Raised $17M to Build What Comes After Git

GitButler raised a $17M Series A. The round was led by a16z, with continued participation from existing seed investors Fly Ventures and A Capital.

The core message is clear. GitButler says it isn't just building a better way to use Git, but infrastructure that redesigns how software itself is built.

Scott Chacon, a GitHub co-founder, explains that over the past 15 years he's watched Git become core foundational technology. But today's development environment still suffers from a problem: context keeps breaking down between tools, people, and now between people and agents.

As they see it, Git's existing model is still built around one person, one branch, one terminal, a linear flow. But actual development has already grown more complex, and the arrival of AI tools has made those limits even clearer.

As a first answer to this, a technical preview of the GitButler CLI was released last week. This CLI:

• is designed for short-lived branches and trunk-based workflows like GitHub Flow
• targets people, agents, and scripts alike
• supports stacked branches, multitasking, organizing changes, and easy undo
• can be applied directly to existing Git projects.

The bigger vision is more 'social' coding. GitButler envisions a future where version control tools:

• create logical, beautiful units of change based on the work done
• preserve agent interactions, related conversations, and team context
• surface the possibility of merge conflicts between teammates earlier
• make it more natural to collaborate by stacking one branch on top of a colleague's branch
• let each agent be aware of the work of other agents across the whole team.

Ultimately, this piece is a declaration that GitButler isn't building a "better git," but rather the foundational layer for the next generation of software development.