{"id":59590,"date":"2014-12-05T08:12:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T04:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=59590"},"modified":"2014-12-05T08:12:32","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T04:12:32","slug":"bithound-wekerle-bdc","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/bithound-wekerle-bdc","title":{"rendered":"BitHound Raises $2 Million Seed Round from Michael Wekerle, BDC Capital, Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 11px 33px; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/535466830513451009\/HYQV-j1t.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"170\" \/>BitHound has raised a seed round.<\/p>\n<p>The financing, valued at $2 million, was led by Michael Wekerle of Difference Capital, along with BDC Capital and additional angel investors.<\/p>\n<p><!-- pagebreak --><\/p>\n<p>The Kitchener-based startup is behind a software analytics solution providing developers with the information required to deliver clean, efficient and maintainable code. The funding will &#8220;further accelerate the company&rsquo;s impressive growth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&rsquo;s not hard to write code. But it is hard to write high-quality, maintainable software,&#8221; explains Dan Silivestru, CEO of bitHound. &#8220;Our goal is to become a trusted member of a development team, providing valuable insights and actionable recommendations leading to great software.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This funding will propel us further into creating a tool where developers can use real-time predictive analysis to create the best software possible,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bithound.io\" target=\"_blank\">BitHound<\/a> is redefining the way developers and management work together, creating a tool that will foster conversation among developer teams,&rdquo; said Wekerle, one of the dragons on CBC&rsquo;s Dragons&rsquo; Den.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BitHound has raised a seed round. The financing, valued at $2 million, was led by Michael Wekerle of Difference Capital, along with BDC Capital and additional angel investors. The Kitchener-based startup is behind a software analytics solution providing developers with the information required to deliver clean, efficient and maintainable code. The funding will &#8220;further accelerate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54503,"featured_media":59592,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-59590","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/59590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/54503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/59590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/59592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59590"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=59590"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=59590"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=59590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}