Funding Alert｜Blacksmith Raises $66M Series C, Doubling Its Valuation to $1B in Two Months
Blacksmith raised a $66M Series C led by Sequoia Capital at a $1B valuation, just two months after its last round. The signal: as Cursor, Claude, and Codex make writing code "extremely easy," the bottleneck has shifted to validating it — Blacksmith's ARR grew 17x in a year and its CI job volume grew 18x, proof that this new bottleneck is already being priced.