Anyscale
Managed Ray platform for scaling AI/ML workloads across compute clusters
AI
📍 San Francisco, CA
Founded 2019
Current Valuation
$1.0B
as of 2021-Q4
UNICORN
Anyscale commercializes Ray, the open-source distributed computing framework created at UC Berkeley by founder Ion Stoica (who also created Spark and co-founded Databricks). Powers core AI infrastructure at OpenAI (used for training GPT-4), Uber, Pinterest, and Shopify. CEO Keerti Melkote (ex-Aruba Networks / HPE) took the helm in 2024 to drive enterprise expansion.
Company Profile
Growth
Strong (powers OpenAI training stack)
Last Round
Series C — $199M (Sep 2022) · Lead: Addition
IPO Status
no imminent plans
Founders & Key People
Ion StoicaRobert NishiharaPhilipp Moritz
Investors
Addition · Andreessen Horowitz · NEA · Foundation Capital · Intel Capital · Coatue
Products
- Anyscale Platform (managed Ray)
- RayServe (model serving)
- RayTrain (distributed training)
- RayTune (hyperparameter tuning)
Competitors
Databricks Ray on Spark · AWS SageMaker · Modal · Replicate · Together AI
AI InfrastructureDistributed ComputeRayML Platform
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2021-Q4. Refreshed quarterly.