Blacksmith
YC W24Founded 2024 · 3 employees · Hiring · 3 known investors
Blacksmith processes jobs and serves developers and organizations. The page does not clearly describe the core product or service offering.
Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (W24)
Blacksmith was founded in 2024 by Aditya (JP) Jayaprakash, Aditya Maru, and Aayush Shah.
A(
Aditya (JP) Jayaprakashin𝕏Co-Founder & CEOAditya Jayaprakash is co-founder and CEO of Blacksmith. Previously, he was an engineer at Faire where he focused on search infrastructure and ads, contributing to the ads platform's scaling. He holds a computer science degree from the University of Waterloo and a master's degree in theoretical computer science from the University of Alberta.
AM
Aditya Maruin𝕏Co-FounderPreviously, he was a senior engineer at Cockroach Labs working on database disaster recovery systems. He holds a Computer Science degree from the University of Waterloo.
AS
Aayush ShahinCo-FounderHe previously worked as a software engineer at Superblocks and as a systems engineer on the replication team at CockroachDB. He holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo.
Investors · 3
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$58.5M disclosed across 3 rounds · 2025–2026
- $45MSeries BAug 2026
Peak XV Partners (lead), GV, Y Combinator
Source ↗ - $10MSeries ASep 2025 · 2 sources
Google Ventures (lead)
Source ↗ - $3.5MSeedMay 2025 · 2 sources
GV (lead), Y Combinator (lead)
Source ↗
Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.
Competitors · 8
by search overlap
Docker177 shared keywordsDocker provides containerization and application development platform tools including sandboxes, governance, and security solutions for developers.
Depot132 shared keywordsDepot is a cloud-based build platform that accelerates software compilation and integration with container tools to reduce developer wait times. It targets software development teams seeking to improve build performance and reduce infrastructure bottlenecks.
Circleci78 shared keywordsCircleCI develops continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) tooling that helps software development and developer-experience teams build, test, and ship code faster and more reliably. It serves engineering teams and businesses across the software delivery lifecycle.
Graphite73 shared keywordsGraphite is an AI-powered code review platform that provides AI reviews on pull requests, stacked PRs, a stack-aware merge queue, and a modern PR page, integrated with GitHub and Git. It serves software development teams looking to review and ship code faster.
CyberPanel71 shared keywordsCyberPanel is a free web hosting control panel built on OpenLiteSpeed that lets users deploy and manage unlimited websites, WordPress installs, email, DNS, databases, backups, and Docker apps from a single dashboard. It targets self-hosting users, agencies, and resellers, and also offers optional paid add-ons plus managed cloud VPS, email delivery, VPN, and managed WordPress hosting services.
GitLab70 shared keywordsGitLab is an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps that enables teams and AI agents to collaborate on the full software development lifecycle, from planning through deployment, with integrated security and compliance capabilities.
Earthly69 shared keywordsEarthly offers Lunar, a platform that converts engineering standards, compliance mandates, and incident-response actions into deterministic guardrails enforced across pull requests and CI/CD pipelines for both human-written and AI-generated code. It targets platform engineering, SRE, and compliance teams, integrating with GitHub, GitLab, and tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and OPA.
Spacelift59 shared keywordsSpacelift is an infrastructure orchestration platform that combines Infrastructure-as-Code, GitOps pipelines, and an AI assistant to let developers provision and manage cloud infrastructure while platform teams retain governance and control. It is offered as managed SaaS, self-hosted, on-prem/air-gapped, and FedRAMP-authorized SaaS, targeting platform and infrastructure engineering teams.
Companies competing with Blacksmith for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
In the news
Frequently asked questions
- What does Blacksmith do?
- Blacksmith processes jobs and serves developers and organizations. The page does not clearly describe the core product or service offering.
- Who founded Blacksmith?
- Blacksmith was founded by Aditya (JP) Jayaprakash, Aditya Maru, Aayush Shah in 2024.
- Who are Blacksmith's investors?
- Blacksmith's investors include Y Combinator, Peak XV Partners, GV (Google Ventures).
- How much funding has Blacksmith raised?
- Blacksmith has disclosed $58.5M raised across 3 rounds.