Blacksmith hits unicorn valuation after Sequoia leads Series C
In Brief Posted: 10:18 AM PDT · October 21, 2026 Image Credits:Blacksmith Dominic-Madori Davis Blacksmith hits unicorn valuation after Sequoia leads Series C Blacksmith, a platform that helps companies more efficiently build and test software, including code written by AI, announced Wednesday a $66…
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In Brief Posted: 10:18 AM PDT · October 21, 2026 Image Credits:Blacksmith Dominic-Madori Davis Blacksmith hits unicorn valuation after Sequoia leads Series C Blacksmith, a platform that helps companies more efficiently build and test software, including code written by AI, announced Wednesday a $66 million Series C funding round led by Sequoia that values the company at $1 billion. In announcing the round, Blacksmith co-founder and CEO Aditya Jayaprakash said the company was founded to make continuous integration (CI) — the process of building, testing, merging, and validating code changes — “less painful.” In a blog post, he said that “most companies are struggling to keep up with the volume of CI they need to run,” especially in an era where so much code is written by AI. “As agents write more of the world’s software, the question that matters is whether it can be trusted,” he added. The company also announced that its annual recurring revenue has grown 17x and that it has run over 90 million CI jobs, or individual automated code checks. Customers include Mercury and Granola. The Series C comes just two months after its $45 million Series B, which valued the company at $550 million. A year ago, Blacksmith was valued at $60 million after raising a $10 million Series A. It has raised $125 million to date. Topics AI, Blacksmith, In Brief, Sequoia, Startups, unicorn, Venture November 4 Boston Buy One Pass, Get a Second FreeCover more ground at TechCrunch’s ultimate founder bootcamp of the year by bringing your co-founder or partner for freeBook before the BOGO deal expires Register Now Newsletters See More Subscribe for the industry’s biggest tech news Related AI Meta says Muse has over 10M users, with shopping a top activity Sarah Perez 8 hours ago AI While Amazon blocks AI agents, Walmart rolls out the welcome mat Sarah Perez 10 hours ago Robotics Ex-Nvidia-turned-VC Amulya Vishwanath: ‘Physical AI is in its LEGO era’ Dominic-Madori Davis 2 days ago Latest in Venture TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026: Everything you need to know TechCrunch Events 8 hours ago In Brief Legal AI startup Legora raises $550M Series E at $8.8B valuation Dominic-Madori Davis 10 hours ago In Brief Blacksmith hits unicorn valuation after Sequoia leads Series C Dominic-Madori Davis 12 hours ago