Vancouver’s Unblocked, a software startup tackling one of the most persistent challenges in modern development — understanding code — has announced a $27.5 million Series A funding round.
Techcouver named Unblocked one of ten B.C. startups to watch in 2024.
The round provides fresh capital for the company to accelerate its vision of contextual code intelligence: helping developers access the intent and history behind code, not just the code itself. Unblocked’s platform is already in use by thousands of developers at startups and large enterprises, becoming a go-to tool for onboarding and debugging.
“Raising a Series A isn’t the goal of a company; it’s fuel for the journey,” wrote CEO Dennis Pilarinos in a blog post announcing the milestone. The funding will allow Unblocked to deepen its core product capabilities, build tighter integrations with developer tools, and grow its team and community.
Unblocked’s product addresses a growing pain point in software engineering: the lack of accessible context behind code decisions. According to Pilarinos, 63% of developers report spending 30 to 120+ minutes each day searching for answers about their codebase, often sifting through outdated documentation or Slack threads. Unblocked aims to solve that by connecting scattered knowledge and surfacing it where developers work.
The platform is gaining traction at a critical moment. As AI-generated code proliferates and codebases grow increasingly complex, the disconnect between code authorship and code understanding is widening. Pilarinos argues that tools like Unblocked are becoming essential, likening contextual intelligence to version control or automated testing in importance.
With new funding in hand, Unblocked plans to expand into runtime environments such as AWS, GCP, and Datadog, and improve its “Autonomous CI Triage” feature. The company also intends to invest in open-source components and partnerships with other toolmakers to ensure its insights are available wherever developers read and write code.
“We’re building toward a world where developers can quickly understand any codebase — even if they didn’t write it,” said Pilarinos.
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