoft’s venture arm M12, and Basis Set Ventures, along with individual investors including Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang and Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan. Felicis called it the largest seed investment ever for a developer tools startup, valuing the company at $300 million.
“We think it can be the next great developer platform,” said Tim Porter, a Madrona managing director, in an interview this week.
He cited the company’s complementary position to the major coding agents — working in conjunction with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and others rather than competing with them — as a key factor driving its prospects for success.
Entire isn’t positioning itself as a direct competitor to GitHub, and the participation of M12 is a sign of the cooperative dynamic between the two. For now, the mirroring approach is designed to complement GitHub, not replace it.
Long-term, the company’s ambitions are much bigger. The announcement Wednesday morning about the preview of Entire’s distributed Git network says the company plans to ultimately let developers host new repositories natively, not just mirror existing ones.
Madrona, in a blog post earlier this year, described GitHub, while “incredibly important,” as “quickly becoming a legacy platform” and said Entire’s goal is “not only to supersede GitHub, but to superset it.”
The Seattle-based firm’s investment was led by Porter with the late S. “Soma” Somasegar, who was previously corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Developer Division and led the acquisition of Dohmke’s earlier startup, HockeyApp, announced in 2014.
Entire hasn’t disclosed pricing. Porter said the company plans to introduce commercial and individual tiers after the preview period, with a mix of seat-based and consumption-based pricing alongside a free tier and open-source components.
The new distributed Git network is one part of a broader platform. Entire also offers a tool that automatically records the reasoning and context behind AI-generated code changes — the instructions a developer gave, the steps the agent took, and why it made the choices it did — and stores them alongside the code itself in the repository.
The company says it now integrates with every major coding agent, including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Factory AI, and GitHub Copilot.
Entire is also announcing other new features on Wednesday:
- Entire Blame, which traces a line of code back to the agent conversation that produced it.
- Entire Review, which runs automated code reviews using that context.
- Code and Semantic Search, which queries the history of code changes and the reasoning behind them.
“Session logs are now the second most important artifact in software development,” Dohmke said in his statement, “and they belong in the repository alongside the code.”
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