Crowdbotics is a software development company, founded by 📝Anand Kulkarni in 2016 and headquartered in Berkeley, California, that uses AI and reusable code to compress the application development lifecycle. The platform lets product teams describe an app in plain language and assembles it from a library of production-grade, modular software components, then manages infrastructure, implementation, maintenance, and security for the life of the project. Its customers range from non-technical founders to enterprises and government agencies.
Crowdbotics began as a managed, network-driven development service — pairing a curated library of code packages with on-demand developers — on the thesis that most applications share common features and that demand for software will keep outstripping the supply of engineers. The company raised a $40M Series B in January 2023, led by New Enterprise Associates, to extend that thesis into generative AI, becoming an early adopter of large language models for plain-language code suggestion. It has since shipped GitHub Copilot integrations and CoreStory, a code-intelligence product that turns legacy codebases into detailed specifications to modernize systems and de-risk AI-assisted development. In April 2025, defense-technology firm Shield AI acquired Crowdbotics' DDR software.
I'm an investor in Crowdbotics through 📝Citizens of One, and we instrument the business as a 📝Weekly Accounting client. It's a clean example of eating your own dog food — software people using systematic accounting to read their company like a cockpit.