Cloudsmith
Company typePrivate
IndustrySoftware, DevOps, Artifact Management
Founded2016
FoundersAlan Carson, Lee Skillen
Key people
Glenn Weinstein (CEO)
Websitecloudsmith.com

Cloudsmith is a cloud-native artifact management platform that provides secure, centralized storage and global distribution of software packages. It supports DevOps and CI/CD workflows by integrating with various development tools and offering features like artifact signing, vulnerability scanning, and policy enforcement.[1]

History

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Cloudsmith Ltd. was founded in 2016 by Alan Carson and Lee Skillen in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The company was created to help software developers manage software artifacts more securely and efficiently across the supply chain.

In August 2023, Glenn Weinstein, former CTO of Twilio, was appointed CEO of Cloudsmith.[2]

Overview

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Cloudsmith supports a wide range of package formats, including Docker, npm, Maven, PyPI, RubyGems, NuGet, and Helm, allowing organizations to centralize the management of various software artifacts.[3] Built on cloud-native principles, the platform offers features like automated global distribution via CDN, elastic scaling, and edge caching for high availability.

Security capabilities include vulnerability scanning, artifact signing, policy enforcement, and Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) generation. Policies can be defined using Rego and the Open Policy Agent (OPA). Audit logging and access control mechanisms support compliance monitoring.[4]

Cloudsmith integrates with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, CircleCI, and Bitbucket. It can be accessed via a web interface, CLI, or REST API.

Funding

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In March 2025, Cloudsmith secured $23 million in a Series B funding round led by TCV, with participation from Insight Partners, bringing the company’s total funding to $50 million.[5] Previous rounds were led by Frontline Ventures, MMC Ventures, and Tiger Global.[6]

Notable Users

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Cloudsmith’s platform is used by enterprise customers including American Airlines, Shopify, and PagerDuty.[7]

References

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  1. ^ "Google's Gemini transparency cut leaves enterprise developers 'debugging blind'".
  2. ^ https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230801456783/en/Cloudsmith-Appoints-Glenn-Weinstein-as-CEO
  3. ^ https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/30/cloudsmith-raises-15m-to-help-devops-teams-manage-artifact-distribution/
  4. ^ "Google's Gemini transparency cut leaves enterprise developers 'debugging blind'".
  5. ^ https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/10/cloudsmith-raises-23m-series-b/
  6. ^ https://www.siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/cloudsmith-raises-series-a-mmc-ventures
  7. ^ "Customer Stories".
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