Blacksmith
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$45M
1 round on record
Latest round
$45M
Series B · Aug 2026 · 2 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
15
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
2
Y Combinator, GV
The money's age
Fresh money
2 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
38/100
hiring for its size, in the news, fresh money
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Aug 12
Raised a round Series B $45M · led by Peak XV Partners · Unite.AI
Dec 16, 2025
On the Hacker News front page The GitHub Actions control plane is no longer free · 216 points
Jul 23, 2025
On the Hacker News front page Reverse engineering GitHub Actions cache to make it fast · 154 points
May 14, 2025
On the Hacker News front page How the economics of multitenancy work · 186 points
Apr 6, 2024
On the Hacker News front page Cache is King: A guide for Docker layer caching in GitHub Actions · 210 points
Jan 2024
Went through Y Combinator
2024
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.38%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
35
best: 216 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series B | Aug 2026 | $45M | Peak XV Partners lead | Unite.AI |
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How Blacksmith hires
Truth index
A 87/100
Median time to fill
161 days
Ghost roles
13%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Blacksmith scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 15 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 13% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 161 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
News
How Blacksmith runs 10M jobs per day Blacksmith
Scaling Scheduling past 10 Million Daily Jobs
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John Deere: A Blacksmith, a Plow, and the Making of an American Name
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'Blacksmith Master' Leaving Early Access, Gets November Release Date - Trailer
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Peak XV Leads $45 Mn Bet On US-Based AI Code Testing Startup Blacksmith
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Blacksmith raises $45M to aid AI code validation as agentic development grows
Blacksmith Software Inc. today announced it hasraised $45 million in new funding for its continuous integration service,which combines code development with cloud-based testing instead of on the d
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Blacksmith Raises $45M to Scale AI Code Validation Cloud
Blacksmith Raises $45M to expand AI code validation infrastructure as coding agents drive demand for faster software testing.
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Blacksmith Raises $45M Series B at $550M Valuation to Scale AI Code Validation
Blacksmith, a San Francisco startup that runs continuous integration workloads on purpose-built hardware, has raised a $45 million Series B led by Peak XV Partners at a $550 million valuation, the company announced on Au...
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The physics of Docker build caching Blacksmith
Concepts, rules of thumb, and what dissecting a few hundred CI builds says about them.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Blacksmith over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
18
Postings analysed
16
Stack modernity
84/100AI adopter
Languages
SQL6%
Cloud & platforms
GitHub Actions100%
AWS6%
Azure6%
GCP6%
AI & ML
Claude13%
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18 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$223k
Typical range
$120k – $380k
Open positions
12
3
Jobs
Senior
66.7%
Staff
33.3%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 2 | $260k | $220k – $300k |
| Staff | 1 | $380k | $380k |
Highest paying role
Staff Product Engineer
$380k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Blacksmith
By role, level and city, against the market · 12 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
56/100
Growing
Open positions
15
2 opened / 3 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
30 days
faster than 43% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~3 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
HR
22% ▲
Sales
22% ▼
Product
11% ▼
Administrative
11% ▲
Design
11% ▼
Finance
11% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added SIEM to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
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Owner and Data Controller
8 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $204k Avg Salary
hires for Leadership, Support, Administrative
Blacksmith Software Inc. 95 Third Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco CA, 94103, United States
New York
United States
Engineering / R&D
7 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 29% engineering 50-200 est. staff $259k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Product, Administrative
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Financials
Total raised
$45M
Latest round
Series B
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | Valuation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series B | 2026 | $45M | $550M | Details |