Comper, a Dutch software intelligence platform helping teams understand, navigate, and collaborate inside complex code landscapes, today announced the close of its pre-Seed round led by Productfirst.
While the round remains undisclosed, co-founder Juan Uijtewaal shared with EU-Startups that “It’s still early for Comper, so we chose not to disclose the amount or set a valuation yet. Together with our investors, we agreed to stay flexible and focus on further developing the product and growing the team, with plans to formalise this in a Seed round at a later stage.”
This recent funding will be put towards expanding Comper’s early access programme and continue working with product-led teams navigating fast-growing codebases.
“I started building Comper for myself as a CTO cockpit, but it turned out to be useful for a lot of people, even non-technical ones. Now, with the acceleration of AI coding, software teams are scaling faster than their ability to understand their own systems. Staying on top of your code landscape is more relevant than ever; our timing couldn’t be better,” says Jouke Waleson, technical co-founder of Comper. “We’re building Comper to remove that black box and give teams shared clarity across their codebases.”
Recent sector rounds point to sustained funding activity across developer tooling, AI-enabled software platforms and internal tools, providing useful context for Comper’s newly announced pre-Seed round.
In 2026, Milan-based Bricks.sh raised €1.6 million at pre-Seed to automate internal admin panels, while Spain’s Fracttal secured €29.8 million to expand its AI-powered maintenance software across Europe and Latin America.
In 2025, Stockholm-based Lovable closed a €281 million Series B to scale its AI-native application-building platform globally, while fellow Swedish startup Ivy Interactive raised €917k at pre-Seed to accelerate internal tool development using AI.
Elsewhere, London-based Ankar secured €17 million to grow its AI-driven IP software, and Prague-based Bandits raised €400k to streamline AI integrations for business workflows.
Taken together, these disclosed rounds represent well over €330 million invested into software, AI and developer-focused platforms across Europe in 2025 and 2026, situating Comper’s undisclosed pre-Seed round within a broader pattern of capital flowing into tools designed to help teams better build, understand and scale complex software systems.
Perry Oostdam, Investor at Productfirst, adds: “After meeting the team and seeing the product, I called Pawel immediately. We didn’t want to miss this opportunity. Comper brings immediate clarity to something every scaling company struggles with; understanding their codebase as a living system. The speed at which this came together reflects the strength of both the product and the founders behind it.”
Founded in 2025 after a year in stealth, Comper is a software intelligence platform that helps teams understand and work inside their codebases with clarity. By turning a company’s codebase into a shared, explorable system, Comper looks to enable better collaboration, faster onboarding, and more confident decision-making.
Comper was founded by Jouke Waleson, ex-Mendix, software engineer, CTO, then fractional CTO; and Juan Uijtewaal, ex-Miro, and experienced COO. Each have previously worked across high-growth companies where codebase complexity directly impacted velocity, quality, and team health.
According to the company, they are rethinking how engineering, product and leadership teams collaborate by making codebases visible, explorable, and shareable across entire organisations. Described as “Figma for codebases,” Comper enables faster onboarding, clearer decision-making, and more resilient software development at scale.
Pawel Smoczyk, former CTO turned investor, shares: “After years of leading engineering teams, I’ve learned that most risk doesn’t come from bad code, but from a lack of shared understanding across the team. What convinced me about Comper is that it addresses this at the root – not with more documentation, but with a clear, shared view of how the software actually works and how teams are structured around it.“
Read the orginal article: https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/01/utrechts-comper-raises-pre-seed-round-to-improve-visibility-across-large-codebases-described-as-figma-for-codebases/
