Depot blog · Jul 2026
Depot entered private beta with its own source-control hosting product, built on horizontally scalable, S3-backed git infrastructure.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
Depot is a remote-first developer tools company founded in 2022 that builds a cloud-based build acceleration and CI platform for Docker/container builds, GitHub Actions runners, distributed caching, and an increasingly programmable CI stack for engineers and agents.
Primary product
Build acceleration platform and programmable CI system (Depot CI, remote container builds, GitHub Actions runners, and remote cache)
Founded
2022
Headquarters
Beaverton, Oregon, United States
Team size
20-30
Work style
Remote
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Developer tools / CI/CD / build acceleration
Business model
usage-based SaaS
subscription SaaS
enterprise sales
Funding
Stage
Series A
Total raised
$16.5M
Latest round
Series A · Mar 2026
Latest amount
$10M
People & investors
Work & culture
Depot describes itself as remote-first and values quality, craftsmanship, communication, empathy for customers, ownership, self-starters, and data-driven decisions. The company emphasizes fast hiring, async collaboration, and high accountability.
Work style
Remote
Compensation
Public job postings have shown salary bands such as $100K-$250K for a Staff Software Engineer role; roles are remote and hiring has been listed for the US, UK, and EU or North America/Europe depending on role, but no company-wide compensation policy was publicly disclosed.
Benefits
fully remote
remote-first
work-life balance
ownership culture
self-starter culture
data-driven decision making
flexibility
distributed across US, Canada, and Europe
Product & market
Pricing
Usage-based SaaS with tiered plans (Developer, Startup, Business/custom) and per-second CI billing for Depot CI; free trial available.
Differentiators
- —Up to 55x faster builds and up to 40x faster Docker/container builds
- —Managed GitHub Actions runners at roughly half the cost of GitHub-hosted runners
- —Distributed caching for Bazel, Go, Gradle, Turborepo, sccache, Pants, and Maven
- —API-first and agent-friendly CI with logs, metrics, retries, and diagnostics
- —Native Intel and Arm support
- —Deployable into a customer's own AWS account for the managed/business offering
- —Deep observability plus AI-assisted optimization (Sherlock)
- —7-day free trial with no credit card required
Technology
AWS
TypeScript
Go
React
protobuf
gRPC
MySQL
PlanetScale
ClickHouse
OpenTelemetry
Docker
Kubernetes
Terraform
GitHub Actions
HubSpot
AWS Lambda
CircleCI
Jenkins
Bazel
Turborepo
Customers
PostHog
Nominal
Albacore
Astral
Inference
Jane
Bastion
Hathora
People Data Labs
PlanetScale
Wistia
Semgrep
Mastodon
gRPC
Appsmith
Competitors
GitHub Actions
GitHub-hosted runners
Buildkite
Docker Build Cloud
CircleCI
GitLab CI
AWS CodeBuild
BuildKit/self-hosted runners
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
about $7M-$8M annual revenue (third-party estimate)
Estimated monthly visits
71.8K
Traffic estimate as of Jul 2026
Latest news
Depot blog · Jul 2026
Depot moved CI and sandbox workloads to its new compute/storage platform, claiming around 30% faster workloads and a more unified infrastructure stack.
Depot blog · Jun 2026
Depot released a private-beta SDK for programmatically creating and managing isolated compute sandboxes.
Depot blog · Jun 2026
Depot made the CI API and CLI generally available, enabling programmatic control over runs, logs, diagnostics, secrets, and variables.
Depot blog · Mar 2026
Depot announced a $10M Series A and said the capital will support the broader software delivery platform, including Depot CI.
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