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Blackbox

BLACKBOX.AI sells a multi-agent coding platform to individual developers and engineering teams, delivered via a VS Code extension, CLI, web app, and API that orchestrate third-party models alongside its own.

blackbox.ai · San Francisco

CALL NO.CS·BLACKBOX·26
StageReported financingno source in ledger[7]
Raisednot publicly disclosedno source in ledger
Headcount101sources disagree, see below[2][3][5]
Valuationnot publicly disclosedno source in ledger
Founded2018[1][2][5]
Money

Reported financing.[7]

post-money valuation and the full investor list are not publicly disclosed.

People

Richard Rizk, Co-Founder & CTO[1][2][4]

Roger Rizk, Co-Founder & COO[1][2][4]

Joshua Abrigale, Technical Vice President[1][2][4]

Vanessa Hankache, Marketing Manager[1][2][4]

Headcount: sources disagree
101as of May 2026

Roger Rizk – Co-Founder & COO, BLACKBOX.AI · Jun 2026[2]

Tom Carlson – Principal Member of Technical Staff, BLACKBOX.AI · Jun 2026[3]

org_enrichment – BLACKBOX.AI · Jun 2026[5]

Signals
May 27 2026otherHeadcount declining: -5.7% YoY (101 employees as of mid-2026 vs 111 prior year)[2][3]
May 1 2026otherWeb traffic declining: 5.07M monthly visits in May 2026, down 66.2% year-over-year company claim, not independently confirmed[1]
Apr 22 2026newsKimi K2.6 (Moonshot AI) integrated across CLI, VS Code, and Remote Agent company claim, not independently confirmed[1]
Apr 14 2026launch/auto command launched: automatically delegates tasks to Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, or Blackbox based on task type company claim, not independently confirmed[1]
Feb 24 2026launchClaudex Mode launched: Claude Code and OpenAI Codex run as a unified workflow inside Blackbox company claim, not independently confirmed[1]
Feb 3 2026launchVercel Integration Partner announced; Blackbox CLI powers Vercel Sandbox GA company claim, not independently confirmed[1]
Comps

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Risk

The customer proof is company-sourced only. No independent source in this ledger confirms it.[1]

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Blackbox

CALL NO.CS·BLACKBOX·26

BLACKBOX.AI sells a multi-agent coding platform to individual developers and engineering teams, delivered via a VS Code extension, CLI, web app, and API that orchestrate third-party models alongside its own.

blackbox.ai · San Francisco

StageReported financing
Raisednot publicly disclosed
Headcount101
Valuationnot publicly disclosed
Founded2018
Compsnone named by a source

Ask for one referenceable production customer.

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