Render — Startup Profile

The modern cloud for developers and AI applications

HQ: San Francisco, CA | Founded: 2018 | Employees: Not publicly disclosed | Stage: Growth-stage, venture-backed | Website: https://render.com

About

Render is a cloud application product for deploying web services, databases, background workers, static sites, and AI workloads. It aims to offer a simpler developer experience than assembling systems from multiple cloud primitives.

The Take

Render is positioned as a developer-friendly alternative in the application cloud, with AI workloads adding urgency to its product category. Its opportunity is reducing day-to-day friction for smaller teams.

Its risks include very large-scaler competition, systems margins, and the cdeveloper toolstal required to support computing power-heavy applications.

Key Metrics

• Founded: 2018
• Founders: Anurag Goel
• Latest reported financing: $100M Series C extension
• Products: 3

Funding Rounds

• Round: $100M (2026-02) — Georgian and existing investors
• Round: $100M (2026-02) — Not publicly disclosed in cited source
• Round: $80M (2025-01) — Georgian

Key People

• Anurag Goel

Key Competitors

• Incumbent platforms —
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Timeline Highlights

• 2025-01: Series C
• 2026-02: Growth financing
• 2018: Founded

Recent News

• Render raises $100M at a $1.5B valuation — CNBC (2026-02-17)
  Render announced new financing as demand for cloud infrastructure for AI-built applications increased.

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