# Code Metal

> Code Metal is a Boston-based AI startup building a verifiable code translation platform for mission-critical industries - aerospace, defense, automotive, semiconductors and robotics. Founded in 2023 by AI researchers Peter Morales and Alex Showalter-Bucher, the company combines large language models with formal verification so engineers can write software once and ship it - safely - to any chip.

- **Founded:** 2023
- **Headquarters:** Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- **Founders:** Peter Morales (Co-founder & CEO), Alex Showalter-Bucher (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** ~66 employees
- **Products:** Verifiable Code Translation Platform, Edge Deployment Toolkit, Code Modernization Service
- **Notable:** Raised $177M+ total funding within ~3 years of founding, Series B led by Salesforce Ventures with participation from Accel (Feb 2026), Built a customer base across Boeing, Bosch, NVIDIA, L3Harris, Raytheon and Collins Aerospace

## Products & services

- **Verifiable Code Translation Platform** — AI-driven platform that translates code across languages (C++, Python, VHDL, CUDA, OpenCL, Rust, MISRA C, MATLAB M-files) and verifies the output with formal methods and automated test generation.
- **Edge Deployment Toolkit** — Automates porting of high-level code to edge hardware including FPGAs, GPUs, microcontrollers and custom accelerators.
- **Code Modernization Service** — Translates legacy codebases into modern, maintainable, hardware-portable equivalents while preserving behavior under formal verification.

## Achievements

- Raised $177M+ total funding within ~3 years of founding
- Series B led by Salesforce Ventures with participation from Accel (Feb 2026)
- Built a customer base across Boeing, Bosch, NVIDIA, L3Harris, Raytheon and Collins Aerospace
- Pioneered combining LLM-based code generation with formal verification for safety-critical software

## Latest updates

- **2026-02** — Closed $125M Series B led by Salesforce Ventures.
- **2025-11** — Raised $36.5M Series A led by Accel.
- **2024-07** — Public launch and $13M seed round led by Shield Capital.

## Links

- Website: https://codemetal.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/code-metal

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Last updated: 2026-05-19