Factory has officially announced the launch of Droids—innovative software development agents that have achieved the prestigious #1 ranking on Terminal Bench, a rigorous benchmarking standard recognized by industry-leading tools such as Claude Code and Cursor. This advancement coincides with a successful $50 million Series B funding round, which attracted a consortium of investors, including renowned venture capital firms such as NEA and Sequoia Capital, tech giant NVIDIA, and financial powerhouse J.P. Morgan. Notable angel investors, including Frank Slootman, Nikesh Arora, and Aaron Levie, have also joined this funding round, underscoring their confidence in Factory’s vision.
In a significant departure from traditional AI coding platforms that limit developers to a single choice of integrated development environment (IDE), language model (LLM), agent, or interface, Factory is breaking new ground by offering unprecedented flexibility. The platform is setting a new standard by being LLM-agnostic, IDE-agnostic, remote/local-agnostic, and interface-agnostic. Developers have the freedom to delegate tasks to Droids across various environments, including the Terminal, popular IDEs, collaboration tools like Slack, task management platforms such as Linear, or even through web browsers.
To enable further customization, developers can utilize a feature known as headless mode, allowing them to create scripts or triggers for developing fully tailored Droids that meet specific workflows. This adaptability is crucial for those aiming to adopt an agent-native approach, as they require agents that integrate seamlessly into their existing processes. The versatility of Droids enhances productivity and facilitates a smooth transition into an agent-native development landscape.
At the organizational level, Factory is advancing integration by connecting with the entire engineering stack. This includes compatibility with essential tools like GitHub for version control, Slack for team communication, Jira for project management, Datadog and Sentry for monitoring and error tracking, as well as Google Drive for collaboration on documents and files. By leveraging this comprehensive organizational context, Droids can onboard in a manner similar to seasoned human engineers, creating a “mental model” based on extensive historical coding knowledge. This proficiency enables Droids to understand and interact with the code in both intuitive and effective ways.
Leading engineers from top organizations and partners—such as Ernst & Young, NVIDIA, MongoDB, Zapier, Bayer, and Clari—are harnessing the power of Factory to streamline and accelerate various tasks across the entire software development lifecycle, going beyond just coding.
Factory’s Droids are making significant impacts in several key areas, including simplifying the transition and restructuring of codebases through migrations and refactors, enhancing the speed and efficiency of delivering new features, providing real-time answers and insights about the codebase, assisting in code review to evaluate quality and adherence to standards, contributing to the creation and maintenance of up-to-date documentation, and streamlining procedures for responding to incidents.
Customers who have integrated Factory into their workflows report remarkable outcomes, including feature delivery 31 times faster than before, a staggering 96.1% reduction in migration times, and a 95.8% decrease in on-call resolution times. Many have noted improvements in code quality, allowing developers to concentrate more on critical aspects of design and architecture. By meeting engineers where they already work and alleviating the complexities of running agents, Factory is making the shift to agent-native development both achievable and efficient.
With the new funding, Factory is well-positioned to significantly expand its product capabilities, enhance adoption across enterprises, and continue building a team of top-tier talent in engineering, research, and go-to-market strategies. And this growth will enable Factory to refine its offerings and better serve the evolving needs of developers and organizations in an increasingly complex software landscape.
KEY QUOTES:
“Agent‑native development presents the most substantive shift in software development since the move to the cloud. At Factory, we’re bringing that transition to every developer—starting with Droids in the CLI —so teams can evolve their behavior without rewriting their entire workflow. Agents will not replace developers, but developers who are fluent with agents will rapidly outleverage and outpace developers who are not.”
Matan Grinberg, co-founder and CEO of Factory
“Factory is demonstrating what no other agentic coding platform has: that enterprises will adopt and scale this technology when it delivers real value. We believe their ability to combine enterprise adoption with scalable unit economics strongly positions them to lead and define the future with an entirely new category of agent-native development.”
Madison Faulkner, Partner at NEA
