Codeium

AI-powered code completion and developer assistant.

HQ: San Francisco, CA, USA

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Aug 2, 2026

Overview

Codeium (founded as Exafunction and later branded Windsurf) was a Mountain View AI developer-tools company that built generative-AI coding assistance, then an agentic IDE. In July 2025, Google hired the founders and part of the R&D team and licensed technology, while Cognition agreed to acquire the remaining Windsurf business. By 2026, Windsurf has been repositioned as Devin Desktop under Cognition, so Codeium is best understood as a historical company/brand rather than an independent operating startup.

Primary product

Windsurf, formerly Codeium: an AI-native/agentic IDE with autocomplete, chat, codebase search and indexing, multi-file editing, code generation, review and agent workflows. The current successor product is marketed as Devin Desktop.

Founded

2021

Headquarters

Mountain View, California, United States

Team size

200–300; LinkedIn reported 213 employees in an August 2026 snapshot, but post-acquisition headcount is not independently clear

Work style

Onsite

Industry

Software Development / Technology, Information and Internet

Sub-industry

AI developer tools; generative-AI coding assistants; agentic software engineering

Offices

Mountain View, California (321 Castro St / downtown Mountain View)

Austin, Texas (historical hiring office)

London, United Kingdom (historical EMEA hiring office)

Business model

Freemium individual developer subscription

Per-seat team and enterprise SaaS

Enterprise private-cloud, hybrid, VPC and on-premise/air-gapped deployments

Enterprise services and managed deployment

Funding

Stage

Historically Series C / venture-backed unicorn; no longer an independent financing-stage company after the 2025 transactions

Total raised

$243M

Latest round

Series C · Aug 2024

Latest amount

$150M

Series C

Aug 2024 · General Catalyst

$150M

Series B

Jan 2024 · Kleiner Perkins

$65M

Seed

Jan 2021 · Greenoaks

$3M

Series A

Greenoaks

People & investors

Leadership

Varun Mohan

Co-founder and CEO of Codeium/Windsurf (June 2021–July 2025); subsequently Google DeepMind

Douglas Chen

Co-founder of Codeium/Windsurf (June 2021–July 2025); subsequently Google DeepMind

Jeff Wang

Interim CEO of Windsurf from July 2025; now President, New Enterprise at Cognition

Graham Moreno

President of Windsurf from July 2025; previously VP of Global Sales

Investors

Work & culture

Historical recruiting materials emphasized high trust, agency, ownership, speed, product and customer focus, frequent code reviews, and strong software-engineering execution. Engineering postings said the best work was done in person and required five days per week in the office for some teams.

Work style

Onsite

Compensation

Historical postings showed approximately $140,000–$220,000 for an AI Product Engineer and $150,000–$300,000 for high-performance ML engineering, plus equity for some roles. These are job-posting signals, not a current company-wide compensation band.

Benefits

Medical, dental and vision insurance

401(k)

Equity

Catered lunches and stocked kitchens

Commuter benefits

Team events and activities

Learning and advancement opportunities

Product & market

Pricing

Historical Codeium/Windsurf pricing used a free individual tier plus paid Pro, Teams and Enterprise plans; a current Windsurf/Devin Desktop page lists Free, Pro ($20/month), Max ($200/month), Teams ($80/month plus $40/seat) and custom Enterprise pricing. Pricing is subject to post-acquisition changes.

Differentiators

—Support for 70+ programming languages and 40+ IDEs/editors
—Agentic IDE workflows beyond autocomplete
—Model and product independence from a single source-control provider
—Enterprise controls including RBAC, audit logging, hybrid deployment and private infrastructure
—Remote indexing and multi-repository context
—Attribution/licensing controls and stated avoidance of training on non-permissively licensed code

Technology

Proprietary code-biased large language models

Windsurf Editor / agentic IDE

Autocomplete and in-editor chat

Codebase context retrieval, remote indexing and multi-repository awareness

Kubernetes

CUDA, Nvidia CUTLASS and PTX

PyTorch / GPU and HPC infrastructure

Docker

Python and JavaScript

Azure, Google Cloud and other cloud infrastructure

RBAC integrations with Azure AD, Okta and SCIM

Customers

Zillow

Dell

Anduril

Ramp

Harvey

NVIDIA

Modal

Intact Financial

Mercado Libre

Competitors

GitHub Copilot

Cursor / Anysphere

Tabnine

Poolside

Amazon Q Developer

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

Approximately $80M–$100M annual recurring revenue around July 2025; Cognition stated $82M ARR, while earlier reporting cited approximately $40M ARR in February 2025. No audited current revenue is public.

Estimated monthly visits

67.1K

hello@codeium.com

Signals & risks

Other

Jul 2025

Google hired co-founder/CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen and other R&D staff, reportedly paying about $2.4 billion for technology licensing and talent; Google did not acquire control of Windsurf.

Source

Acquisition

Jul 2025

Cognition signed a definitive agreement to acquire the remaining Windsurf business, including IP, product, brand, business and the employees not hired by Google. Financial terms were not disclosed by Cognition; press reports described the business as having about $82 million ARR and 350+ enterprise customers.

Source

Other

Jul 2025

A reported approximately $3 billion OpenAI acquisition agreement expired/fell apart before the Google licensing/talent transaction.

Source

Other

Jun 2026

The product and brand have since been integrated/repositioned under Cognition as Devin Desktop; this creates substantial historical-versus-current ambiguity for Codeium employee, leadership, traffic and operating metrics.

Source

Latest news

Codeium is now Devin Desktop

Windsurf / Cognition · Jun 2026

The current product page describes Devin Desktop as the new name for Windsurf and provides current product features, pricing and customers.

Cognition’s acquisition of Windsurf

Cognition · Jul 2025

Cognition announced acquisition of Windsurf’s IP, product, brand, business and remaining team, citing approximately $82M ARR and 350+ enterprise customers.

Google hires Windsurf CEO and researchers in $2.4B deal

Reuters · Jul 2025

Google hired Varun Mohan, Douglas Chen and other R&D staff and licensed Windsurf technology without taking control of the company.

Windsurf’s CEO goes to Google; OpenAI’s acquisition falls apart

TechCrunch · Jul 2025

Reported that OpenAI’s approximately $3B acquisition effort failed and described the resulting reverse-acquihire and leadership transition.

OpenAI in talks to pay about $3 billion to acquire AI coding startup Windsurf

CNBC · Apr 2025

Reported OpenAI was in talks to acquire Windsurf (formerly Codeium) for about $3B; the story noted major investors including Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Greenoaks and Kleiner Perkins.

Jobs and careers at Codeium

98 jobs at Codeium

Commercial Partner Manager

On-site

Sales

San Francisco, Austin, New York City; United States

1d ago

On-site

Full-time