Blacksmith vs Gong
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San Francisco GitHub Actions CI runner at $3.5M ARR with 700+ customers by Sept 2024; $13.5M total ($10M GV Series A) with 2x speed/75% cost reduction through gaming-grade CPUs founded Jan 2024 from YC W24.
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Blacksmith is a San Francisco, California-based high-performance CI/CD infrastructure platform — backed with $13.5 million in total funding including a $10 million Series A in September 2024 led by Google Ventures (four months after a $3.5 million seed round also led by Google Ventures) — providing development teams with drop-in replacement GitHub Actions runners that deliver up to 2x faster CI pipeline execution and up to 75% compute cost reduction through purpose-built gaming-grade CPUs rather than standard AWS/Azure cloud instances. Founded in January 2024 by University of Waterloo alumni Aditya Jayaprakash (CEO), Aayush Shah, and Aditya Maru (Y Combinator Winter 2024 batch), Blacksmith reached $1 million ARR within one month of launch and $3.5 million ARR with 700+ customers by September 2024. Notable angel investors include Spencer Kimball (CEO Cockroach Labs), David Cramer (co-founder Sentry), and other developer tools founders.
San Francisco revenue intelligence platform analyzing calls and emails for sales coaching and forecast AI; $583M raised at $7.25B valuation serving 4,000+ enterprises competing with Clari and Salesloft.
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Gong is a San Francisco-based revenue intelligence platform capturing and analyzing customer-facing interactions — sales calls, emails, video meetings — to provide AI-powered insights that improve sales performance, deal coaching, and forecast accuracy for B2B sales organizations. Founded in 2015 by CEO Amit Bendov and CTO Eilon Reshef and backed with $583 million raised at a $7.25 billion valuation from Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global, and Coatue, Gong serves 4,000+ enterprise customers including LinkedIn, HubSpot, and Dropbox with $200M+ in annual recurring revenue and deep integration with Salesforce, HubSpot, and major sales stack tools.
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