22 October 2026
Modal, a cloud computing startup, raises $750M at $16B valuation
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- Modal, a cloud platform for running AI workloads, raised $750 million in a Series D funding round at a $16 billion valuation.
- The company's CEO, Erik Bernhardsson, reported an annualized revenue run rate of about $1 billion.
- Sandboxes, isolated environments where code can run safely, now account for roughly a third of Modal's revenue.
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Modal's growth and Series D, duration transformation of GPU capacity, sandboxes and agent infrastructure, serverless GPU mechanics, GPU price risk, engineering culture