Blacksmith raises $66M to keep AI-written code moving through CI
Sequoia led the round at a reported $1B valuation, about ten weeks after Blacksmith's $550M Series B. CEO Aditya Jayaprakash founded the company on the bet that testing would constrain software delivery.
By RuntimeWire Staff · Published
Primary source: PR Newswire
Why it matters
Blacksmith is betting that AI coding will make build-and-test infrastructure a larger software cost center. Its rising job volume supports that demand story; undisclosed ARR and unelaborated savings benchmarks leave the business's economics harder to assess.
Blacksmith co-founder and CEO Aditya "JP" Jayaprakash has raised $66 million to expand the infrastructure that builds and tests software as coding agents increase the volume of changes engineers need to validate. The Series C, announced on October 21st, was led by Sequoia Capital at a reported $1 billion valuation.…
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