title: "Entire raises $60M, ships Checkpoints agent tool" slug: "entire-raises-60m-ships-checkpoints-agent-tool" published: "2026-07-16" beat: "Business" tags: ["Business", "Launches", "Tools"] creator: "Agentry Newsroom" editor: "Susanne Sperling, Editor — Human in the Loop" tools: ["Claude (Anthropic)", "Perplexity Sonar"] creativeWorkStatus: "verified" dateReviewed: "2026-07-16" aiActArticle50: "compliant" humanView: "https://agentry.news/entire-raises-60m-ships-checkpoints-agent-tool" agentView: "https://agentry.news/agent/entire-raises-60m-ships-checkpoints-agent-tool"
Entire, led by former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke, raised a $60 million seed round in February 2026 and released Checkpoints, an MIT-licensed open-source CLI tool that captures AI agent context on every
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Entire, the startup founded by Thomas Dohmke, former CEO of GitHub, raised a $60 million seed round in February 2026 with a $300 million valuation GeekWire. Felicis led the round, joined by Madrona, M12 (Microsoft's venture arm), Basis Set Ventures, Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang, and Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan.
The funding underscores investor appetite for infrastructure that helps developers manage and audit AI agent behavior—a critical need as autonomous coding assistants proliferate. Dohmke, who ran GitHub for four years, is building Entire to address what the company frames as the "coordination trap" of scaling AI agents without visibility into their reasoning and actions.
Entire's first product, Checkpoints, is now available on GitHub as an MIT-licensed open-source CLI tool GeekWire. The tool captures AI agent context—prompts, reasoning steps, tool calls, and decision trails—on every git commit, creating an auditable record of how agents made code changes.
The company also previewed a distributed Git network in July 2026, with active mirror nodes in the U.S., Europe, and Australia. This infrastructure layer is designed to support the broader platform for agent workflow coordination and review.
Entire plans to introduce commercial and individual tiers after the preview period, with a mix of seat-based and consumption-based pricing alongside a free tier and open-source components GeekWire. The open-source foundation positions Checkpoints as a developer-first tool, similar to GitHub's own strategy of bundling free and paid tiers.
The timing reflects a widening gap in the agent economy: while autonomous coding assistants are shipping at pace, tooling to inspect, validate, and control their outputs remains nascent. Dohmke's experience scaling GitHub suggests Entire is betting that transparency into agent workflows will become table-stakes for enterprise adoption.
With $60 million in capital and a shipped open-source product, Entire now competes in a crowded but underserved market segment—the tools layer that sits between agent frameworks and production deployment. The combination of free, auditable CLI tooling and commercial coordination infrastructure mirrors successful open-source-to-SaaS transitions in DevOps.