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Cloudsmith Joins Chainguard's Athena Coalition to Close the Gap Between Vulnerability Discovery and Customer Protection

Sept 27 2026

Cloudsmith announces new features for enforcing software supply chain governance in artifact repositories

Cloudsmith, the leading cloud-native artifact management and software supply chain platform, today announced an expansion to its policy management and continuous risk detection capabilities, adding policy templates, cooldown policies and expanded evaluation triggers. Aug 16 2026

Cloudsmith Expands Leadership with CFO and General Counsel Appointments

Cloudsmith appointed Mark O'Connor as Chief Financial Officer and Dan Lascell as General Counsel, strengthening its executive leadership team as the company scales to meet the demands of Fortune 500 and Global 2000 customers. The hires follow Cloudsmith's $72M Series C and position the company to meet IPO-scale financial, legal, and governance standards. Jun 7 2026

Cloudsmith Raises $72M Series C Led by TCV and Insight Partners to Control and Secure the AI-Powered Software Supply Chain

Belfast, UK, 23 April, 2026 — Cloudsmith, the universal artifact management platform trusted by some of the world's leading enterprises, today announced a $72M Series C financing led by TCV and with participation from Insight Partners, along with investments from other existing investors. The additional funding positions Cloudsmith for massive growth to power the era of AI-driven software development. Apr 22 2026

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DevOps.com: Cloudsmith extends policies and controls to secure application binaries

Cloudsmith has introduced expanded policy management and continuous risk detection capabilities, focusing on policy templates, cooldown policies and expanded evaluation triggers, positioning these updates as a way for DevOps teams to prevent malicious or unvalidated packages from reaching production. Aug 18 2026

UK business equity investment rises by more than a quarter in H1 as innovation-led sectors lead fundraising

Barclays' latest Regional Investment Map shows that UK businesses attracted £14.4 billion in equity investment in H1 2026, up 26 percent from H2 2025. Northern Ireland investment rose 63.4 percent to £72.2 million, led by a £53.5 million round for Cloudsmith. Cloudsmith's raise was one of the standout deals driving Northern Ireland's growth. Jul 29 2026

ars Technica: For the 2nd time in weeks, Microsoft packages laced with credential stealer

Dozens of cryptographically verified open source packages from Microsoft were compromised late last week to add advanced credential-stealing code that was triggered when developers opened them in AI coding agents. Jun 8 2026

Tech Crunch: Microsoft’s open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers

Microsoft has cut off access to dozens of its open source projects hosted on GitHub as it investigates how hackers apparently breached the projects and injected password-stealing malware into the code. According to security firm Cloudsmith and community-driven malware analysis site OpenSourceMalware, which were some of the first to flag the hack, the malware allowed the hackers to steal the users’ passwords and other sensitive credentials when they opened the compromised tools in their AI coding apps. Jun 7 2026

BBC: Deal moves software firm closer to $1bn 'unicorn' status

Cloudsmith, a Belfast software company, has received a £50m investment led by two US venture capital firms. It is the largest deal of this kind ever done by a Northern Ireland-based technology company and the investment will be used to increase hiring and accelerate software development. The company currently has 130 staff, mainly based in Belfast. Apr 22 2026

Irish Tech News: Cloudsmith raises $72M Series C to defend the software supply chain against a new wave of AI-driven attacks

Cloudsmith, the universal artifact management platform trusted by some of the world’s leading enterprises, today announced a $72M Series C financing led by TCV and with participation from Insight Partners, along with investments from other existing investors. Apr 22 2026