Depot

Depot, founded by Kyle and Jacob, former staff engineers at Thorn and Era Software, is a company rooted in the B2B sector with a focus on engineering, product, and design. The company is part of the Y Combinator W23 batch and operates out of Montpellier, Occitanie, France; London, England, United Kingdom; and offers fully remote positions. Depot is renowned for its innovative approach to Docker container builds, providing cloud-accelerated services that are up to 40 times faster than traditional methods. This technology is powered by machines equipped with 16 CPUs, including fast Xeon Scalable Ice Lake Intel and AWS Graviton3 Arm processors, 32GiB of memory, and fully managed, persistent 50GiB NVMe cache SSDs. Depot’s solutions are used by notable companies such as PostHog, Better Stack, Appsmith, and Novu, helping them save significant amounts of build time daily. Additionally, Depot supports native CPUs for every platform, including AWS Graviton and Apple Silicon, and offers fine-grained distributed caching that can be accessed from both CI and local machines. The company also seamlessly integrates with existing CI providers, infrastructure-as-code, and compute platforms, enhancing its utility and efficiency in the B2B tech space.