GitHits has raised $1.75 million in pre-seed funding to develop the "Google of code search" 

Wilmington, DELAWARE, June 16, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The investors included Vendep Capital, Trind, and notable angel investors such as Peter Sarlin, Zach Shelby, and LlamaIndex co-founder Jerry Liu.

From top left: Taru Wahlroos and Timo Felin from Vendep Capital; Jaakko Timonen, GitHits CEO. From bottom left: GitHits co-founders Nathan Burg, Olli-Pekka Heinisuo, Juha Litola

"Our vision is to index all public open-source code. With this funding, we are launching the beta version of the product today, and the first commercial version later this year," says CEO Jaakko Timonen."OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google have left a gap in the market. GitHits doesn't compete with Codex, Claude Code, or Cursor, but complements them by bringing open-source code as context for agents to end retry loops and reduce token consumption," says CTO Olli-Pekka Heinisuo.Heinisuo has extensive experience in the open-source ...