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It’s been 10 years since Kayvon Beykpour sold Periscope to Twitter for the reported $100 million, and social media sites have been able to jump into live streaming.
In 2021, Twitter closed Periscope, and now known as X, the parent company owned by Elon Musk has been drawn to a live event product called Spaces.
Meanwhile, Beykpour, who spent seven years on Twitter after the acquisition, has returned in large quantities. He said Wednesday he raised $40 million from venture investors, including GV (previously Google Venture), Lightspeed Venture Partners and Thrive Capital.
While Periscope was targeting consumer audiences, Macroscope went straight ahead following companies. Beykpour’s idea is to help software developers find code problems easily and show managers what the engineer is doing.
Beykpour said the lack of transparency in the software development process was a major problem in previous gigs.
“A lot of my job as a Twitter product manager was just that hell understood what was going on,” Beykpour said in an interview. “You have all these engineers in the company, and you have all these very important things that we have to do with absolute opacity, what progress we have made. What are these people working on?”
He said the startup set out to help product leaders first and later added features for programmers.
Macroscope is integrated Microsoft– Github source code repository and project management software Atlassian and linear. The technology connects to humanity’s artificial intelligence models. Google Openai can also propose alternative code and answer questions from developers and product executives.
Products like Github Copilot and Cursor’s Buggot can already be found in AI Help. Beykpour said it is better than competitors in Macroscope testing to correctly identify known software bugs.
And there’s not much available when it comes to tools that help managers understand developer activity, Beykpour said.
“They’re working on that at the meeting,” he said. “If we can’t surpass the bar, people call meetings and ask a lot of engineers what’s going on, and we failed miserably.”
Macroscope costs $30 per developer per month. This includes the boss status check component, but the cursor is $32 per month if purchased annually.
Early users include Film Studio A24, online learning startup classes, and Probiotics Company Seed Health.
Beykpour launched Macroscope in 2023 with Joseph Bernstein, co-founder of Periscope, and Rob Bishop, founder of the 2016 Twitter-acquired AI startup Magic Pony.
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