[2][3][4][5] Warp was founded in June 2020 by Zach Lloyd, former Principal Engineer at Google and interim CTO at TIME.
[6] Lloyd and an early engineering team decided to develop Warp as a modern version of the command line terminal.
[9][10][11] In June 2023, Warp announced a $50 million Series B funding round led by Sequoia Capital.
[4][12] Notable angel investors include Sam Altman, Marc Benioff, Jeff Weiner, and Elad Gil.
[2][13] In February 2024, Warp was officially released for Linux, sharing almost 98% of the underlying codebase with its macOS version.