Reflection AI, a New York-based AI startup focused on developing autonomous coding agents, has raised $130 million in funding.
Investors
This funding round includes a $105 million Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and CRV, along with a $25 million seed funding round led by Sequoia Capital and CRV. Additional investors include LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, SV Angel, and the VC arm of Nvidia Corp., bringing Reflection AI’s valuation to $555 million.
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations in the enterprise, consumer, fintech, and health sectors. With $25B in assets under management (AUM), it has backed over 500 companies globally, with teams across the U.S., Europe, India, Israel, and Southeast Asia.
CRV is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies in consumer tech, enterprise software, and fintech. The firm has also backed companies in other sectors, including life sciences. Since its founding in 1970, CRV has focused on supporting entrepreneurs and helping them build impactful products and services.
Sequoia Capital, headquartered in Menlo Park, California, specializes in seed-stage, early-stage, and growth-stage investments across technology sectors. The firm helps founders build legendary companies from inception to IPO and beyond.
Reflection AI Use of Funds
The company will use the funds to continue developing its AI-driven autonomous coding technology, hire top AI researchers and engineers, and advance reinforcement learning for software development.
About Reflection AI
Founded by Misha Laskin and Ioannis Antonoglou, Reflection AI is a company focused on building fully autonomous coding agents that integrate directly into an organization's codebase and engineering workflows. The company leverages reinforcement learning (RL) and large language models (LLMs) to create AI systems capable of writing, debugging, and optimizing code independently. Reflection AI serves customers in sectors such as financial services, technology, and other industries with large coding teams.
Funding Details
Company: Reflection AI, Inc.
Raised: $130.0M
Rounds: Series A, Seed
Funding Date: March 2025
Lead Investors: Lightspeed, Sequoia, CRV
Additional Investors: NVIDIA, Reid Hoffman, Alexandr Wang, SV Angel
Company Website: https://www.reflection.ai/
Software Category: Software Development, Autonomous Coding
Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-07/ex-deepmind-researchers-new-startup-aims-for-superintelligence