AI Startup Blitzy Raises $200M at $1.4B Valuation, Competes with Claude Code and Codex
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Sofia Chierchio
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Blitzy, an AI coding startup founded by Harvard Business School friends Brian Elliott and Sid Pardeshi, has raised $200 million in fresh funding at a $1.4 billion valuation. The company's AI platform can autonomously build entire software systems, compressing months of development work into weekends. The idea was sparked when the founders used ChatGPT and multiple AI models to build a bakery ordering app in a single weekend, a project the bakery had planned to spend $300,000 and six months on. Blitzy is now competing with other AI coding tools like Claude Code and Codex, convincing enterprises to hand over software development to AI.
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They built the app in a single weekend. That was the spark that led them to start AI coding company Blitzy.
Backed by $200 million in fresh funding, Blitzy has convinced companies to hand off software development to AI that can build entire systems autonomously, turning months of work into weekend projects.
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