# Spencer Kimball, CEO > Spencer Kimball, CEO. 1 investment on record. The rounds they were named in and the filings that name them, each with its source. Source: https://millionrounds.com/person/spencer-kimball (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article) New York City, US · Angel # Spencer Kimball CEO Latest rounds - **Blacksmith** Series A · $10M Sept 2025 Backs *Developer Tools* *DevOps* *AI* *Cloud* Profile summary - **Rounds named:** 1 last Sept 2025 - **Filings:** - with regulators - **Podcasts:** 3 +2 mentions What this record rests on - ✓ **Named in rounds** 1 round name them - **On filings** No filing names them - ✓ **Own investor record** Their cheques, held under their name - **Claimed** Not claimed yet Titles come from the investor lists this database was built from, so read them as of their date. [Correct or remove](https://millionrounds.com/corrections?person=spencer-kimball)[Is this you? Claim it](https://millionrounds.com/claim?person=spencer-kimball) ## Their investor record [**Spencer Kimball, investing** Every cheque we watched them write, on one record **0** cheques in 12 months **1** all time **0** led quiet](https://millionrounds.com/fund/spencer-kimball) ## Rounds they were named in - **Rounds:** 1 - **Led:** 0 - **Disclosed:** $10M - **Active:** 2025 2025 - [Blacksmith](https://millionrounds.com/company/blacksmith) *Series A* **$10M** *US* Sept 2025 Joined · +3 investors By stage - Series A **1** What they backed Developer Tools **1** DevOps **1** AI **1** Cloud **1** Alongside - [David Cramer *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/david-cramer) - [Google Ventures *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/gv) - [Y Combinator *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/y-combinator) Rounds where a report named this person rather than a firm, matched on name: read it as a strong hint, not proof, since people share names. ## Companies they are listed as backing Portfolio - [Authzed](https://millionrounds.com/startup/authzed) - [Decodable](https://millionrounds.com/startup/decodable) - [Earthly Technologies](https://millionrounds.com/startup/earthly-technologies) - [Grafbase](https://millionrounds.com/startup/grafbase) - [M3O](https://millionrounds.com/startup/m3o) - [Materialize](https://millionrounds.com/startup/materialize) - [Prisma](https://millionrounds.com/startup/prisma-2) - [Select Star](https://millionrounds.com/startup/select-star-co-ltd) - [Timescale](https://millionrounds.com/startup/timescale-2) - Inc. - ReadySet Technology - deepset ## Hear them before you pitch them - [The Official SaaStr Podcast](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/saastr) · 9 Aug 2023 · 39 min SaaStr 681: Scaling to $5B with Cockroach Labs' CEO Spencer Kimball's Formula for Sustained Growth and Resilience With [Spencer Kimball](https://millionrounds.com/person/spencer-kimball) About this episode Whether you're going from nothing to something or already scaling and thriving beyond $10-100M, healthy, sustainable growth in SaaS is on every founder's mind. Cockroach Labs' CEO Spencer Kimball shares hard-won lessons from scaling from $0 to $5B and his time as an angel investor for more than… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page - [This Week in Startups](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/this-week-in-startups) · 19 Aug 2020 · 1h 37m E1098 The Next Unicorns E14: Cockroach Labs CEO Spencer Kimball on the coming paradigm shifts in tech, competing against AWS & more With [Spencer Kimball](https://millionrounds.com/person/spencer-kimball) About this episode Check out Cockroach Labs: https://cockroachlabs.com Follow Cockroach Labs: https://twitter.com/CockroachDB Follow Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis Thanks to our partners... Dell for Entrepreneurs - Save up to 50% off select products, and take an extra 5% off by going to https://launch.co/dell… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page - [The Twenty Minute VC](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/20vc) · 14 Apr 2017 · 30 min 20VC: How Investors Can Get Into The Best Deals & Why Founders First Point Of Contact Should Be With The Investment Decision-Maker with Spencer Kimball, Founder & CEO @ Cockroach Labs With [Spencer Kimball](https://millionrounds.com/person/spencer-kimball) Mentions [Google](https://millionrounds.com/fund/google-assistant-investments)[Google Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/gv) About this episode Spencer Kimball is the Founder & CEO @ Cockroach Labs, the open-source database for building global, scalable cloud services that survive disasters. They have backing from some of the greats of the world of VC having raised from the likes of Sequoia, Benchmark, Google Ventures and Index. As for… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page ### Mentioned in Episodes that name Spencer Kimball in their description, which is not the same as being on them. - [This Week in Startups](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/this-week-in-startups) · 20 Oct 2022 · 56 min Next Unicorns evaluation + Ask Jason | E1590 Mentions [Adena Hefets](https://millionrounds.com/person/adena-hefets)[Daniel Yanisse](https://millionrounds.com/person/daniel-yanisse)[Joe Thomas](https://millionrounds.com/person/joe-thomas)[Renaud Laplanche](https://millionrounds.com/person/renaud-laplanche)[Spencer Kimball](https://millionrounds.com/person/spencer-kimball)[Tim Junio](https://millionrounds.com/person/tim-junio) About this episode New format! Jason evaluates some prior Next Unicorns company's performances since the CEO appeared on the podcast (2:06), and contextualizes the fundraising market throughout the past three years. Then, Jason wraps the show by answering listener questions! (48:18) (0:00) Jason tees up today's new… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page - [This Week in Startups](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/this-week-in-startups) · 22 Aug 2020 · 23 min Best of This Week in Startups: Week of August 17th, 2020 Mentions [Jason Fried](https://millionrounds.com/person/jason-fried)[Spencer Kimball](https://millionrounds.com/person/spencer-kimball) About this episode E1097 featuring Skift's Rafat Ali: https://rb.gy/qn0zyz E1098 featuring Cockroach Labs' Spencer Kimball: https://rb.gy/ls6z3e E1099 featuring Basecamp's Jason Fried: https://rb.gy/b3kye1 Follow Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page Episodes of [the shows we follow](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts), matched by name. Not them? 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