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title: 'YC alum Depot raises $10M Series A'
date: '2026-03-12T15:32:45-07:00'
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# YC alum Depot raises $10M Series A

Okay okay. I know I’m still struggling with the whole “What even is a Portland startup…?” question in this remote first post pandemic world. But this one is more than a [Earth Class Mail PO Box mixup](https://siliconflorist.com/2024/09/24/no-a-portland-company-did-not-raise-70m/). This actually has a real Portland footprint. With known Portland folks. So I’m going with it. [Depot has raised $10 million](https://depot.dev/blog/depot-raises-series-a).

> If we rewind to the version of Depot when we were just two founders getting into YC, we were focused on one core problem: Docker image builds sucked. We faced the same annoying grind in our day jobs at Thorn and later at Era Software. Watching a multi-platform image build in GitHub Actions takes 45 minutes, all because of flaky networks, bizarre cache limits, and painful emulation.
> 
> We got so frustrated with the problem that we just decided to go build the solution we wanted for ourselves. That POC made our own container builds 5x faster. I can still remember the surprise and telling Jacob, “There’s no way that’s possible.” We were both blown away by the results from what could now be best described as a trivial solution when compared to what Depot does today.
> 
> But it turned out that spirit to go solve our own problems was a springboard to starting a company, getting into YC, and ultimately building a suite of products that powers some of the best engineering teams in the world.

And while Zapproved alum and cofounder and CEO [Kyle Galbraith](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylegalbraith459/) left Portland for France, there are still [Depot](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/depot) folks working here — including [Chris Bright](https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisbrightpdx/), the cofounder of Zapproved.

So I’m calling this a Portland startup win.

For more, read the [announcement from Depot](https://depot.dev/blog/depot-raises-series-a).

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