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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.