Elias studied Computer Science at 15, eventually joining Google full-time at 19.  Having seen the tooling used for development, he decided to quit and build a high-quality developer experience in the cloud for anybody else.

In Codesphere's cloud, developers can collaboratively write code and directly deploy it as a software application. "We are to development what Figma is to design or Google Docs is to documents," says CEO Elias Schneider.

The Karlsruhe start-up Codesphere has received €16.6 million in a funding round in May 2024. Among the investors are key backers such as the Swedish venture capital firm Creandum and OpenAI investor Firestreak. Creandum has invested in companies like the streaming service Spotify and fintechs Klarna and Trade Republic, and Codesphere is the only investment they made yet in Baden-Württemberg.

Overall, the Codesphere team, which consists of former Google developers, has raised $ 27.4 million to date.