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PlayerZero, a startup founded by Animesh Koratana, has raised $15 million in Series A funding to address the issue of AI-generated code bugs. The funding round was led by Foundation Capital, with participation from high-profile angels such as Databricks’ Matei Zaharia, Dropbox’s Drew Houston, Figma’s Dylan Field, and Vercel’s Guillermo Rauch. PlayerZero’s technology uses AI to detect and fix bugs in enterprise codebases before they go into production, acting as an ‘immune system’ for large code systems. The solution has already been adopted by companies like Zuora to safeguard their critical code, such as billing systems. The startup emerged from Koratana’s work at Stanford’s DAWN lab, where he was exposed to AI coding tools and recognized the future dominance of AI in software development.