Depot (CI build acceleration)

Depot was founded in 2022 by platform and DevOps engineers Kyle Galbraith and Jacob Gillespie, with Galbraith as CEO and Gillespie as CTO. The company was incorporated in January 2022, opened a private beta in May and launched publicly in July.⁠[1][2]

Depot initially targeted slow container image builds in GitHub Actions, running them on cloud virtual machines with SSD-backed layer caching, which at first made builds five times faster; it signed ten customers in the first week of its beta.⁠[1]

In January 2023 Depot joined Y Combinator’s Winter 2023 batch.⁠[1][2]

On August 22, 2024, Depot announced a $4.1 million seed round led by FelicisFelicisFelicis (whose funds and earlier brand use the name Felicis Ventures) is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, founded in 2006 by former Google product manager Aydin Senkut; it has invested in companies including Shopify, Canva and Adyen.Open the full entry, with Y Combinator, Aviso Ventures, Tokyo Black and several angel investors participating. The round followed the launch of its third product, Depot GitHub Actions Runners, and its passing one million builds a month.⁠[3]

At the time Depot had more than 3,000 users across over 1,800 organizations, with customers including PostHogPostHogPostHog is a software company and product platform founded in 2020 by James Hawkins and Tim Glaser. It began with open-source product analytics and expanded into session replay, feature flags, experimentation, a data warehouse and AI-assisted development. It offers cloud services and open-source code, with some enterprise features under separate licensing; PostHog Desktop entered public beta in 2026.Open the full entry, Wistia and Semgrep. Galbraith said: “Builds are the linchpin of software development.”⁠[3]

In March 2026 Depot raised a $10 million Series A.⁠[2]

On March 24, 2026, Depot launched Depot CI, its own programmable CI service. In the launch post Galbraith said the company had previously been able to speed up only about 30 percent of CI and “the other 70% was outside our control.” Depot CI runs GitHub Actions workflows, which can be migrated with a single command, on an architecture called Switchyard made up of an orchestrator and a compute subsystem, and is billed at $0.0001 per second.⁠[4]

In August 2026 Depot CI became available in Origin, a code hosting platform from CursorCursorCursor is the trading name of U.S. AI coding software company Anysphere, Inc. and its namesake coding tool. Founded by Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark and Aman Sanger, it began as an AI-native development environment forked from VS Code and later shifted toward agent-centered coding. Its November 2025 Series D valued the company at $29.3 billion post-money; on August 14, 2026, SpaceX completed an all-stock acquisition at an implied equity value of $60 billion, making Cursor a wholly owned subsidiary.Open the full entry that was then in early beta; users need a Cursor Pro, Teams or Enterprise plan with Origin access, and Depot works only on repositories hosted on Origin.⁠[5]

On October 20, 2026, Depot launched two products: Managed Agents, which runs coding agents from Claude, OpenAIOpenAIOpenAI is an artificial intelligence research and product organization founded in 2015 that develops the GPT model series, ChatGPT, Codex and a developer API, and conducts research on image, speech, video and intelligent agents. After its 2025 restructuring, the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation continues to control the for-profit OpenAI Group PBC. Its growth has involved large-scale fundraising and compute partnerships, and has also been accompanied by controversies over governance, copyright, privacy and AI safety.Open the full entry and Devin on Depot’s infrastructure, and Depot Sandboxes, isolated Linux microVMs created through an SDK and sized from 2 to 64 vCPUs. Both run on Depot Metal, the infrastructure that runs Depot CI jobs.⁠[6]

Depot’s website lists Felicis, Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund, Aviso Ventures, Tokyo Black and Kima Ventures among its institutional investors, and Docker founder Solomon Hykes and Looker founder Ben Porterfield among its individual backers. Its Y Combinator company page lists 22 employees.⁠[2][7]

Depot: Official website: https://depot.dev/ (opens in a new window).⁠[2]

X: Public account: https://x.com/depotdev (opens in a new window).⁠[2]

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