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Stage

Code review platform for today’s engineers

Teams are shipping faster than ever with AI, but engineers are merging changes that neither they nor their reviewers fully understand, leading to bugs in production and overwhelming cognitive debt. Stage is a new code review platform built for today’s fast moving teams. Instead of forcing readers to piece things together from unorganized diffs, Stage breaks changes down into structured chapters so teams can understand what's happening and ship with confidence.
Active Founders
Charles Pan
Charles Pan
Founder
Co-founder and CEO of Stage. Prev. developer at Five Rings, early engineer at Yuzu Health. Seeing how fragmented the code review process was becoming at both a large company and a small startup led me to work on Stage. Studied CS at Stanford, member of the varsity fencing team.
Dean Stratakos
Dean Stratakos
Founder
Co-founder and CTO of Stage. Studied CS at Stanford while competing as a Division I tennis player. At Five Rings, a quant trading firm in NYC, I led the firm’s AI push and built an in-house coding agent, which inspired me to work on developer tooling at Stage.
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Stage
Founded:2026
Batch:Spring 2026
Team Size:2
Status:
Active
Primary Partner:Pete Koomen