# Factory AI — Factory raises $200M at $5B valuation

- Company: Factory AI (factory.com)
- Announced: 2026-09-15
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: 9 outlets
- Announcement: yes
- Group: covered
- Source: https://factory.com/news/5-billion-valuation
- Record: https://forck.live/items/17811-factory-raises-200m-at-5b-valuation
- Subject: Droid

Factory has raised $200M at a $5B valuation to scale self-improving software development in the enterprise. This financing from Blackstone, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Insight Partners, Evantic Capital, Sound Ventures, NEA, Mantis VC, and Clearlake brings our total funding to over $400 million. We will use this capital to accelerate our investments in research, product, and global go-to-market. We founded Factory in 2023 with the mission to bring autonomy to software engineering and create a world where software builds and improves itself. Factory is used by hundreds of thousands of developers in the world’s most important businesses. Today Nvidia, Blackstone, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), Palo Alto Networks, Adobe, and T-Mobile are building self-improving software factories they can control, trust, and measure with Factory. Rather than stitching together fragmented tools and standalone agents, teams using Factory govern a single, trusted system across the entire software development lifecycle. …

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- Reuters: https://reuters.com/business/ai-coding-agent-startup-factory-triples-valuation-5-billion-latest-funding-round-2026-09-15
- The Wall Street Journal: https://wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-coding-startup-factory-more-than-triples-valuation-to-5-billion-871da697
- SiliconANGLE — Factory raises $200M for its self-improving software development platform: https://siliconangle.com/2026/09/15/factory-raises-200m-for-its-self-improving-software-development-platform
- Economic Times — AI coding agent startup Factory triples valuation to $5 billion in latest funding round: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/ai-coding-agent-startup-factory-triples-valuation-to-5-billion-in-latest-funding-round/articleshow/134272236.cms
- Morningstar: https://morningstar.com/news/dow-jones/202609155753/ai-software-developer-factory-gets-200-million-in-financing-round
- Ventureburn — Factory Raises $200M at $5B Valuation to Scale AI Software Development: https://ventureburn.com/factory-raises-200m-ai-software
- WOWTALE — Factory Raises $200M at $5B Valuation, Tripling in Five Months: https://en.wowtale.net/2026/09/16/235137
- Devops: https://devops.com/factory-raises-200m-as-it-builds-agents-across-the-software-lifecycle
- RuntimeWire — Factory raises $200M at $5B five months after its last round: https://runtimewire.com/article/factory-raises-200m-5b-valuation-enterprise-ai-coding

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