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Peak XV leads $45 mn Series B in US AI startup Blacksmith at $550 mn valuation
Peak XV leads $45 mn Series B in US AI startup Blacksmith at $550 mn valuation
Peak XV Partners has led a $45 mn Series B funding round in San Francisco-based AI code testing startup Blacksmith, valuing the company at $550 mn. Existing investors Google Ventures and Y…
The Story in Brief
Peak XV Partners has led a $45 mn Series B funding round in San Francisco-based AI code testing startup Blacksmith, valuing the company at $550 mn. Existing investors Google Ventures and Y Combinator also participated in the round, which closed in March 2026 but was announced now. The startup has raised $58.5 mn in total to date.
Blacksmith plans to use the capital to expand its computing infrastructure amid rising demand for tools that validate AI-generated code. It claims its cloud infrastructure can run workloads twice as fast as GitHub-hosted runners at 50-75% lower cost. The company, founded in 2024, now serves over 6,000 firms including Supabase and Clerk. Peak XV is expanding in the US, opening a San Francisco office and backing AI startups like Vapi and Mem0.
The Indian Opinion
The Blacksmith investment is a reminder that the AI gold rush has many pick-and-shovel plays beyond flashy chatbots. Peak XV’s US push, post-Sequoia split, is real but must be measured against the risk of backing high-burn startups in a capital-scarce global environment. The real test will be whether Blacksmith’s promise of 50-75% lower costs holds as competition from GitHub Actions and CircleCI heats up.
Source: inc42.com
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