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Magic

AI coding assistant building a frontier model with ultra-long 100M+ token context windows for software engineering
AI 📍 San Francisco, CA Founded 2022
Current Valuation
$1.5B
as of 2024-Q3
UNICORN

IPO Outlookprivate

Is Magic going public?
No. Magic has no imminent IPO plans on record. It is still private.
What is Magic's valuation in 2026?
Magic is valued at $1.5B as of 2024-Q3, set by its Series B ($320M, Aug 2024). That is the last confirmed mark, not a live price — private shares do not trade continuously.
Has Magic filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for Magic.
Who are Magic's investors?
Magic's investors include Eric Schmidt, Jane Street, Sequoia, Atlassian, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross and 2 more.
Answers are derived from the roster record shown on this page — filing status, last round and confirmed marks. Where the record is silent, the answer says so rather than guessing.
Magic is building a frontier AI coding model with ultra-long context windows (100M+ tokens, claimed in research preview) to reason across entire codebases. Raised $320M Series B in Aug 2024 led personally by Eric Schmidt, with Sequoia and Jane Street. Partnered with Google Cloud for a custom training and inference cluster. Co-founder Eric Steinberger previously researched poker AI at FAIR.

Company Profile

CEO
Eric Steinberger
Founded
2022
HQ
San Francisco, CA
Employees
~50
Total Raised
$465M
Growth
Pre-revenue / research-stage
Last Round
Series B — $320M (Aug 2024) · Lead: Eric Schmidt (lead investor)
IPO Status
no imminent plans

Fundraising Status

Series B · $320M · 2y ago
no imminent plansTotal raised $465M

Secondary Market

Implied price / share
$79.88
Last round price / share
$110.82
vs last round
-27.9%
Open interest
1
Last round price vs secondary price
Last round vs current secondary price per share$111Last round$79.88Current
Secondary price return by period
Secondary market period returns3-month+6.5%6-month+1.4%1-year+1.4%All-time-0.1%
Implied per-share price from private secondary transactions, as of Jun 2026. This is a point estimate, not a quote — the feed carries no bid, ask or spread, and a secondary print is evidence of what someone paid on that date rather than a live market. Compare across every tracked name →

Latest Funding Round

RoundAmountDateLead InvestorPost-Money
Series B$320MAug 2024Eric Schmidt (lead investor)

Vertical Intelligence — AI / ML

No verified Hugging Face organization found for Magic — no attributable open-model footprint. Closed-weights labs are common; this is a distribution signal, not a capability judgment.
Checked huggingface.co as of 2026-08-19. Re-checked weekly.

Talent Signal

Hiring trend
First snapshot
trend accrues with monthly sweeps
Open roles
10
via ashby
Product-build share
50%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
steady
product-led hiring — 50% of open roles build product; the rest are go-to-market and G&A.
Actively hiring with no tracked executive churn.
Open roles by month
Open roles by month10Aug '26
Open roles by function
Open roles by functionOther5Research2Engineering2Security1
product-building   go-to-market / G&A
Research EngineerMember of Technical Staff, Supercomputing Platform & InfrastructureMember of Technical Staff, RL Research & EnvironmentsMember of Technical Staff, DX & Data Tooling EngineerMember of Technical Staff, Defensive Security EngineerMember of Technical Staff, Kernels
Counted from Magic's live job board as of 2026-08-17; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.

Founders & Key People

Eric SteinbergerSebastian De Ro

Investors

Eric Schmidt · Jane Street · Sequoia · Atlassian · Nat Friedman · Daniel Gross · Capital One Ventures · Elad Gil

Products

  • Magic Coding Assistant (frontier coder model)
  • Long-context inference cluster on Google Cloud

Competitors

Anthropic Claude Code · Cursor · GitHub Copilot · Cognition Devin · Replit Agent
AICode GenerationFoundation ModelsSchmidt Backed
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2024-Q3. Refreshed quarterly.