Depot

What Depot does

Depot Technologies, Inc. (founded 2022, headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area) operates a build acceleration and developer productivity platform that speeds up container builds and CI/CD pipelines for software engineering teams. The company was co-founded by Kyle Galbraith (CEO) and Jacob Gillespie (CTO) to address slow validation pipelines in continuous integration systems, a problem they argue has become more acute with the rise of AI coding tools that generate code faster than traditional CI can test. The product portfolio comprises nine distinct offerings: Depot CI (a proprietary programmable CI engine launched March 2026 and built on AWS Lambda durable functions with sub-second microVM cold starts), Container Builds (a remote BuildKit-based Docker build service with persistent layer caching and native Intel/ARM support), GitHub Actions Runners (hosted runners on AWS infrastructure at half the cost of GitHub-hosted alternatives), Depot Cache (distributed remote caching for Bazel, Go, Gradle, Turborepo, sccache, and Pants), Depot Registry (an OCI-compliant container registry), Agent Sandboxes (persistent cloud VMs for AI coding agents such as Claude Code), a Build API for programmatic container building, a Depot CI API for programmatic workflow orchestration, and Depot Managed (a bring-your-own-cloud deployment option). Underlying technical differentiators include a microVM scheduling system that achieves cold boots under one second and native multi-architecture container builds without QEMU emulation.

The business operates a hybrid go-to-market: product-led growth for the Developer ($20/month) and Startup ($200/month) tiers with a 7-day free trial and self-serve CLI onboarding, complemented by a sales-assisted motion for the Business plan (custom pricing) that includes dedicated infrastructure, GPU builds, SSO with SAML/SCIM, AWS PrivateLink, and audit logging. Revenue combines recurring subscription tiers with usage-based overages billed per-second or per-minute, and the Business plan is also purchasable through AWS Marketplace. Distribution leverages Y Combinator (W22 batch) credibility, CNCF silver membership, an active Discord and GitHub developer community, and integrations across all major CI providers (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Buildkite, Jenkins, AWS CodeBuild, GCP Cloud Build). Named customers span diverse verticals and include PostHog, Jane App, Semgrep, TicketSwap, Astral, People Data Labs, Hathora, Albacore, Nominal, Inference, Wistia, Poolside, Equall, and Bastion — a base of 1,800+ organizations and 3,000+ users that processed over 100 million builds in 2025. The company has raised $14.1M total ($4.1M seed in August 2024 led by Felicis, plus $10M Series A in March 2026 led by Felicis with Y Combinator and Pioneer Fund), operates with 1–10 employees, and holds SOC 2 Type II compliance as of March 2024.

Name

Depot

Legal name

Depot Technologies, Inc.

Website

https://depot.dev

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Depot Technologies operates a build acceleration platform offering a proprietary CI engine, remote container builds, GitHub Actions runners, and distributed caching for software engineering teams, with usage-based and subscription pricing across Developer, Startup, and Business tiers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

CI/CD Build Acceleration

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (51821), Computer Facilities Management Services (541513)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

CI/CD Pipeline Engineering & Automation (BPAEAKAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Managed Container Platforms (Kubernetes & Container PaaS) (HDABAAAB), Managed DevOps / Platform Operations (Run & Operate) (BPAEAKAO)

Keywords

• Container build acceleration
• CI/CD optimization
• Remote build caching
• GitHub Actions runners
• Developer productivity platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Beaverton

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Subscription Plans: Monthly subscription tiers (Developer $20/mo, Startup $200/mo) with included build minutes for Docker, GitHub Actions, and Depot CI. Additional usage billed per-second/per-minute.
2. Usage-based Compute: Per-second billing for Depot CI (vCPU-seconds), per-minute billing for GitHub Actions jobs and Docker builds (tracked per second with no minimum). Cache storage at $0.20/GB/month.
3. Enterprise/Business Plan: Custom pricing for Business plan with dedicated infrastructure, GPU builds, SSO, audit logging, AWS PrivateLink, and AWS Marketplace billing.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Depot accelerates Docker container builds and GitHub Actions workflows by running builds on its own hosted AWS infrastructure with persistent layer caching, native Intel and ARM64 multi-architecture support, and per-second compute billing. The platform includes a proprietary programmable CI engine (Depot CI), hosted GitHub Actions runners, distributed remote caching for build systems, an OCI-compliant container registry, and programmable agent sandboxes for AI coding agents — designed as a drop-in replacement for docker build with up to 40x speedups and approximately 50% cost reduction versus standard CI alternatives.

Product overview

Depot is a build acceleration platform consisting of multiple integrated products. The core platform centers on Depot CI, a proprietary programmable CI engine designed for AI-era development, which runs GitHub Actions workflows with parallel execution and instant cold starts. Container Builds provides remote Docker build services with persistent caching and multi-architecture support. GitHub Actions Runners offer hosted runners at half the cost of GitHub-hosted alternatives. Supporting modules include Depot Cache for distributed remote caching across build systems (Bazel, Go, Gradle, Turborepo, sccache, Pants), Depot Registry for OCI-compliant image storage, Agent Sandboxes for AI coding agent environments, and the Build API for programmatic container building. The platform is available across Developer ($20/month), Startup ($200/month), and Business (custom) pricing tiers, plus Depot Managed for customer-deployed infrastructure in their own AWS account.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Depot CI: A programmable CI engine for engineers and agents, built-in caching, parallel steps, real debugging tools, and per-second billing.

Products and services

• Depot CI A programmable CI engine for engineers and AI agents that runs existing GitHub Actions workflows on Depot infrastructure, with built-in caching, parallel steps, SSH debugging, custom images, per-second billing, and an API/SDK for programmatic orchestration. Designed to close the gap between AI-generated code velocity and CI validation throughput.
• Container Builds Remote Docker container build service providing up to 40x faster builds than local Docker, with persistent layer caching shared across team members, native Intel and ARM multi-architecture builds in a single pass, and BuildKit-based execution. Drop-in replacement for docker build that integrates with existing CI providers and developer workflows.
• GitHub Actions Runners Hosted GitHub Actions runners running on AWS infrastructure with 30% faster CPUs, 10x faster networking and cache throughput, and unrestricted concurrency at half the cost of GitHub-hosted runners. Supports Intel, Arm, macOS (M2/M4), and Windows environments across multiple compute sizes from 2 vCPUs to 64 vCPUs.
• Depot Cache Distributed remote caching service for build systems including Bazel, Go (gocache v2), Gradle, Turborepo, sccache, Pants, and moonrepo. Makes all builds incremental by sharing cache across CI environments and local development, with tier-based cache storage from 25GB to custom sizes.
• Depot Registry OCI-compliant container registry for storing container images, pull-through caching, and build artifacts. Version 2 is a ground-up rewrite supporting primary registry use cases in addition to ephemeral build storage.
• Agent Sandboxes Programmable remote cloud sandboxes for AI coding agents (starting with Claude Code), providing persistent VMs with full filesystem context, Git integration, and session sharing across teams for collaborative AI development workflows.
• Build API for Platforms Programmatic API for building container images on behalf of customers in a secure, isolated environment. Supports gRPC, Connect, and HTTP/JSON protocols with a Go SDK and language integrations. Used by platforms such as Hathora to build containers on behalf of end users.
• Depot Managed Bring-your-own-compute deployment option where the Depot data plane is deployed in the customer's own AWS account, ensuring full data residency, compliance, VPC peering, IAM configuration, cost control, and GPU support within the customer's cloud environment.

Quantifiable outcome

• Up to 55x faster Docker builds compared to standard solutions
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers14 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration25 records

AI capability4 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 10 August 2023Depot joined CNCF as a silver member to help more folks learn about and use cloud native technologies like container builds.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• CircleCI: CircleCI is a leading CI/CD platform offering hosted runners with caching and parallelization. Depot directly competes by offering drop-in replacement build acceleration for CircleCI workflows, with faster execution and lower cost.
• Buildkite: Buildkite provides a hybrid CI/CD platform combining hosted and self-hosted runners. Depot integrates with Buildkite for accelerated container builds, positioning itself as a complementary or replacement build acceleration layer.
• Turborepo: Turborepo (by Vercel) provides remote caching for JavaScript/TypeScript monorepo builds. Depot Cache directly competes with Turborepo's remote cache offering while supporting it as an integration target, going head-to-head on caching performance for monorepos.

Broad incumbents

• GitHub Actions: GitHub's native CI/CD offering with hosted runners is the incumbent Depot directly targets, claiming 2x faster performance at half the cost. Depot's GitHub Actions Runners product is explicitly positioned against GitHub-hosted runners.
• GitLab CI: GitLab's integrated CI/CD platform is among the broader incumbents Depot competes with for build acceleration. Depot supports GitLab CI as an integration target, positioning itself as a faster build execution layer.

Emerging players

• Earthly: Earthly provides reproducible build automation with caching. It targets similar developer pain points around slow builds and is an emerging competitor in the build acceleration space with overlapping cloud-based execution.
• LayerCI: LayerCI offers ephemeral CI environments with caching and preview deployments. It competes in the same developer productivity and CI acceleration niche, particularly for frontend and full-stack workflows.
• Modal: Modal provides serverless compute for running code, AI workloads, and CI tasks. It overlaps with Depot's compute infrastructure positioning and targets similar developer personas needing fast, scalable execution.
• E2B: E2B provides cloud sandboxes for AI agents and code execution. It directly competes with Depot's Agent Sandboxes product, both targeting the emerging market for AI coding agent infrastructure.

Others

• Replicate: Replicate runs AI models in the cloud with developer-friendly APIs. While not a direct CI competitor, it represents the broader ecosystem of developer compute infrastructure that Depot's Agent Sandboxes product increasingly intersects with.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/depotdev
• GitHubgithub.com/depot
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/depot-technologies

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds4 records

Investors6 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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