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Makes Droids, AI coding agents that take a task written in plain language and plan, write and test the change and open the pull request, sold to developers and to enterprise engineering teams in the cloud, on-premises or air-gapped.

Total funding$400M

Valuation$5B

Employees—

Founded2023

HeadquartersSan Francisco, USA

StatusPrivate

Product

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• Factory Droids AI agent Sold on its own

  AI coding agents that take a task written in plain language, plan the change, edit code across the repository, run tests and open a pull request, working from a terminal, IDE, browser or Slack.

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Sources

Total funding

Press release · 15 Sep 2026

Factory's own post, 2026-09-15: the financing "brings our total funding to over $400 million." Stated as "over"; the figure is that floor.

Valuation

Press release · 15 Sep 2026

"Factory has raised $200M at a $5B valuation to scale self-improving software development in the enterprise" (2026-09-15), from Blackstone, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Insight Partners and others; SiliconANGLE reported the round the same day.

Employees

Not found · 27 Sep 2026

No current headcount on /company or in the funding post; SiliconANGLE (2026-09-15) reports only a plan to reach 300 employees by year end.

Founded

Press release · 15 Sep 2026

"We founded Factory in 2023 with the mission to bring autonomy to software engineering".

Revenue

Not found · 27 Sep 2026

No revenue figure in the company's funding post or SiliconANGLE's report of it.

Public listing

Press release · 27 Sep 2026

Venture-funded private company (2026-09-15 round); no public listing found.

Description

Official documentation · 27 Sep 2026

"Give Droids a task in natural language and they plan, write, test, and ship code. Works in your terminal, IDE, browser, or Slack."

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