Blacksmith raises $45M Series B led by Peak XV

Blacksmith@useblacksmithAug 12, 2026

We raised a $45M Series B led by Peak XV, with YC and GV tripling down. Blacksmith is now valued at $550M. We closed this back in March. CI volume is up 5-10% every week as codegen makes writing code easy and validating it the bottleneck. 6,000+ companies run CI on us. What's https://t.co/ybIIo7sGI4

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