Tipi technologies becomes part of EngFlow

(CONNECT) Tipi technologies has been taken over by EngFlow. According to a press release issued by both companies, this will ensure that the benefits of their respective technologies can be combined in CMake. This is a cross-platform programming tool for developing and building software that has become the de facto standard for coding in the C++ programming language. According to its co-founder Damien Buhl, the Tipi brand and team are going nowhere: “We are creating new jobs by bringing on board additional C++ experts both here in Zurich and around the world”.

Headquartered in Austin in the US State of Texas, EngFlow is a “leading” company in the acceleration of software development and build processes. It was founded by engineers that worked on the development of the open source Bazel project.  

According to information from the company itself, tipi technologies, a Zurich-based start-up founded in 2021, is developing the Artificial Intelligence-based Compiler-as-a-Service called tipi.build, which understands the C and C++ programming languages ​​and builds software without scripts “at unprecedented speeds”. With tipi, developers can instantly test and build across platforms and seamlessly add cloud CPU cores as needed.

By combining their respective technologies, tipi and EngFlow will reportedly bring “all the benefits of Bazel remote execution and caching to CMake without requiring disruptive build system migrations”.

In 2022, EngFlow led tipi’s seed investment round. Since then, the two companies have been working together on a CMake Remote Build (CMake RE) execution solution for the C and C++ community. Moreover, they recently developed HermeticFetchContent, which, as EngFlow CEO Helen Altshuler explains, makes the CMake RE build features “all the more accessible”. ce/mm