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Funding and backers

Total raised
$22M
14 rounds on record
Latest round
Venture round
Aug 2026 · 2 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Backers
3
Albion, Oxford Science Enterprises
The money's age
Fresh money
2 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
20/100
fresh money
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Aug 6 Raised a round Venture round Nov 11, 2025 Raised a round Venture round May 23, 2025 Raised a round Venture round Nov 18, 2024 Launched Diffblue Launches New Developer Edition for Individuals and Small Teams · FinanzNachrichten.de Oct 25, 2024 Raised a round Venture round Nov 22, 2023 Raised a round Venture round Mar 27, 2023 Raised a round Venture round May 17, 2022 Raised a round Venture round Jan 24, 2022 Raised a round Venture round Jul 27, 2020 Raised a round Venture round Mar 16, 2020 Raised a round Venture round Nov 8, 2019 Raised a round Venture round Dec 12, 2018 Raised a round Venture round Jun 27, 2017 Raised a round Series A $22M · TechCrunch Jun 22, 2017 Raised a round Venture round 2016 Founded
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Web presence
top 0.31%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
GitHub stars
42 public repositories
Hacker News stories
8
best: 5 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Aug 2026 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Venture round Nov 2025 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Venture round May 2025 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Venture round Oct 2024 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Venture round Nov 2023 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Venture round Mar 2023 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Venture round May 2022 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Venture round Jan 2022 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Venture round Jul 2020 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Venture round Mar 2020 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Venture round Nov 2019 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Venture round Dec 2018 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Series A Jun 2017 $22M — TechCrunch
Venture round Jun 2017 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity Diffblue Limited its site
Registered 19 Jan 2016
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Overview

Diffblue automatically writes unit tests for Java code using reinforcement learning rather than generative language models. Founded in 2016 as a University of Oxford spin-out, its Cover product generates tests that compile and pass on the first run. Large banks and enterprises use it to raise coverage on legacy codebases.

News

News FinanzNachrichten.de 11 months ago
Diffblue's Latest Innovations in Unit Test Generation Deliver 20x Productivity Advantage Versus AI Coding Assistants
New benchmark study confirms Diffblue's advantages over LLM coding assistants realized through its reinforcement learning-powered agentic capabilities Diffblue today announced the release of the next
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News FinanzNachrichten.de 2 years ago
Diffblue Launches New Developer Edition for Individuals and Small Teams
Newest release of Diffblue Cover for Java professionals empowers individual developers and small teams to level-up their code with AI-powered unit testing Diffblue, creators of the world's first
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News SiliconANGLE 2 years ago
Diffblue raises $6.3M for autonomous AI-powered test generation platform
Diffblue raises $6.3M for autonomous AI-powered test generation platform - SiliconANGLE
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News FinanzNachrichten.de 2 years ago
Diffblue Secures $6.3 Million in New Funding Amidst 3x Growth Period
New capital, customers and CEO to fuel explosive momentum for generative AI-for-code market innovator Diffblue, creators of the world's first fully autonomous generative AI-for-code software, today
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News diffblue.com 2 years ago
Announcing Diffblue Cover Support for GitHub Actions - Diffblue
Announcement - Diffblue Cover now integrates directly into your GitHub Actions workflow to autonomously write and update Java unit tests for your projects.
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News diffblue.com 2 years ago
Community Edition (Download) - Diffblue
Download Diffblue Cover Community Edition's free IntelliJ plugin here.
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Oxford United Kingdom
HQ
50-200 est. staff

Financials

Total raised
$22M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
14
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
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Series A 2017 $22M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2017 — Details