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Sema

Codebase scans for technical due diligence

4.0Per-engagement / CustomBest for Software investors making technical DD systematic
Technical DD Code Quality AI

Overview

Sema provides technical due diligence on codebases: automated scans plus expert review that grade code quality, security posture, open-source license exposure, technical debt and engineering-team retention risk. Its reports — including an AI Code Monitor that flags how much of a codebase is GenAI-written — give non-technical partners a defensible view of what they are actually buying into.

Key features

  • Comprehensive codebase health scans
  • Open-source license and security risk analysis
  • Technical-debt and code-quality scoring
  • AI Code Monitor for GenAI-written code detection
  • Investor-ready reports with expert interpretation

Pros

  • Turns 'the code is fine' into evidence before you wire
  • Team-retention signals catch key-person risk early
  • GenAI detection is increasingly relevant to AI-era diligence

Cons

  • Requires founder cooperation to grant repo access
  • Deep-tech edge cases still need a specialist human review

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