Blacksmith Raises $66M Series C Led by Sequoia at $1B Valuation

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Blacksmith, an AI code validation platform, announced a $66 million Series C funding round led by Sequoia Capital, reaching a $1 billion valuation. The company addresses the challenges of continuous integration (CI) in the era of AI-generated code by automating build, test, and validation processes to ensure software reliability.

LATEST/Blacksmith, an AI code validation platform, announced a $66 million Series C funding round led by Sequoia Capital, reaching a $1 billion valuation. The company addresses the challenges of continuous integration (CI) in the era of AI-generated code by automating build, test, and validation processes to ensure software reliability.

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TechCrunch AIT2·Oct 22, 01:1868 pts
Blacksmith Raises $66M Series C Led by Sequoia at $1B Valuation
- Blacksmith raised $66M in Series C, hitting a $1B unicorn valuation with $125M total raised.
- The platform targets the bottleneck of validating AI-generated code within traditional Continuous Integration workflows.
- Valuation surged from $60M to $1B in one year, signaling rapid growth in the AI-native dev tooling sector.
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