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Blacksmith raised a $66 million Series C led by Sequoia Capital at a $1 billion valuation.
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- https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/21/blacksmith-hits-unicorn-valuation-after-sequoia-leads-series-c
- https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/21/code-testing-startup-blacksmith-becomes-a-unicorn-after-raising-66m-in-series-c-funding
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- ConfirmedBlacksmith's Series B of $45 million, raised two months earlier, valued the company at $550 million.
- ConfirmedBlacksmith has raised $125 million in total.
- ConfirmedBlacksmith says its annual recurring revenue has grown 17-fold.
- UnconfirmedBlacksmith says more than 10,000 companies now use its platform, up from about 5,000 in August.
- UnconfirmedBlacksmith's 90 million code checks are a weekly rate, as SiliconANGLE describes them.
- UnconfirmedBlacksmith's CI workload rose more than 40% in one day when Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 in July, per the CEO.
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