Cloudsmith, a Belfast-based firm specialising in artifact management, has successfully secured a substantial $72 million in Series C funding. The round was spearheaded by TCV, with existing investors like Insight Partners also participating, demonstrating a strong, renewed confidence in the company's vision less than 13 months after their $23 million Series B. This significant investment is earmarked for further product development and a broader go-to-market expansion.

The core of Cloudsmith's mission addresses a critical and evolving challenge in enterprise software development. As artificial intelligence coding agents become increasingly adept at generating software at an astonishing pace and volume, the traditional human code review process is becoming insufficient. This surge in AI-generated code leads to an explosion in software artifacts – anything from package files and compiled applications to dependencies and containers – that enterprises must meticulously manage, track, and secure. The threat landscape is also expanding, with compromised open-source dependencies, novel vulnerability patterns introduced by AI, and growing regulatory demands for software to be "secure by design" amplifying the need for robust security measures.
Cloudsmith's platform acts as a cloud-native private registry and artifact management solution. It empowers enterprises to host and distribute their internal software packages, mirror public registries like PyPI and Docker Hub within a controlled private environment, and critically, to enforce security scanning, policy enforcement, and access controls on every component entering or exiting their build pipelines. The company positions its offering as a superior alternative to legacy platforms such as JFrog Artifactory and Sonatype Nexus, arguing that these older tools were not built to handle the scale and complexity of AI-driven development. Cloudsmith has recently enhanced its offering with an ML Model Registry and an Enterprise Policy Manager, further solidifying its commitment to governing and securing the AI software supply chain.
Fuente Original: https://thenextweb.com/news/cloudsmith-72m-series-c-tcv-ai-software-supply-chain
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