Anaconda, the Austin-based maker of tools for data scientists and enterprise AI, announced on Thursday that it has acquired Kilo Code, an agentic engineering platform that lets developers run AI agents across IDEs and the cloud. The deal pulls Kilo’s model routing and agent orchestration into Anaconda’s stack and, company leaders say, is meant to give businesses tighter grip on token spend and policy enforcement. It is the latest in a run of product launches and strategic buys as Anaconda tries to offer one end-to-end system that carries projects from experimentation all the way into production.
Anaconda laid out the move in a July 15 company blog post announcing the acquisition, noting that Kilo will stay available to individual builders even as it is woven into Anaconda’s enterprise lineup. In that post, CEO David DeSanto cast the purchase as a deliberate next step in closing the gap between fast-moving developers and slower-moving corporate governance, Anaconda said.
What Kilo Does
Kilo describes itself as an open-source agentic engineering platform that routes each task to the right model, tracks prompts and context, and plugs directly into IDEs like VS Code and JetBrains. On its site, the company lists more than 3 million users and tens of trillions of tokens processed, while calling out features such as a gateway with "zero markup," always-on cloud agents, and full auditability for prompts and context. Kilo says those pieces are meant to let teams run agents without getting locked into any single vendor.
A Growth Play After Big Funding
The Kilo deal follows Anaconda’s $150 million Series C last year, as the company shifted from being known mainly for Python package distribution to building a broader AI-native platform, according to a Business Wire release. That round was widely reported to value Anaconda at roughly $1.5 billion at the time. Kilo is also part of a wider buying spree. In April, Anaconda picked up Outerbounds, the team behind the Metaflow orchestration framework, as it worked to bring production orchestration and dependency governance into a single environment, The New Stack reported.
Why Austin Cares
For Austin’s tech scene, this is another hometown player bulking up in place rather than shipping jobs elsewhere. Local coverage noted that the transaction came together fast. The Austin Business Journal reports the acquisition "moved quickly" and "took about 45 days to complete," and quotes Anaconda’s CEO saying the company’s valuation has since climbed to "over $2 billion." That internal view sits next to earlier reports that last summer’s Series C priced the company at about $1.5 billion. Either way, the deal keeps Anaconda’s buying, product work and hiring momentum anchored in Austin.
What’s Next
Anaconda and Kilo say they will fold Kilo’s model routing, agent orchestration and cost-management tools into the Anaconda Platform over the coming months, while keeping Kilo’s codebase open-source for the wider community. The joint product roadmap is pitched as giving enterprise teams a single pane of glass to track agent activity, enforce policy and fine-tune model spend, a combination Anaconda is betting will appeal to regulated customers that need both speed and guardrails. Kilo and Anaconda are inviting customers to sign up for updates as the integration rolls out.
