Depot raises $4.1M to help developers speed up software builds by 40X or more
Software development is an interesting task for many reasons, but among the worst and most wasteful parts is waiting for containerized builds to run and test their applications.
Developer Kyle Galbraith found himself twiddling his thumbs and waiting for software builds too often, so he was inspired to find a way to make them much faster.
That led him to co-found Depot, a rapidly growing build acceleration platform, which today announced its $4.1 million seed funding round led by Felicis, with participation from Y Combinator, Aviso Ventures, Tokyo Black, and several angel investors.
“Today, Depot is a build acceleration platform that makes container image builds and GitHub action workflows up to 40 times faster,” said Kyle Galbraith, CEO and co-founder of Depot, in a video call interview with VentureBeat earlier this week.
This capital infusion is set to propel Depot’s expansion and further enhance its platform, which is already making waves in the software development community.
Depot’s ultimate vision is to make all builds—whether local or in continuous integration—near instant, with comprehensive ecosystem integration. “The ultimate goal here is to make builds, all builds, whether they’re local or in CI, or whether they’re Docker or GitHub action runners or something else, to make all of those near instant with comprehensive ecosystem integration,” Galbraith said.