Continue Dev, Inc.
Continue provides an open-source AI coding assistant that enables developers to create, customize, and share contextual AI assistants. The platform integrates with development environments like VS Code and JetBrains, allowing users to connect to any AI model and pull in context from external data sources.
Founding Story
Founded in June 2023 by Ty Dunn and Nate Sesti, Continue emerged from the founders' collaborative work on side projects while exploring the intersection of AI and developer tools. The company participated in Y Combinator's Summer 2023 batch and received its initial funding at the end of YC S23 to build an open-source toolkit for working with LLMs and deliver Continue for teams.
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Leadership
Founders
Ty Dunn
Co-founder and CEO. Studied the intersection of language and computation at the University of Michigan. Previously worked as a software engineer building dialogue management systems. At Rasa, started as the first product manager and rose to Group Product Manager, leading an open source machine learning framework for conversational interfaces that achieved millions of downloads and 17,000 GitHub stars. Collaborated with OpenAI on large language models and user simulators before the invention of reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF).
Nate Sesti
Co-founder and CTO. Studied Math and Physics at MIT. Previously worked as Software Systems Intern at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (June-August 2022), Undergraduate Researcher at MIT (November 2020-July 2021), Software Engineer Intern at Mayan (November 2020-September 2021), and Intern at IGD Solutions Corporation (June-August 2019).
Executive Team
Ty Dunn
Co-founder and CEO
Previously Group Product Manager at Rasa, leading an open source ML framework for conversational interfaces. Collaborated with OpenAI on LLMs and user simulators. Studied language and computation at University of Michigan.
Nate Sesti
Co-founder and CTO
Math and Physics graduate from MIT. Former NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Software Systems Intern and MIT Undergraduate Researcher.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Subscription-based SaaS model with freemium tier. Solo tier is free with bring-your-own API keys or purchase credits. Team tier charges per seat monthly with included credits. Enterprise tier offers custom pricing with SSO, BYOK, and custom contracts. Revenue from paid Teams and Company tiers, plus credit purchases for frontier models.
Pricing Tiers
Create and run AI agents in Mission Control, terminal, and CI/CD; Trigger agents on demand, on schedules, or from integrations; Connect integrations like Slack, Sentry, and Snyk; Bring your own API keys or buy credits for frontier models
Everything in Solo; Manage and share private agents across your team; Control which agents your team can use; Securely share API keys where members use but cannot view them; Includes $10 monthly credits per seat
Everything in Solo & Team; SSO with SAML or OIDC; Bring your own API keys (BYOK); Custom contract and SLA
Target Markets
- Software developers
- Development teams
- Enterprise software development organizations
- Open-source community contributors
- DevOps teams
- Individual developers seeking AI coding assistance
- Automatically addressing Sentry alerts
- Fixing Snyk dependency vulnerabilities
- Managing Sanity CMS schema documentation
- Running Netlify performance audits
- Updating GitHub documentation files
- Updating PostHog telemetry dashboards
- Ionos
- Siemens
- Morningstar
History & Milestones
Launched Continue 1.0 with hub.continue.dev and standardized config.yaml packaging format
Raised $3M in new seed funding led by Heavybit, bringing total funding to $5.1M
Reached 23,000 GitHub stars and 11,000 Discord community members
Reached 14k+ GitHub stars, 5k+ Discord members, and 140+ contributors on 1st birthday
Company founded by Ty Dunn and Nate Sesti
