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Graphite

AI-powered code review platform for high-velocity engineering teams, acquired by Cursor in December 2025.

graphite.com · New York

CALL NO.CS·GRAPHITE·26
StageSeries BMarch 2025 · led by Accel[2][4][5][6]
Raised$81Mdisclosed rounds[4][6]
Headcount55as of Apr 2026[1]
Valuationnot publicly disclosedno source in ledger
Founded2020[4][6]
Money

Raised $81M across disclosed rounds.[4][6]

Series B closed March 2025, led by Accel.[2][4][5][6]

post-money valuation is not publicly disclosed.

Named investors include Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Menlo Ventures, Shopify Ventures, Figma Ventures, The General Partnership, Homebrew, Neo, BoxGroup.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

People

Merrill Lutsky, Co-founder & CEO[4][8][9][10][1]

Tomas Reimers, Co-founder & CPO[4][8][9][10][1]

Greg Foster, Co-founder & CTO[4][8][9][10][1]

Carissa Jansen, Head of Sales & Operations[1][8][9][10]

Diane Liu, Director of Engineering[1][8][9][10]

Signals
Dec 19 2025fundingAcquired by Cursor for 'way over' $290M Series B valuation[7]
Oct 8 2025launchDiamond AI reviewer renamed to Graphite Agent (October 2025) company claim, not independently confirmed[2]
Mar 18 2025newsRevenue grew 20x in 2024; 500+ companies served including Shopify, Snowflake, Figma, Perplexity[4]
May 2 2022funding$20M Series A led by a16z; Peter Levine (first GitHub investor) joins board company claim, not independently confirmed[3]
Comps

LinearB · linearb.io · Same buyer (VP Eng / CTO at high-velocity software teams) and overlapping product surface: merge queue management, PR workflow automation, and engineering productivity analytics — all core to Graphite's platform.[4][5]

Reviewpad · reviewpad.com · Same workflow (automating GitHub pull request review and merge policies) and same buyer segment (engineering teams at software companies) as Graphite's core code review and merge queue product.[1][4]

Phabricator / Phacility · phacility.com · Graphite explicitly positioned itself as the modern successor to Phabricator's stacked-diff model for teams that had moved to GitHub; Phabricator is listed in Graphite's own tech stack history and is the direct conceptual predecessor to Graphite's core...[1][7]

GitHub · github.com · Direct workflow overlap: Graphite integrates with GitHub but competes for the code review layer on top of it; named as a competitor in Graphite's own enrichment data and the primary incumbent Graphite was displacing.[1]

Risk

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Graphite

CALL NO.CS·GRAPHITE·26

AI-powered code review platform for high-velocity engineering teams, acquired by Cursor in December 2025.

graphite.com · New York

StageSeries B
Raised$81M
Headcount55
Valuationnot publicly disclosed
Founded2020
CompsLinearB +3

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