Alex raises $5.3M to build the future of Apple development
We’re excited to share that Alex has raised $5.3 million to build the future of Apple development.
This round includes Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, SV Angel, Chapter One, and Steve Huffman (co‑founder and CEO of Reddit).
Why this matters
Apple development is at a turning point. AI is changing how software is designed, built, and shipped — but Xcode wasn’t built with agents in mind. Alex is an AI‑native runtime for Apple developers: it reads, writes, runs, debugs, and ships code with you — directly next to Xcode.
Developers use Alex to:
- Build new features faster with context‑aware, file‑attached chat
- Generate SwiftUI and platform code grounded in your codebase
- Run and debug apps with simulator control and traceable reasoning
The future
We're assembling an elite team of developers who want to build the next Xcode.
Current IDEs are outdated. We want to build a world-class IDE for the next stage of coding -- dedicated entirely to Apple platform devs.
We believe that in a hyper-competitive market, focus is our main advantage. We intend to optimize every facet of the Apple platform experience, from the IDE all the way down to the model itself.
Thank you to our community — your feedback, bug reports, and feature requests have shaped Alex from day one.
If you haven’t tried Alex yet, you can download it here and start building with an AI copilot purpose‑built for Apple development.
— Daniel and the Alex team
We’re hiring
We’re hiring in San Francisco for:
- Software Engineer (IDE)
- Software Engineer (Agents Infra)
- ML Engineer
- QA Engineer
- Forward-Deployed Engineer
- Data Analyst
- Product Designer
- GTM
- Growth
If you’re excited to build the future of Apple development, check out our Careers page and email us at [email protected].