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Anyscale — Startup ProfileProduction-scale AI with Ray — the commercial platform for distributed Python & LLM workloadsHQ: San Francisco, CA, United States | Founded: 2019 | Employees: 200–430 (est.; 430 per Latka/Tracxn 2023) | Stage: Series C+ ($1B valuation) → Acquired by Nscale ($1.65B, 2026) | Website: https://www.anyscale.comAboutAnyscale was founded in 2019 in San Francisco by Robert Nishihara (CEO), Philipp Moritz, and Ion Stoica — creators of Ray at UC Berkeley's RISELab (AMPLab successor) — along with Berkeley professor Ion Stoica (also co-founder of Databricks/Conviva). Ray is the open-source distributed computing framework that lets AI builders scale Python workloads (training, batch inference, RL) across clusters without rewriting for Kubernetes. Anyscale is its commercial platform: managed Ray on any cloud with autoscaling, observability and LLM serving. It raised $20.6M Series A led by a16z (2019 press), $40M Series B led by NEA (Oct 21 2020), $100M Series C at $1B (Dec 7 2021, Venture Capital Journal/WSJ), plus $99M addition in Aug 2022 from Addition/Intel per WSJ at >$1B valuation. Tracxn records $281M tKey Metrics

Valuation: $1B+ (Dec 2021)

Series C: $100M (Dec 2021)

Follow-on: $99M (Aug 2022)

Total Funding: $281M (4-5 rounds)

ARR (2023): $111.9M

Exit: $1.65B acquisition by Nscale (2026)

Funding Rounds

Round: $20.6M (2019-03) — Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)

Round: $40M (2020-10-21) — NEA (New Enterprise Associates)

Round: $100M (2021-12-07) — Addition (Lee Fixel) / NEA

Round: $99M (2022-08-02) — Addition, Intel Capital

Key People

Keerti Melkote

Robert Nishihara

Philipp Moritz

Ion Stoica

Key Competitors

Databricks —

AWS SageMaker / GCP Vertex / Azure ML —

Modular / Modal / RunPod —

CoreWeave / Nscale (acquirer) —

Timeline Highlights

2026-08-17: Acquired by Nscale for $1.65B

2024-07: CEO transition (Melkote replaces Nishihara)

2022-08-02: $99M C-2 at $1B+ (WSJ)

2021-12-07: $100M Series C at $1B (unicorn)

2020-10-21: $40M Series B (NEA)