Former Pivotal Software colleagues raise $4.7M for Seattle code remediation startup Moderne June 23, 2021 at 4:32 pm Moderne co-founders Olga Kundzich and Jonathan Schneider. (Moderne Photos) New funding: Moderne landed $4.7 million for its software that helps developers save time by automating code migration and fixes. The Seattle-based company was founded by Olga Kundzich and Jonathan Schneider, former colleagues at Pivotal Software, which was acquired by VMware in 2019. The tech: The software is based on OpenRewrite, a large-scale automated refactoring tool for code that Schneider developed during a stint at Netflix. Refactoring is a term used in software development that describes the process of restructuring code while preserving existing functionality.