Warp Labs, Inc.
To empower developers to ship better software more quickly, freeing them to focus on their work's creative and rewarding aspects. Warp has evolved from a modern terminal to an agentic development environment - a workbench for dispatching agents to code, deploy, and debug production software.
Founding Story
Warp was founded during the peak of COVID-19 pandemic in June 2020. Zach Lloyd noticed the terminal had stayed the same for almost 40 years and modern terminals still emulate physical ones, implementing a subset of functionality from VT100. The initial prototype was an Electron app, but the team pivoted and rewrote the application in Rust with support from Nathan Sobo (Atom editor creator) to create an OS-native, blazingly fast application utilizing GPU rendering. Early team members included Shikhiu Ing (founding designer), Michelle Lim, and Aloke Desai.
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Leadership
Founders
Zach Lloyd
Former Principal Engineer at Google where he ran engineering for Google Sheets and the Google Docs Suite. Former interim CTO at TIME and co-founder of venture-backed startup SelfMade.
Executive Team
Zach Lloyd
Founder & CEO
Former Principal Engineer at Google (Google Sheets and Docs Suite), interim CTO at TIME, co-founder of SelfMade
Shikhiu Ing
Founding Designer
Former designer at Adobe and Google, led team of 30+ designers for Google Docs suite
Business Model
Revenue Model
Hybrid subscription model with usage-based AI billing. Base subscriptions include AI credits, with overage billing for usage beyond included credits. Revenue automatically scales with developer AI usage without manual plan upgrades.
Pricing Tiers
For developers getting started with AI. Includes 150 AI credits/month for 2 months, then 75/month after. 3 indexed codebases, 3,000 files per codebase, 10 workflows, 3 notebooks, up to 5 shared sessions. Limited access to frontier models.
For developers wanting flexible AI access. 1,500 AI credits/month, Ambient Agents (beta), first-party integrations, BYOK support, 40 indexed codebases, 100,000 files per codebase, 2 vCPUs/4GB RAM per Ambient Agent, unlimited Warp Drive objects and shared sessions, private email support.
For teams scaling AI-powered development (up to 50 seats). Everything in Build plus team-wide Zero Data Retention, SAML-based SSO, 4 vCPUs/8GB RAM per Ambient Agent.
For organizations needing advanced control, security, and scale. Everything in Business plus custom compute environments, dedicated account manager, white-glove onboarding, bring your own LLM, custom AI credits and codebase indexing limits.
Target Markets
- Software developers and engineers
- DevOps engineers
- Infrastructure teams
- Enterprise development teams
- Startups and technology companies
- Individual developers and tech leads
- Building features with AI agents
- Fixing bugs and debugging production issues
- DevOps and deployment workflows
- Understanding and navigating codebases
- Terminal-based collaboration and knowledge sharing
- Executing complex multi-step development workflows
- OpenAI
- Atlassian
- Cisco
- Netflix
History & Milestones
Officially launched on Windows with PowerShell, WSL, Git Bash, and x64/ARM64 support
Launched Warp 2.0, the first Agentic Development Environment (ADE)
Launched Warp Code with dedicated code review experience and agent profiles
Launched Agents 3.0 with Full Terminal Use and integrations with Slack, Linear, and GitHub Actions
Featured in TIME Best Inventions of 2025 and received Newsweek AI Impact Award
2 AI Tools by Warp Labs, Inc.
Warp Code
5moAgentic coding inside Warp's terminal: code editor, diff-first review, codebase indexing, and multi-agent control with top LLMs (GPT-5, Claude, Gemini).
Intelligent terminal application that combines AI and developer team knowledge with Agent Mode for seamless code generation and troubleshooting.
