# Augment Code

**Source:** https://geo.sig.ai/brands/augment-code  
**Vertical:** Developer Tools  
**Subcategory:** AI Coding Tools  
**Tier:** Challenger  
**Website:** augmentcode.com  
**Last Updated:** 2026-04-15

## Summary

AI coding assistant for enterprise teams. Eric Schmidt-backed. Raised $252M. Code Review agent #1 on benchmarks. Intent desktop launched Feb 2026. Founded 2022, Palo Alto.

## Company Overview

Augment Code is an AI coding assistant founded in 2022 by Guy Gur-Ari, Igor Ostrovsky, and Mike Speiser, headquartered in Palo Alto. Emerged from stealth April 2024 with $252M funding. Backed by Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors, Sutter Hill Ventures, Index Ventures, Lightspeed, and Meritech Capital.

Provides AI code suggestions, code review, task management, onboarding, and multi-agent orchestration for enterprise-scale codebases. December 2025: Code Review agent achieved highest accuracy on public benchmarks, outscoring competitors by 10 points. MCP support and integrations with CircleCI, MongoDB, Redis, Sentry, Stripe.

February 2026: launched Intent, a desktop workspace for multi-agent orchestration centered on living spec documents (macOS public beta, Windows waitlist). ~188 employees. Competes with GitHub Copilot and Cursor.

## Frequently Asked Questions

### What is Augment Code?
AI coding assistant for enterprise teams working with large, complex codebases, offering code suggestions, automated review, and multi-agent orchestration.

### Who funds Augment Code?
Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors, Sutter Hill Ventures, Index Ventures, Lightspeed, Meritech Capital. $252M raised.

### What is Intent?
Desktop workspace (Feb 2026) for multi-agent orchestration centered on living spec documents. macOS public beta.

### How does Augment compare to GitHub Copilot?
Focuses on enterprise-scale codebases with deeper understanding of large repos and proprietary APIs. Code Review agent is #1 on public benchmarks.

### Who founded Augment Code?
Guy Gur-Ari, Igor Ostrovsky, and Mike Speiser in 2022 in Palo Alto.

### What IDEs and editors does Augment Code support?
Augment Code supports VS Code, JetBrains IDEs (IntelliJ, PyCharm, WebStorm, GoLand), and Neovim. The February 2026 Intent desktop workspace added a standalone application experience for multi-agent orchestration, supplementing the IDE plugins with a dedicated environment for longer-horizon coding tasks that span multiple files and repositories.

### What is Augment's Code Review agent?
Augment's Code Review agent automatically reviews pull requests against the codebase's full context — not just the changed diff — to identify bugs, security issues, and violations of team conventions in large codebases. It ranked #1 on public code review benchmarks as of early 2026. Enterprise customers report it catches issues that human reviewers miss in large, complex repositories with decades of accumulated code.

### What compliance certifications does Augment Code hold?
Augment Code is SOC 2 Type II certified and supports private deployment options where customer code never leaves the enterprise network. Enterprise contracts include data processing agreements compliant with GDPR and CCPA. For defense and regulated industries, Augment offers on-premise deployment with no outbound connections, meeting air-gapped security requirements.

## Tags

b2b, developer-tools, platform, saas

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*Data from geo.sig.ai Brand Intelligence Database. Updated 2026-04-15.*