Company record
Cline
Updated November 9, 2026 · Presspool
Cline makes an open-source AI coding agent that runs in IDEs, the terminal and a desktop app to read, edit and run code from natural-language tasks. cline.bot
Funding
- $32 million Seed and Series A, announced July 31, 2025. Led by Emergence Capital. Sources: Cline (GlobeNewswire), VC News Daily.
Whether AI names Cline
- On the AI coding map: named or cited in 13 of 46 answers to Presspool's AI coding questions on November 9, 2026 (ChatGPT 2 of 8, Claude 4 of 8, Perplexity 2 of 8, Gemini 2 of 8, Google AI Mode 1 of 8, Google AI Overviews 2 of 6). See the map. Of the 32 companies on the map, Cline ranked 4th by answers naming or citing it in that sample. The other companies AI names most on AI coding questions: Cursor (37 of 46), Cognition (25 of 46), Replit (17 of 46), Qodo (12 of 46) and Lovable (10 of 46). Most often named in the same answers: Cursor (13), Cognition (11), Replit (6), Augment Code (3), Lovable (3).
Week by week
Answers that named or cited Cline in each weekly sample of Presspool's AI coding questions, by the Monday of the sample week. A row is added every week. Copilot answers count through November 2, 2026, the last day Copilot answered. Copilot is no longer asked, so later weeks are not counted on the same apps as earlier ones.
| Week of | AI coding |
|---|---|
| September 28, 2026 | 10 of 56 |
| October 5, 2026 | 11 of 48 |
| October 12, 2026 | 15 of 52 |
| October 19, 2026 | 12 of 53 |
| October 26, 2026 | 11 of 55 |
| November 2, 2026 | 13 of 53 |
| November 9, 2026 | 13 of 46 |
Sources AI cites when it names Cline
Presspool asked its 8 AI coding questions on November 9, 2026; 13 of the 46 answers named or cited Cline, on ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Mode and Google AI Overviews. The sites those 13 answers cited most:
- zapier.com: 5 of 13 answers
- bito.ai: 2 of 13 answers
- codegen.com: 2 of 13 answers
- devin.ai: 2 of 13 answers
- g2.com: 2 of 13 answers
- github.com: 2 of 13 answers
- goodday.work: 2 of 13 answers
- kiro.dev: 2 of 13 answers
- morphllm.com: 2 of 13 answers
- openai.com: 2 of 13 answers
Related records
Also on the AI coding map: Anything, Augment Code, Bilt, Bolt.new, Builder.io, CodeRabbit, Cognition, Cursor, Emergent, Factory, Greptile, Imbue and 19 more on the map.
Emergence Capital, which led this round, also led Verda ($189 million (€163 million) Series B plus additional investment, September 22, 2026). It is also named as an investor in Ando ($20 million Seed, September 24, 2026) and Sela ($21 million Seed and Series A, September 22, 2026).