Warp
Headquarters
New York, NYFounded
2020CEO / Founder
Zach LloydEmployees
51-200Funding
Series B — $173MProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
7.5/10Website
warp.dev/
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About Warp
Warp develops a modern terminal application for developers, rebuilt from the ground up to incorporate AI assistance and collaboration features. The company was founded in 2020 by Zach Lloyd, a former Google engineer who worked on Google Sheets, and is headquartered in New York City.
The Warp terminal replaces traditional command-line interfaces with a text-editor-like experience, adding features such as command blocks, autosuggestions, and an integrated AI agent that can write and execute commands, debug errors, and assist with coding tasks across a developer's workflow. The product supports macOS, Linux, and Windows, and positions itself as an agentic development environment for working with AI coding agents rather than a conventional shell replacement.
Warp has raised funding from investors including Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and Dylan Field, among others, across multiple rounds since its founding. The company has grown its team and user base substantially since launching its terminal publicly, targeting individual developers and engineering teams as customers.
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Competitive Landscape
Who Warp competes with, and how they differ.
Claude Code is Anthropic's own CLI coding agent, distributed via Claude subscriptions/API and locked to Anthropic's models, whereas Warp is a full terminal GUI with multi-model support that (via Oz) can now run Claude Code itself alongside its native agent.
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Cursor is a VS Code fork built as an AI-first code editor, competing for the same agentic-coding budget from inside the IDE rather than the terminal that Warp rebuilt as the agent's home base.
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Windsurf is another VS Code-based AI IDE with its own Cascade agent, competing on in-editor agentic coding rather than Warp's terminal-first, editor-agnostic approach.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Codex CLI is OpenAI's free, open-source terminal coding agent locked to OpenAI's own models, while Warp sells a fuller terminal product (collaboration via Warp Drive, multi-model BYOK) built to run agents from any provider, including Codex.
2 products reviewed on TopReviewed
GitHub Copilot is bundled into VS Code and GitHub with per-seat enterprise pricing inside Microsoft's ecosystem, competing on IDE-embedded completion and chat rather than Warp's standalone terminal-native agent experience.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedCompany Timeline
Key milestones in Warp's history, with sources.
- Partnership
Oz becomes multi-harness, adds Claude Code and Codex
Warp Oz becomes what the company calls the first multi-harness control plane for cloud agents, letting teams launch, track and govern Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex alongside Warp's own agent from one interface.
warp.dev - Milestone
Warp open-sources its client; OpenAI is founding sponsor
Warp open-sources its terminal client with OpenAI as founding sponsor of the community effort; the company says it has close to one million active developers after five years of engineering.
warp.dev - Launch
Warp Oz cloud agent orchestration platform launches
Warp launches Oz, a cloud platform for deploying, scheduling, monitoring and governing coding agents at scale; Warp says Oz already writes 60% of its own pull requests internally.
warp.dev - Milestone
600K active users, ~$1M ARR added every 10 days
TechCrunch reports Warp has 600,000 active users and is adding roughly $1M in ARR every 10 days as it ships diff-tracking "Warp Code" tools, competing against Cursor, Windsurf, Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex.
techcrunch.com - Launch
Warp ships natively on Windows
Warp brings its AI-powered terminal to Windows (PowerShell, WSL, Git Bash) on x64 and ARM64, completing coverage of macOS, Linux and Windows.
thenewstack.io - Launch
Agent Mode launches
Warp ships Agent Mode, letting developers describe multi-step tasks in plain English for the AI to execute directly in the terminal, self-correcting on errors.
warp.dev - Launch
Warp for Linux ships
Warp releases native Linux builds (.deb, .rpm, .pkg.tar.zst, AppImage) for Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch and Red Hat with feature parity to the macOS app.
warp.dev - Launch
Warp Drive team collaboration launches
Warp launches Warp Drive, letting teams save, annotate and share terminal commands as searchable "workflows" synced across the team.
warp.dev - Funding
Series B — $50M led by Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital leads a $50M Series B, with partner Andrew Reed joining Warp's board; new angel investors Sam Altman and Tobi Lutke join existing backers Dylan Field, GV, Neo, BoxGroup, Jeff Weiner and Marc Benioff.
warp.dev - Launch
Public beta launches on macOS
Warp exits nine months of private beta and opens its macOS public beta to all developers for free.
warp.dev - Funding
$23M seed + Series A revealed — GV, Dylan Field
Warp discloses $23M raised to date: a $6M seed led by GV (with Neo and BoxGroup) and a $17M Series A led by Figma CEO Dylan Field, with Elad Gil, Jeff Weiner and Marc Benioff also participating.
warp.dev - Founded
Zach Lloyd founds Warp
Ex-Google principal engineer (Google Sheets) Zach Lloyd founds Warp, legal entity Denver Technologies Inc., to reinvent the terminal for developers.
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