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Cline

Application

Develops Cline, an open-source AI coding agent that runs in the editor, the terminal or an SDK; free for individual developers who pay only for inference, with custom-priced enterprise deployments in their own VPC, on-premises or air-gapped.

Total funding$32M

Valuation—

Employees—

Founded—

HeadquartersSan Francisco, USA

StatusPrivate

Product

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• Cline AI agent Sold on its own

  Cline is an open-source coding agent that plans, edits files across a project and runs terminal commands, used as an IDE extension (VS Code, JetBrains, Cursor, Windsurf), a CLI, a desktop app or an SDK, with any major model provider.

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Total funding

Company disclosure · 24 Sep 2026

Cline's own post of 2025-07-31: "Cline has raised $32M in combined Series A and Seed funding, led by Emergence Capital and Pace Capital". Its most recent funding statement on the company blog as read.

Valuation

Not found · 24 Sep 2026

No valuation stated in the company's funding post or elsewhere on cline.bot.

Employees

Not found · 24 Sep 2026

No headcount on /careers or the funding post.

Founded

Not found · 24 Sep 2026

No incorporation year stated: cline.bot, /careers, /contact, /privacy, /tos and the 2025-07-31 funding post give none. Wikipedia dates the open-source project to June 2024 ("created by software developer Saoud Rizwan in June 2024 for an Anthropic programming hackathon") but not the company.

Public listing

Company disclosure · 24 Sep 2026

Cline Bot Inc. is venture-funded and privately held; no public listing or filing found.

Description

Company disclosure · 24 Sep 2026

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