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title: "The Currency: Blazing a Belfast trail: “We had to write our own playbook”"
description: "Cloudsmith has raised $123m to date, a record for a Northern Ireland start-up. Its co-founder Alan Carson talks about scaling a global B2B software company from the region, and why others can do it too."
canonical_url: "https://cloudsmith.com/company/press/the-currency-blazing-a-belfast-trail-we-had-to-write-our-own-playbook"
last_updated: "2026-10-26"
---
# The Currency: Blazing a Belfast trail: “We had to write our own playbook”