Blacksmith
Blacksmith is a company that provides infrastructure for fast and cost-effective CI workloads, operating a global fleet of bare-metal machines and managing large-scale distributed systems. They serve over 2,000 companies, run tens of millions of Firecracker VMs monthly, and have rapid growth and a strong tech foundation.
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Company Size
1-10 employees
Founded
2024
Blacksmith is a drop-in replacement for GitHub Actions runners that runs CI/CD workflows 2x faster, downloads caches 4x faster, and builds Docker images 40x faster by leveraging bare metal gaming CPUs and co-located caching infrastructure. It costs 60% less than standard GitHub runners and eliminates queue times, making it a cost-effective solution for engineering teams. Blacksmith also provides an observability console for monitoring pipelines, debugging flaky tests, and surfacing CI insights directly within the developer workflow.
Google Ventures doubles down on dev tool startup Blacksmith just 4 months after its seed round
Sep 17, 2025
Blacksmith Medicines and Collaborators to Present at the Interdisciplinary Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance and Innovation (IMARI)
1 month ago
Dev tool startup Blacksmith Software gets $10M to accelerate continuous integration
Sep 17, 2025
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Company Size
201-500 employees
Founded
2018
Industry
Technology
Glassdoor Rating
4.2 / 5
Sarah Johnson
Chief Executive Officer
Michael Chen
Chief Technology Officer
Emily Williams
VP of Engineering
David Rodriguez
VP of Product
Jessica Thompson
Chief Financial Officer
Andrew Park
VP of Sales
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Google Ventures Doubles Down on Blacksmith With $10M Series A
Sep 17, 2025