Developer platform to build and deploy full-stack web applications without infrastructure overhead
Railway is a developer platform for building and deploying full-stack web applications, abstracting away the operational complexity of AWS, GCP, and Azure. Founded in 2020 by Jake Cooper, the company has grown to over 2 million developers through pure product-led growth with zero marketing spend. In October 2025, Railway raised a $100M Series B led by TQ Ventures to position itself as an 'AI-native cloud' challenger to AWS and Google Cloud, with a focus on hosting agentic workloads.
Developer Tools📍 San Francisco, CAFounded 2020
Current Valuation
Private
as of 2025-Q4
PRIVATE
IPO Outlookprivate
Is Railway going public?
No. Railway is private and has not filed to go public. There is no S-1 on file.
What is Railway's valuation in 2026?
No confirmed valuation is on record for Railway. The roster shows funding and investors where they are public; it does not estimate a mark.
Railway has raised $124M in total, most recently a Series B of $100M in Oct 2025.
Is Railway publicly traded — can you buy Railway stock?
No. Railway is a private company — its shares are not listed on any exchange and there is no ticker. The routes to exposure are pre-IPO secondary marketplaces and funds (accredited investors), employee tender offers when the company runs one, and public companies with read-through exposure. QuantLogix maps every route it can verify for Railway on its Pre-IPO Access Desk.
Answers are derived from the roster record shown on this page — filing status, last round and confirmed marks. Where the record is silent, the answer says so rather than guessing.
Company Profile
CEO
Jake Cooper
Founded
2020
HQ
San Francisco, CA
Employees
~75
Total Raised
$124M
Growth
2M developers on platform, zero marketing spend
Last Round
Series B — $100M (Oct 2025) · Lead: TQ Ventures
IPO Status
private
Fundraising Status
Series B · $100M · 1y ago
privateTotal raised $124M
Latest Funding Round
Round
Amount
Date
Lead Investor
Post-Money
Series B
$100M
Oct 2025
TQ Ventures
—
Talent Signal
Hiring trend
▶ Hiring steady
0% vs 2026-08
Open roles
8
via ashby
Product-build share
100%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
steady
heavy product build — 100% of open roles are product-building functions (engineering/research/product) — 8 of 8 open roles are engineering.
Counted from Railway's live job board as of 2026-09-14; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.
Founders & Key People
Jake Cooper
Investors
TQ Ventures · Redpoint Ventures · Box Group · Founders Fund
Products
Railway Cloud Platform (PaaS for deploy + scale)
Database-as-a-service (Postgres, Redis, Mongo)
AI-native cloud orchestration for agentic workloads
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2025-Q4. Refreshed quarterly.