TechCrunch News 02月20日
AI-coding startup Codeium in talks to raise at an almost $3B valuation, sources say
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AI编程初创公司Codeium在新一轮融资中估值达到28.5亿美元,由回归投资者Kleiner Perkins领投。此次融资距离其1.5亿美元C轮融资仅六个月,当时估值为12.5亿美元。Codeium年化经常性收入(ARR)约为3000万美元,估值倍数约为95倍ARR,远高于其他AI代码编辑公司。Codeium通过面向企业而非个人开发者来区别于竞争对手,其免费平台已被1000多家企业客户使用。公司还推出了Windsurfer Editor,具备自主编写代码的能力,采用了“代理模式”AI方法。

💰Codeium在新一轮融资中估值高达28.5亿美元,由Kleiner Perkins领投,显示了投资者对其增长潜力的强烈信心。

🏢Codeium专注于企业级市场,通过免费增值模式吸引了超过1000家企业客户,包括Anduril、Zillow和Dell等,这与竞争对手主要面向个人开发者有所不同。

🤖Codeium推出了Windsurfer Editor,该编辑器具有无需人工干预即可编写部分代码的“代理模式”AI功能,标志着其在AI编程领域的技术创新。

🆚Codeium的估值倍数(95倍ARR)远高于竞争对手Anysphere(25倍ARR),这可能源于投资者对其增长速度、市场定位或技术优势的更高预期。

Codeium, an AI-powered coding startup, is raising a new round of funding at a $2.85 billion valuation, including fresh capital, according to two sources with knowledge of the deal. 

The round is being led by a returning investor Kleiner Perkins, the people said.

The new round comes just six months after Silicon Valley-based Codeium announced that it had closed a $150 million Series C at a $1.25 billion post-money valuation led by General Catalyst with participation of Kleiner Perkins and Greenoaks.TechCrunch could not confirm the dollar amount of the new funding.

Codeium and Kleiner Perkins didn’t respond to a request for comment.

The company has reached about $30 million in annualized recurring revenue (ARR), one person said. Based on that revenue figure, Codeium’s implied valuation is roughly 95 times ARR. That’s a lot higher than other AI code editing companies.

Last month, Anysphere, the maker of AI-powered coding assistant Cursor, announced a new funding round of financing at a $2.5 billion valuation. Based on its reported $100 million in revenue, investors assigned it a 25 times ARR valuation multiple.

In addition to Anysphere, which many investors say is the current leader in the category, Codeium competes with Poolside, Magic, Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot and many others.

While it’s not clear how Codeuim negotiated such a rich valuation, sources told TechCrunch that the company wasn’t looking to raise new funds before investors approached it about this round.

Codeium tries to distinguish itself from competitors by targeting companies rather than individual developers. Last summer, the company told TechCrunch that the free tier of its platform was being used by over 1,000 enterprise customers, including Anduril, Zillow, and Dell.

In November, the company introduced Windsurfer Editor, which can write some of the code without human involvement, an approach that’s known as agentic AI, or “agent mode.” Others, such as Cursor, also offer a similar feature.

Codeium was founded in 2021 by Varun Mohan and his childhood friend and fellow MIT grad, Douglas Chen. Prior to Codeium, Chen was at Meta, where he helped to build software tools for VR headsets like the Oculus Quest. Mohan was a tech lead at Nuro, the autonomous delivery startup, responsible for managing the autonomy infrastructure team.

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