Blacksmith 获红杉领投 6600 万美元 C 轮融资，估值达 10 亿美元
Blacksmith hits unicorn valuation after Sequoia leads Series C
- 1Blacksmith 宣布 6600 万美元 C 轮融资，由红杉领投，公司估值达 10 亿美元
- 2公司称年经常性收入增长 17 倍，已运行超 9000 万个 CI 自动代码检查任务，客户有 Mercury 和 Granola
- 3此轮融资距其 4500 万美元 B 轮仅两个月，当时估值 5.5 亿美元；公司累计融资 1.25 亿美元
- 4CEO 称创立公司是为了让持续集成（构建、测试、合并和验证代码变更）更不痛苦，AI 大量写代码加剧了企业 CI 运行量负担
AI 生成代码让验证环节成为新的成本瓶颈，资本两个月内把一家 CI 平台估值从 5.5 亿美元推高到 10 亿美元。
- 影响：对已用 AI 生成代码的团队，代码构建与测试的吞吐和费用会变成显性预算项；开发者工具赛道的融资节奏和估值涨幅明显加快；企业引入 AI 编码的隐性开销正集中到验证环节。
- 参考：可先测算本团队 AI 生成代码在 CI 任务中的占比与耗时；值得把现有 CI 供应商的吞吐上限和报价列成清单，作为是否评估新平台的基准。
- 依据：融资金额、估值变化和收入增长均出自公司公告与 CEO 博客，属官方口径，由 TechCrunch 转述，暂无独立验证。
In Brief
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10:18 AM PDT · October 21, 2026
Blacksmith, a platform that helps companies more efficiently build and test software, including code written by AI, announced Wednesday a $66 million Series C funding round led by Sequoia that values the company at $1 billion.
In announcing the round, Blacksmith co-founder and CEO Aditya Jayaprakash said the company was founded to make continuous integration (CI) — the process of building, testing, merging, and validating code changes — “less painful.” In a blog post, he said that “most companies are struggling to keep up with the volume of CI they need to run,” especially in an era where so much code is written by AI.
“As agents write more of the world’s software, the question that matters is whether it can be trusted,” he added.
The company also announced that its annual recurring revenue has grown 17x and that it has run over 90 million CI jobs, or individual automated code checks. Customers include Mercury and Granola.
The Series C comes just two months after its $45 million Series B, which valued the company at $550 million. A year ago, Blacksmith was valued at $60 million after raising a $10 million Series A. It has raised $125 million to date.
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