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RunPod

Cloud GPU platform for deploying, training, and scaling AI applications.
AI 📍 Remote / Tampa, USA Founded 2022
Current Valuation
$1.0B
as of 2026-Q2
UNICORN

IPO Outlookprivate

Is RunPod going public?
No. RunPod is private and has not filed to go public. There is no S-1 on file.
What is RunPod's valuation in 2026?
RunPod is valued at $1.0B as of 2026-Q2, set by its Series A ($100M, Jun 2026). That is the last confirmed mark, not a live price — private shares do not trade continuously.
Has RunPod filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for RunPod.
Who are RunPod's investors?
RunPod's investors include Intel Capital, Dell Technologies Capital, Nvidia (via inception program).
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.
RunPod is a cloud GPU platform that lets developers spin up A100/H100 instances on demand or run serverless GPU endpoints for inference. With 500K developers on the platform and $120M ARR reached four years after launch, it has become one of the leading low-cost alternatives to hyperscaler GPU pricing.

Company Profile

CEO
Zhen Lu
Founded
2022
HQ
Remote / Tampa, USA
Employees
~80
Total Raised
$122M
Est. Revenue
$120M (2026-Q1)
Growth
~155% YoY signup growth
Last Round
Series A — $100M (Jun 2026) · Lead: Summit Partners
IPO Status
private

Fundraising Status

Series A · $100M · 2 mo ago
privateTotal raised $122M1 disclosed rounds

Series A Impact

Round Size
$100M
Primary financing announced
Post-Money Valuation
$1.0B
Company-announced mark
Round / Post-Money
10.0%
New capital ÷ post-money
Disclosed Funding
$122M
Cumulative disclosed rounds
Step-up compares disclosed post-money valuations. Round / post-money is a financing-size ratio, not an ownership or dilution estimate.

Funding History

RoundAmountDateLead InvestorPost-Money
Series A$100MJun 2026Summit Partners$1.0B

Vertical Intelligence — AI / ML

Open models
3
verified organization
Downloads (30d)
0
across all models
Followers
67
Attributed to Hugging Face organization "Runpod" as of 2026-08-19. Open-weights footprint only — closed-model usage is not publicly measurable. Verify on Hugging Face ↗

Talent Signal

Hiring trend
● First snapshot
trend accrues with monthly sweeps
Open roles
21
via ashby
Product-build share
86%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
steady
heavy product build — 86% of open roles are product-building functions (engineering/research/product) — 14 of 21 open roles are engineering.
Actively hiring with no tracked executive churn.
Open roles by month
Open roles by month21Aug '26
Open roles by function
Open roles by functionEngineering14Sales & GTM2Design1Marketing1Security1Product1Data & ML1
■ product-building   ■ go-to-market / G&A
Senior Software Engineer (Cloud) Technical Support Engineer (L2)Forward Deployed Engineer APACSenior Procurement Manager (Supply, Cloud Infrastructure)Senior Product DesignerEngineering Manager - Product & Platform Delivery
Counted from RunPod's live job board as of 2026-08-17; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.

Founders & Key People

Zhen LuPardeep Singh

Investors

Intel Capital · Dell Technologies Capital · Nvidia (via inception program)

Products

  • GPU Cloud (on-demand)
  • Serverless GPU endpoints
  • Secure Cloud
  • Community Cloud
  • Storage volumes

Competitors

CoreWeave · Lambda Labs · Vast.ai · Together AI · Modal
aicloudgpuinfrastructureml-opsRecently Funded
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2026-Q2. Refreshed quarterly.