Blacksmith raises $66M Series C at $1B valuation

Blacksmith, a platform for building and testing AI-written code, raised a $66M Series C led by Sequoia at a $1B valuation. ARR grew 17x and it has run over 90 million CI jobs; it was valued at $550M just two months ago.

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