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Blacksmith's valuation surge highlights a critical infrastructure shift where dedicated CI clouds are becoming essential bottlenecks as AI coding assistants accelerate code generation but leave testing latency as the primary constraint. By offloading automated build and verification tasks to its own global server fleet, the startup directly addresses the productivity gap created by modern AI-assisted development workflows. This funding validates the growing market need for specialized hardware and software stacks that optimize the post-generation phase of the software lifecycle.

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Code testing startup Blacksmith becomes a unicorn after raising $66M in Series C funding

SiliconANGLEOctober 22, 20265 min read

Blacksmith Software Inc., a continuous integration cloud startup that helps companies to test and verify new code before they ship it into production, says it’s now valued at $1 billion after closing on a $66 million Series C round of funding today. The round was led by Sequoia Capital and saw participation from Peak XV […] The post Code testing startup Blacksmith becomes a unicorn after raising $66M in Series C funding appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Blacksmith Software Inc., a continuous integration cloud startup that helps companies to test and verify new code before they ship it into production, says it’s now valued at $1 billion after closing on a $66 million Series C round of funding today. The round was led by Sequoia Capital and saw participation from Peak XV Partners, Y Combinator and GV, and brings Blacksmith’s total amount raised so far to $125 million. It comes just two months after it raised $45 million in a Series B round led by Peak XV. Prior to that, it…

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