Sourcegraph
To bring code search to every company and developer, making it so everyone can code by helping developers understand, write, and fix code faster across large, complex codebases.
Founding Story
Quinn Slack and Beyang Liu met while working at Palantir. They realized that universal access to code search was not a standard in the industry despite its transformative power at companies like Google. They decided to start Sourcegraph on April 1, 2013 to bring those tools to every company and developer. Their mission was to tame and eventually automate the tedious parts of working in big, messy codebases.
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Leadership
Founders
Quinn Slack
Co-founder and CEO. Taught himself to code at age nine. Previously co-founded Blend Labs (an enterprise technology company for U.S. banks) and worked as an engineer at Palantir. Holds a BS in Computer Science from Stanford.
Beyang Liu
Co-founder and CTO. Started his career as an engineer at Google, where he used Google's internal Code Search product. Also worked at Palantir where he met Quinn Slack.
Executive Team
Dan Adler
Chief Executive Officer
Former VP of Operations. CS major and programmer who wrote Sourcegraph's original data infrastructure. Former CFO with hundreds of commits to the production codebase.
Beyang Liu
CTO and Co-founder (Board Member)
Started career as engineer at Google using Google's internal Code Search. Worked at Palantir before co-founding Sourcegraph.
Business Model
Revenue Model
SaaS subscription-based business model with tiered pricing based on user count and features. Revenue from API usage, subscriptions, and enterprise licenses. Also generates $5M to $10M in annualized revenue from ads in the free tier.
Pricing Tiers
Code search with enterprise-level security, scalability, and flexibility. Includes Deep Search (3 searches per seat after Oct 15, 2025), Code Search, Symbol Search, Batch Changes, Code Insights, Code Navigation, Code Monitoring. Single-tenant cloud deployment. 24x5 support with options for CSM and Premium Support.
Limited version of Cody with rate limits. As of June 2024, not accepting new signups.
Full Cody features. As of June 2024, not accepting new signups.
Enterprise-grade Cody with access to latest AI models (Claude Opus 4.5, Gemini 3 Pro, GPT-5.1), multi-repository context, self-hosted options, and enterprise security features.
For teams up to 50 developers. Supports up to 100 GitHub private and public repositories. As of June 2024, new workspaces do not include Cody.
Business plan features as noted in research sources.
Target Markets
- Enterprise software development teams
- Large technology companies
- Financial services and banks
- E-commerce platforms
- AI research labs
- Organizations with large, complex codebases
- Understanding and navigating large, complex codebases
- Finding and fixing code across multiple repositories
- Large-scale code refactoring and migrations
- Security vulnerability fixes and GDPR compliance
- Deprecating legacy code
- API migrations and library replacements
- Uber
- Amazon
- Lyft
History & Milestones
Launched Deep Search in Research Preview
Spun out Amp as an independent company; Dan Adler became CEO of Sourcegraph while co-founders Quinn Slack and Beyang Liu joined the board
Added Claude Opus 4.5, Gemini 3 Pro, and GPT-5.1 to Cody Enterprise
Launched Cody AI coding assistant and rebranded core product to Code Search; over 1.8 million engineers using Sourcegraph
Cody 1.0 launched into general availability
2 AI Tools by Sourcegraph
Amp
6moAgentic coding tool built by Sourcegraph that provides autonomous reasoning, comprehensive code editing, and complex task execution in VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and CLI.
AI coding assistant that uses advanced search and codebase context to help developers write, understand, and fix code faster with intelligent suggestions.
