As speed the determining currency is in an AI-driven software world, Blacksmith has raised a round under the leadership of Google Ventures-Slechts four months after the seed-up to accelerate how code is sent.
The series A of $ 10 million closed in just 14 days, with Google Ventures doubling after the first support of Blacksmith’s $ 3.5 million seed in May. At the time, the VC -arm of Alphabet gambles on the size of the market and the founder, including veterans of Cockroach Labs, another GV portfolio company. But for this round, GV was influenced by results.
Blacksmith, which offers a continuous integration and continuous delivery service for developers who have a supplement to Github promotions, had attracted hundreds of customers since May, and the tree in AI Codes agents has the market open, co-founder and CEO Aditya Jayaprakash (depicted above) in an exclusive) in an exclusive).
The startup in San Francisco-based rise of $ 1 million in annual income (ARR) in February with only four people-JayaRakash, co-founders Aayush Shah and Aditya Maru, and a product designer. Since then, the turnover has reached $ 3.5 million ARR with more than 700 customers, supported by a team of eight, and the company wants that figure to double by the end of the year, Jayaprakash told Techcrunch.
Blacksmith was founded in January 2024 and was born of the experiences of the founders, who met at the University of Waterloo before he built large -scale distributed systems in Faire and Cockroach Labs. There they saw first -hand how expensive and unpredictable the Build and Unit test phases of software releases, known as continuous integration (CI), can be.
You should run hundreds of machines and break hundreds of hours of mathematics to test new code before sending it, said Jayaprakash.
A typical software development process includes developers who continuously push new code in repositories such as Github or AWS Code Commit. To manage the tests and integration of that code, CloudserviceProviders such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure all offer their own solutions – but these are often slower, more expensive or less predictable than teams need.
Unlike many rivals that rent generic cloud servers from cloud providers such as AWS, Blacksmith’s service works on powerful CPUs with gaming-grade. The result, says the startup, is to double the processing speed and the lowering of no less than 75%, the costs. And because teams can switch by changing just a single line code, they can start sending faster within a few minutes.
