Coding Assistants Private

Replit

AI-first coding platform and IDE

Founded 2016 San Francisco, CA 500+ employees Series B ($100M raised) Freemium + Subscription

Funding Status

Series B ($100M raised)

Private Company

About Replit

Replit is an AI-first coding platform that combines a cloud IDE, hosting, and AI assistant into a single environment where developers can build, deploy, and ship software entirely in the browser. Founded in 2016 by Amjad Masad, Replit has grown to over 30 million developers.

Replit's AI features include Ghostwriter (AI code completion and generation), Agent (autonomous coding agent that builds applications from natural language descriptions), and AI-assisted debugging. The platform is particularly popular among students, new developers, and rapid prototypers who want to go from idea to deployed application without managing infrastructure.

Replit Agent represents one of the most ambitious agentic coding products — it can take a project description and autonomously create a complete web application, setting up the project structure, writing code, installing dependencies, and deploying it.

Products & Services

Replit IDE

Cloud-based code editor supporting 50+ languages. No setup required — start coding instantly in the browser.

Developer Tool

Replit Agent

Autonomous coding agent that builds complete applications from natural language descriptions.

AI Agent

Ghostwriter

AI coding assistant with completion, generation, transformation, and explanation. Context-aware across your project.

AI Feature

Replit Deployments

One-click deployment for web apps, APIs, and static sites. Integrated hosting with autoscaling.

Hosting

Leadership

Amjad Masad

Founder & CEO

Former engineer at Facebook. Mission to make programming accessible to everyone.

Notable Achievements

✓ 30M+ developers on the platform
✓ Replit Agent can autonomously build and deploy complete web applications
✓ Browser-based — zero setup, instant coding in 50+ languages
✓ One of the most popular platforms for learning to code
✓ Raised $100M at $1.16B valuation

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