AI ProgrammingThe field has become a hot commodity in the eyes of investors!
Not long ago, AI code generation startup Cursor successfully obtained $60 million in Series A funding.FinancingAfter that, now there is another AI programming companyCodeiumReceived $150 million in financing.
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Codeium just announced a super strong round of funding, raising $150 million, bringing its valuation to over $1.25 billion, making it a unicorn company!
The round, led by General Catalyst with participation from existing investors Kleiner Perkins and Greenoaks, marks a huge leap for Codeium in its less than two years since its founding.
“The future of coding isn’t just about writing code faster, it’s about empowering developers to think better, push boundaries, and achieve extraordinary results,” said Varun Mohan, CEO of Codeium. “This new funding will enable Codeium to further empower developers to realize their ideas, giving them the freedom to innovate and turn challenges into opportunities for growth.”
Codeium's platform uses its self-developed code big model to simplify the software development process and improve developer productivity. With this round of financing, Codeium plans to accelerate the development of new features, expand its product line, and increase team staff.
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700,000 users, annual revenue growth of 500%
Since its inception, Codeium has experienced significant growth.The company's team currently has 80 employees and more than 700,000 active users.
Codeium's enterprise product annual recurring revenue reached eight figures in 2024 and its annual revenue growth exceeded 500%. Currently, Codeium processes more than 100 billion tokens per day and has been used in production workflows of large companies such as Zillow, Dell and Anduril.
Codeium proactively removes "non-permissive" licensed code, such as copyrighted code, from the datasets used to train its AI models. This move addresses a common problem with some code generation tools, which is that when training with restricted licenses or copyrighted code, the code may be inadvertently copied, creating potential legal risks for developers. According to Mohan, Codeium avoids this problem by carefully preparing and filtering training data.
Recently, Codeium also launched two technologies, Cortex and Forge. The former is an AI-driven reasoning engine that helps manage complex coding tasks, and the latter is an AI-assisted tool that enhances code review efficiency.
Investment is trending towards AI programming
It is worth mentioning that the recent investment trend seems to be towards the field of AI programming. For example, as AIbase reported not long ago, Cursor successfully obtained $60 million in Series A financing, with investors including well-known venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz and Thrive Capital, as well as artificial intelligence pioneer OpenAI.
The platform helps developers complete tasks efficiently by developing advanced "next edit prediction models", retrieval systems for billions of files, and fast code rewriting technology. Currently, Cursor has attracted more than 30,000 users, including large enterprises, well-known research institutions, and various start-ups.
In addition to Cursor and Codeium, another AI coding assistant platform Magic completes $320 million round of financing, with participants including Eric Schmidt, Atlassian, Jane Street and Sequoia.