"We want to give you an offer."

Two months ago, I heard these words from a VC.
As an 18-year-old immigrant and high school student, raising an $800K pre-seed round feels surreal.

I’m beyond thankful and excited to announce that Water Tower Ventures and RTP Global have invested in Kodezi’s pre-seed round. Huge thanks to Jeremy, Idan, and the entire Water Tower team, and to Tom and Alex from RTP Global, it’s been incredible working with you. Thank you for believing in our mission. I can’t wait to see what we’ll accomplish together over the next 12 months.

A special thank you goes to Eric, the first person who invested in my vision. Your guidance (even answering Slack messages at 3 a.m.!) has been invaluable.

Over the past year, I’ve worked relentlessly on Kodezi, what many now call the “Grammarly for programmers.”
After launching our closed beta, the response blew me away: thousands of signups, conversations with engineers and students from places like MIT, Stanford, Harvard, and even my own high school.

Everyone shared the same pain:
They wanted to spend less time debugging and more time building.

The reality is shocking: it takes 30x longer to fix a bug than to write the original code. And yet, existing solutions don’t address this fundamental problem.

At the same time, I found myself pitching angel investors, VCs, and tech executives, conversations I never imagined having at 18.

Many meetings ended with:

• "We love your idea, but you're too young."

• "Will people actually use this?"

• "You should work for a company first."

I’d be lying if I said those rejections didn’t affect me. But the validation from users kept me going, because I knew Kodezi could have a profound impact, especially in education.

Today, we’re piloting Kodezi across my local school district, and we were selected for the prestigious Elite 200 at the ASU+GSV Summit, showcasing the most innovative edtech startups globally.

Beyond education, Kodezi is catching the attention of engineers at companies like Slack, Airbase, Amazon, and Tesla, reaching out to us for help with improving debugging and speeding up product delivery.

We’re now building Kodezi to support:

• Team collaboration

• Large codebases

• IDE extensions

• Enterprise-grade features

So yes, I’m 18.
I'm unproven.
I'm too young to legally drink at networking events.
But I've learned more in this past year than I ever could have imagined.
It’s been exciting, stressful, terrifying, and unforgettable, a crash course that feels like my own self-taught MBA.

With this new round of funding, an incredible team, and a strong support system behind me, I’m excited for the future.
We’re just getting started.

Thank you for being part of the journey.