Itamar Friedman

Itamar Friedman is co-founder and CEO of Qodo (formerly CodiumAI), an AI code-integrity company focused on tests, pull-request review, and coding agents. He came from academic and industry software-quality work and keeps arguing that generation without verification is only half a product.

From CodiumAI to Qodo

Friedman co-founded CodiumAI to help developers generate meaningful tests and review assistance rather than only complete lines. The company later rebranded to Qodo as the surface widened to agents across the software lifecycle. A Not Another CEO conversation walks through that expansion and the insistence on measurable code quality.

Series A and the integrity thesis

Qodo raised a large Series A that brought total funding into the tens of millions, with positioning around pull-request review, test generation, and agent workflows that teams can trust in CI. Friedman's conference talks (including All Things Open) stress benchmarks and defect finding over demo flair.

On agents that earn review rights

He talks about coding agents as teammates that still need gates - tests, policies, human review - before their diffs land. That integrity framing is how he differentiates from pure autocomplete vendors and how he explains enterprise willingness to pay.