{"slug":"software-company","title":"Software Company","summary":"License the private code the engineering team has built, and the history behind it.","category":"software","company_size":"15–500 employees","location":"Anywhere","deal_min_cents":5000000,"deal_max_cents":50000000,"referral_base_cents":2500000,"boosters":[{"id":"0cb4a0c2-2ef6-4036-b898-0b3d65946fb3","kind":"fast_signing","amount_cents":1000000,"recipients":"referrer_and_company","window_days":1,"ends_on":null}],"published_at":"2026-10-17T18:28:32.084200Z","referred_count":68,"status":"live","description":"We're looking for software companies with a real engineering history: private repositories that many engineers have worked on for years, with tests that still run. Live products, retired products and codebases from acquisitions all qualify, as long as the code has never been public. Teams that also kept their tickets, design docs and postmortems are an especially strong fit.","history":"3+ years of commits","industries":"B2B SaaS, fintech, marketplaces, developer tools, healthtech, and internal platform teams at non-software companies","tools":["GitHub","GitLab","Bitbucket","Jira","Linear","Confluence"],"requirements":["Private repositories that have never been public, mirrored or open-sourced","3+ years of commit history from at least 10 engineers","50,000+ lines of code the company owns outright","Code written by people, with tests that run"],"nice_to_have":["Thousands of pull requests with review discussion","Tickets, design docs, runbooks and postmortems from the same team","Code in C, C++, Rust, Swift, Kotlin, Ruby, COBOL or .NET","Banking, insurance, healthcare, trading or blockchain software","History that mostly predates 2025","Openness to an exclusive license on part of the code"],"included":["Git history with branches and diffs","Pull requests and code reviews","Test suites and CI configuration","Linked tickets and engineering docs, where they exist"],"not_a_fit":["Forks or copies of open-source projects","Student, hackathon or side projects, or code mostly written by AI tools","Client work an agency doesn't own","Repositories with a single author"],"scoping_questions":["How many private repositories do you have, and how many engineers have committed to them?","When did development start, and roughly how many pull requests exist?","Which languages make up most of the code?","Has any of this code been public or licensed to anyone before?"],"ideal_referrers":"CTOs and engineering leaders, founders of acquired or wound-down startups, and investors with portfolio companies that have closed.","deal_note":"More for large codebases or exclusive terms","intake_form":"general"}