Cloudsmith Lands $72M Series C to Secure AI-Generated Software Supply…

Team S · 2026-04-23T16:19:11.000Z

Belfast-founded software infrastructure startup Cloudsmith has raised $72 million in a Series C funding round to help enterprises govern and secure the rapidly growing wave of AI-generated software. The raise marks one of the largest recent tech financings from Northern Ireland and underscores surging investor interest in AI-era cybersecurity infrastructure. The round was led by TCV, with participation from Insight Partners and other existing investors. Both firms also backed Cloudsmith’s earlier Series B round, signaling continued conviction in the company’s market position and growth trajectory. Founded in 2016, Cloudsmith provides a cloud-native artifact management platform that helps engineering teams host, control, distribute, and secure software packages, containers, binaries, and dependencies across development pipelines. As enterprises adopt AI coding tools, the volume of generated code components has surged creating new governance and security challenges. The company’s platform acts as a control layer for software supply chains, allowing enterprises to mirror public registries such as PyPI, Docker Hub, Maven, and npm into secure private environments while applying policy controls, access management, and vulnerability scanning. Cloudsmith has also expanded into AI and machine learning artifact governance through tools such as model registries and enterprise policy management, helping organizations manage datasets and ML models with the same rigor as software packages. The new capital will be used to accelerate product development and expand go-to-market operations as Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies increasingly migrate from legacy platforms toward modern cloud-native alternatives. As AI agents generate code faster than humans can manually review it, Cloudsmith is positioning itself as critical infrastructure for the next generation of software development where security, compliance, and automation must scale together.

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