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Modal: $750M Series D and a run rate above $1B
Modal announced a $750M Series D funding round and crossed $1B in annualized run rate, driven by tripled usage and 15x year-over-year growth. The company is building new infrastructure building blocks for AI applications, including functions, sandboxes, and multi-node training capabilities that address the unique demands of modern AI software development.
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Summary
Modal announced a $750M Series D funding round and crossed $1B in annualized run rate, driven by tripled usage and 15x year-over-year growth. The company is building new infrastructure building blocks for AI applications, including functions, sandboxes, and multi-node training capabilities that address the unique demands of modern AI software development.
Tags
ai-infrastructure · series-d-funding · modal-platform · llm-inference · gpu-computing · developer-tools · software-stack
Key entities
Modal (organization, 0.99) · TypeSafe AI (organization, 0.95) · DoorDash (organization, 0.98) · Cognition (organization, 0.92) · Ramp (organization, 0.9) · Linear (organization, 0.9) · Runway (organization, 0.9) · Physical Intelligence (organization, 0.88) · Suno (organization, 0.85) · Sandboxes (technology, 0.95) · Modal Servers (technology, 0.9) · Kubernetes (technology, 0.92) · Docker (technology, 0.92) · LLM inference (concept, 0.96) · GPU computing (concept, 0.94) · Series D funding (event, 0.99)
Classification
memo · language en · status final
Provenance
claude-haiku-4-5 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 19 Oct 2026