blacksmith.sh · Market Analysis

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Blacksmith is a company founded in 2024 that provides a highperformance cloud platform to run…

Team
  • Aditya JayaprakashFOUNDER
  • Aditya MaruFOUNDER
  • Aayush ShahFOUNDER
Categories
Cloud Computing / Software Development InfrastructureContinuous Integration (CI) PlatformCloud PlatformDeveloper ToolsHardware-Software Optimization
Business Model
SaaS with Hardware-Software Stack
Funding
Total Raised$13.5M
Last RoundSeries A · $10M — 2025
Markets
United States

Players (9)

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GitHub Actions Hosted Runners (GitHub-hosted)

github.com

Native GitHub-hosted runners that execute CI workflows on shared GitHub infrastructure with pay‑as‑you‑go pricing and automatic scaling.

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CircleCI

circleci.com

Cloud and self‑hosted CI platform with optimized resource classes, caching, and parallelism to speed up builds for GitHub repositories.[2][6]

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GitLab CI/CD

gitlab.com

Integrated CI/CD system that can run pipelines for GitHub repos using scalable runners on cloud or self‑managed infrastructure.[1][2]

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Buildkite

buildkite.com

Hybrid CI platform that uses fast, self‑hosted agents on your own infrastructure while providing a managed control plane for pipelines.[2][6]

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Travis CI

www.travis-ci.com

Hosted CI service for GitHub and other repos, offering on‑demand compute and parallelism to run automated tests and builds.[2][6]

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Northflank

northflank.com

Cloud‑native platform with built‑in CI pipelines, auto‑scaling, and parallelism designed to replace or augment GitHub Actions for faster delivery.[2]

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Harness CI

harness.io

Enterprise CI and CD platform that provides scalable build infrastructure, advanced caching, and governance for high‑performance pipelines.[2]

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Appcircle CI/CD

appcircle.io

Cloud CI/CD service positioned as a GitHub Actions alternative, providing hosted build infrastructure and pipelines, especially for mobile apps.[7]

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AWS CodeBuild

aws.amazon.com

Fully managed build service on AWS that runs CI workloads from GitHub and other sources on on‑demand, scalable compute.[6]

Funding Rounds

Seed · $3.5M2025
GV, Y Combinator, Spencer Kimball, Peter Mattis, Rich Aberman, JJ Fliegelman, Eli Brown, Theo Browne
Series A · $10M2025
Google Ventures, Spencer Kimball, David Cramer