Baz extends seed to $17M, moves code review to the planning stage
What's the deal? Baz Technologies, an agentic coding startup, has raised $9 million in a seed extension, bringing its total funding to $17 million.
The round was co-led by existing investors Battery Ventures and Boldstart Ventures, with new backers AFG Partners and Disruptive VC joining.
Alongside the funding, Baz launched Baz Planner, a tool that catches software vulnerabilities during the planning stage — before code is even written.
Why now? The startup debuted Baz Planner at the AI Engineer World's Fair in San Francisco, building on its AI Code Review tool that launched last year.
Chief executive officer Guy Eisenkot said customers had pushed the company to intervene earlier. "That's where bugs and vulnerabilities are cheapest to eliminate," he said.
The tool routes every new idea through loops that detect the root cause of vulnerabilities, then rewrites the coding plan to remove them.
What could go wrong? Cyber-capable AI models that scan code for flaws are not new, so Baz must prove its planning-stage approach genuinely outperforms rivals.
Baz Planner uses four specialised agents to evaluate each suggestion against a strict risk matrix, blocking unsafe paths before code ships to production.
The company says early adopters cut downstream rework — reverts and hotfixes after a merge — by more than 65%.
The signal: The seed extension was co-led by Boldstart Ventures, an investment fund known for backing developer-focused enterprise startups at their earliest stages, alongside Battery Ventures — a vote of confidence as Baz pushes its security discipline from code review back into the planning stage. With teams increasingly shipping AI-generated code at scale, investors are betting that governing that output, rather than simply producing it, is where the next layer of value sits.
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