Blacksmith, which speeds up CI for the AI coding era, raises $66M at a $1B valuation
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Blacksmith, which makes CI test runs faster as AI coding agents write more code, raised a $66 million Series C led by Sequoia at a $1 billion valuation. It says it now runs about 90 million CI jobs a week for more than 10,000 companies and will use the money to grow its team and compute capacity.
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