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TechCrunch · THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 2026
Factory reaches $1.5B valuation to automate the enterprise software engineers writing enterprise software
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The engineers will be assisted by a system they did not build, valued at more than the teams it is assisting. The spreadsheet is inconclusive.
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