Kodesage, a startup developing an
on-premise AI platform for legacy software modernisation, has raised $6.6
million in a seed funding round led by VentureFriends. Existing investor
Portfolion also participated in the round, alongside angel investors including
Christian Szegedy, co-founder of xAI, and German footballer Mario Götze.
Founded in 2024 by Gergely Dombi,
Miklos Szurdi and Gyorgy Szilagyi, Kodesage helps enterprises understand,
document and modernise complex legacy software systems. Its platform extracts
information from source code and documentation to create a continuously updated
knowledge layer that enables teams to maintain, migrate and support
mission-critical applications with greater efficiency and lower risk.
Kodesage is primarily focused on
highly regulated industries, including banking, insurance, energy,
transportation, telecommunications and the public sector, where critical
business operations often continue to rely on software built decades ago. While
these systems remain essential to day-to-day operations, modernising them can
be costly and complex, particularly as experienced engineers retire and
institutional knowledge becomes harder to access.
The platform is designed to analyse
both modern and legacy technology stacks, including Oracle Forms, PL/SQL,
COBOL, PowerBuilder and RPG. It automates tasks such as codebase discovery,
documentation generation, context-aware code conversion, test creation and
AI-assisted production support.
To address data residency and
compliance requirements, Kodesage operates entirely within customer-controlled
environments, whether on-premise, in a virtual private cloud or in fully
air-gapped deployments. This approach allows organisations to use AI-powered
tooling while keeping source code, databases and business-critical information
within their own infrastructure.
Software modernisation is rarely
straightforward, particularly in regulated industries where legacy and modern
systems often need to coexist for years. As institutional knowledge gradually
disappears, the burden of maintaining these systems continues to grow. Our goal
is to help organisations modernise faster, reduce operational complexity and
improve support through AI-assisted tooling,
said Gergely Dombi, co-founder and CEO
of Kodesage.
The company plans to use the new
funding to expand its go-to-market efforts across the US and Europe, while
continuing to invest in product development and engineering. Kodesage said its
long-term vision is to enable self-healing enterprise applications capable of
continuously learning, testing and validating improvements with human oversight.