# Cloudsmith

> Cloudsmith is a Belfast-founded, cloud-native artifact management platform that gives engineering teams a single place to store, secure, and distribute software packages and containers across 30+ formats. It acts as a private, fully managed registry with built-in supply chain controls - vulnerability and malware scanning, policy enforcement, quarantine, and global distribution - increasingly positioned around governing the flood of code produced by AI coding agents.

- **Founded:** 2016
- **Headquarters:** Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
- **Founders:** Alan Carson (Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer (former CEO)), Lee Skillen (Co-founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** ~110-150 employees, majority in Belfast with a growing US presence
- **Products:** Artifact Management, Container Registry, Supply Chain Security, Software Distribution, Observability & Governance
- **Notable:** Raised $72M Series C in April 2026 led by TCV with Insight Partners, bringing total funding to roughly $126M., Grew from a Belfast startup into a company reported to be nearing a $1 billion valuation., Built a universal registry supporting 30+ package and container formats on a single platform.

## Products & services

- **Artifact Management** — A universal, fully managed registry supporting 30+ package formats plus raw files, with multi-format repositories, upstream proxying and caching, package promotion and signing workflows.
- **Container Registry** — A Docker-compatible, OCI-compliant registry for storing and distributing container images alongside all other artifact formats.
- **Supply Chain Security** — Vulnerability and malware scanning, policy management via OPA Rego, automatic quarantine and approval workflows, package signing, and a dependency firewall between open source and internal builds.
- **Software Distribution** — Global delivery across roughly 600 points of presence with edge caching, fault tolerance, end-to-end encryption, and read-only distribution tokens.
- **Observability & Governance** — Detailed usage analytics, full audit trails, license and dependency metadata extraction, SBOM support, SAML/SSO, SCIM, and OIDC token authentication for compliance.
- **Cloudsmith Navigator / CLI & Terraform Provider** — Developer tooling including a CLI, Terraform provider, and API-first architecture for automating repository and policy management.

## Achievements

- Raised $72M Series C in April 2026 led by TCV with Insight Partners, bringing total funding to roughly $126M.
- Grew from a Belfast startup into a company reported to be nearing a $1 billion valuation.
- Built a universal registry supporting 30+ package and container formats on a single platform.
- Operates a global distribution network spanning roughly 600 points of presence.
- Won enterprise customers including Shopify, HP, PagerDuty, Font Awesome and EnterpriseDB.
- Repositioned the artifact registry as a security and governance control point for AI-generated code.

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — Closed a $72M Series C led by TCV with participation from Insight Partners to control and secure the AI-powered software supply chain.
- **2025-03** — Raised a $23M Series B led by TCV to accelerate software supply chain security and US go-to-market.
- **2023-08** — Appointed Glenn Weinstein (former Twilio Chief Customer Officer) as CEO; co-founder Alan Carson moved to Chief Strategy Officer.

## Links

- Website: https://cloudsmith.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cloudsmith
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/cloudsmith
- GitHub: https://github.com/cloudsmith-io
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@cloudsmith
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cloudsmith.io/

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Last updated: 2026-07-21