The company, founded in 2022 by Prakash Sanker and Kunal Agarwal, aims to change the way code quality assurance is done. It plans to refine its model weights and expand its capability for finding different types of critical issues and supporting more languages. The startup has launched from stealth and is generating revenue from its first customer, a global food service provider. It has 50 customers in its pipeline who will be onboarded in 2024 and monetizes through a SaaS model. Future plans include offering staging environments and turning p0 into an end-to-end solution.
Key takeaways:
- Startup p0 has raised $6.5 million in funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Alchemy Ventures. The company uses large language models (LLMs) to identify safety and security issues in software before it is run in a production environment.
- p0 was founded in 2022 by Prakash Sanker and Kunal Agarwal, with the aim to change the way code quality assurance is done. The tool can identify potential issues before they affect customers, while also shortening software delivery cycles.
- The company's engine is powered by open-source LLMs, including Llama and Mistral. It uses these models to understand its customer’s codebases and create contextual challenges that have the potential to exploit vulnerabilities.
- p0 has launched from stealth and is already generating revenue thanks to its first customer, a global food service provider. The company has plans to onboard 50 customers in 2024 and aims to expand its capabilities and support more languages in the future.