What happens to the codebase when we hire our own team?

Source code and IP are yours from commit one. When you raise your Series A or build an internal engineering team, we hand over cleanly: codebase walkthrough sessions, architecture documentation, runbook for production operations, and a 30 to 60 day overlap period where our engineers pair with your new hires. About 40 percent of the startups we have worked with eventually built internal teams; we structured the handover for all of them without drama. The opposite also happens: founders stay with us through Series B because the relationship works.