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Conductor

Conductor lets software engineers run multiple AI coding agents in parallel against isolated copies of their codebase, then review and merge the results — replacing single-threaded AI-assisted editing with concurrent agentic development.

conductor.build · San Francisco

CALL NO.CS·CONDUCTOR·26
StageSeries AApril 2026 · led by Spark Capital[2][3]
Raised$23Mdisclosed rounds[1][2][3]
Headcount6as of Apr 2026[1]
Valuationnot publicly disclosedno source in ledger
Founded2024[1][3]
Money

Raised $23M across disclosed rounds.[1][2][3]

Series A closed April 2026, led by Spark Capital.[2][3]

post-money valuation is not publicly disclosed.

Named investors include Y Combinator, Spark Capital, Matrix Partners.[2][3]

People

Charlie Holtz, Co-founder & CEO[3]

Jackson de Campos, Co-founder[3]

Charlie Holtz, Founder CEO — previously engineer at Replicate (AI model hosting), quantitative researcher at Point72, forward-deployed engineer at ActionIQ; BS Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, Brown University[3]

Jackson de Campos, Co-founder — Brown University (met Holtz on the ultimate frisbee team)[3]

Guillaume Sabran, Engineering — joined via acquisition of cmd (AI integration for Xcode); formerly iOS Platform lead at Airbnb[3]

Signals
Apr 27 2026hiringHiring: Founding Product Engineer, Founding Product Designer, Founding Design Engineer[1]
Apr 8 2026newscmd (AI Xcode integration) acquired by Conductor; Guillaume Sabran (ex-Airbnb iOS Platform lead) joins team[3]
Apr 8 2026newsLinear ships direct integration with Conductor, allowing issues to open in-agent with full context[3]
Apr 2 2026fundingConductor raises $22M Series A led by Spark Capital and Matrix Partners[2][3]
Mar 31 2026news10x user growth since January 2026; adoption reported at Google, Meta, Stripe, Datadog, Hubspot, Amazon, and 100% code adoption among some YC startups[2]
Comps

Factory AI · factory.ai · Parallel AI agent task runner for software teams, cited alongside Conductor as a 'facilitating multiple agents' interface distinct from classic IDEs

Cursor · cursor.com · AI-native code editor (Anysphere) with deep IDE integration; single-agent model that Conductor explicitly contrasts against with its parallel/orchestrator framing

Replit · replit.com · Cloud-based collaborative IDE with AI coding features; one source of talent for the Conductor team

GitHub Copilot · github.com · Microsoft's AI coding assistant embedded in VS Code and GitHub; single-agent autocomplete and chat model that Conductor positions against

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May 2026 · ycombinator.com

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Conductor

CALL NO.CS·CONDUCTOR·26

Conductor lets software engineers run multiple AI coding agents in parallel against isolated copies of their codebase, then review and merge the results — replacing single-threaded AI-assisted editing with concurrent agentic development.

conductor.build · San Francisco

StageSeries A
Raised$23M
Headcount6
Valuationnot publicly disclosed
Founded2024
CompsFactory AI +3