What it sells
The fastest way to run your GitHub Actions
Business model breakdown
Buyer: who owns the budget?
UnverifiedEngineering/DevOps leads responsible for CI cost and speed.
Trigger: what makes them buy now?
Slow, costly GitHub-hosted runners and opaque CI.
Workflow: what inputs become what output?
Change runs-on to Blacksmith; jobs run on bare-metal microVMs with co-located cache, Docker layer caching and an observability console.
Economics: what it saves and how it charges
Per-minute usage pricing about 33% below GitHub, 2x faster, claiming up to 67% total savings.
Distribution: how it reaches customers
Self-serve (no credit card), contact team, customer stories.
Funding history and coverage
| Round date | Stage | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Y Combinator Winter 2024 | — | Y Combinator | ycombinator.com |
Profiles summarize public reporting and company websites. Business-model notes are MaxBC's reading of that material, not confirmed facts; unknowns are left blank rather than guessed. Updated 2026-10-12.