General Catalyst Leads $150 Million Series C in Codeium

<p><strong>MOUNTAIN VIEW<&sol;strong> &&num;8212&semi; Codeium&comma; an AI-powered code acceleration platform&comma; has secured &dollar;150 million in Series C funding&comma; raising the company&&num;8217&semi;s valuation to &dollar;1&period;25 billion and bringing the startup to Unicorn status in less than two years from inception&period; The round was led by General Catalyst&comma; with continued support from existing investors Kleiner Perkins and Greenoaks&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Every historical technological advancement has led to a steep change in developer possibility&period; AI is no different&period; Teams that leverage AI to empower their software development are going to build more&comma; build faster and with higher quality&period; AI tools often promise help but fall short&comma; offering fragmented&comma; subpar support that complicates rather than simplifies work&period; Codeium breaks this pattern&comma; delivering an AI-powered platform that transforms how developers work on complex codebases by making coding faster&comma; smarter&comma; and more intuitive&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;The future of coding isn’t just about writing lines of code faster—it&&num;8217&semi;s about enabling developers to think bigger&comma; push boundaries&comma; and achieve the extraordinary&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Varun Mohan&comma; CEO of Codeium&period; &&num;8220&semi;This fresh funding means we’re more equipped to help developers turn those &&num;8216&semi;what ifs&&num;8217&semi; into &&num;8216&semi;what’s next&comma;&&num;8217&semi; having the freedom to innovate without limits and turn challenges into opportunities for growth&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>With actionable learnings and requests from its large and rapidly expanding set of enterprise customers&comma; Codeium will use the fresh funds to accelerate the development of new features and products&comma; and contribute to company headcount growth&period; Codeium plans to invest heavily in research and development&comma; partnering with its customers to maximize their AI strategy&comma; and exploring new strategic partnerships that can broaden its reach and impact&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This comes on the heels of the company’s latest launch of technological breakthroughs&comma; including Cortex&comma; an advanced AI-powered reasoning engine that manages complex coding tasks with exceptional precision&comma; and Forge&comma; an AI-assisted code review that reduces code review cycle times and improves code review culture&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Codeium isn’t just an idea—it’s a fully scaling business with widespread enterprise adoption&period; Their genAI tools for software development are proving their worth in real production environments&comma; where reliability is key&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Quentin Clark&comma; Managing Director of General Catalyst&period; &&num;8220&semi;As we see it&comma; Codeium&&num;8217&semi;s customer-driven approach has led to solutions that work in any environment&comma; IDE&comma; or SCM&comma; with broader language support than anyone else&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The news comes at a pivotal time for the company and follows a period of rapid growth for Codeium&period; Over the past two years&comma; the company has assembled a team of 80 professionals and grown its user base to more than 700&comma;000 active developers&period; The enterprise product reached eight figures in annual recurring revenue&comma; with ARR growing by over 500&percnt; since early 2024&period; Codeium now processes more than 100 billion tokens daily&comma; and has been integrated into production workflows at companies like Zillow&comma; Dell&comma; and Anduril&comma; significantly boosting productivity&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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