This investment fuels the launch of Cline Teams, its new enterprise platform designed to bring Cline's renowned agentic AI coding capabilities to large-scale enterprises. The funding will also be used to grow the Cline team and further expand its product offerings. This includes expanding Cline beyond VS Code to wherever developers write code.
Cline has transformed software development through the world's most trusted open-source AI coding agent, installed by 2.7 million developers and used by Fortune 500 companies like Samsung, SAP and many others that require strict privacy and control. With Cline, developers get exactly what they pay for: $100 spent on frontier models delivers $100 worth of the best AI intelligence, with no hidden markups or throttling. This transparent approach has resonated with developers who want full-powered AI-driven development without the black box pricing and performance compromises found in subscription-based alternatives.
"Our thesis is simple: inference cannot be the business strategy," said Saoud Rizwan, Founder of Cline. "What started as an open-source project for hobbyists to push AI models to their full potential quickly became a tool used by millions of developers and organically adopted by enterprises to get serious engineering work done. And today we are announcing an enterprise product that enables enterprises to do what they've ...
