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Poolside
Core neolabFoundation models for agentic software development
Raised, confirmed$500M1 confirmed round
Valuation, confirmed$3B2 Oct 2024
Valuation, reported$12B20 Aug 2026 pre-money, not confirmed
Founded2023US
Key facts
| Field | Value | Source · checked |
|---|---|---|
| Classification | Core neolabCoding-model research lab founded in 2023 by Jason Warner and Eiso Kant; $500 million Series B led by Bain Capital Ventures (Oct 2024). | |
| Founded | 2023 | techcrunch.com U.S.- and Europe-based Poolside was founded last year by CEO Jason Warner and Eiso Kant, both software engineers.checked 9 Nov 2026 |
| Headquarters | USOperates in the US and Europe; headquarters city not stated in sources. | techcrunch.comchecked 9 Nov 2026 |
| Founders | Jason Warner, Eiso Kant | |
| Website | poolside.ai | poolside.ai Poolside is a foundation model company bringing intelligence to everywhere work gets done.checked 9 Nov 2026 |
| Careers | poolside.ai4 open roles on 9 Nov 2026 | poolside.aichecked 9 Nov 2026 |
| Profiles and work | X @poolsideaiLinkedInHugging Face, 33 modelsDocsResearch | How links are checkedchecked 10 Nov 2026 |
Funding rounds
Poolside has raised $500M in rounds confirmed by the company, a regulator or two independent outlets. Rounds marked Reported or Abandoned are not included in that total. Status rules: methodology.
| Date | Round | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Status | Source · checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 Aug 2026 | Strategic | $1B | $12B pre-money | Lead: NVIDIA | Reported | SaaStr Nvidia is paying $6B for a non-exclusive license to Poolside’s Model Factory, the internal system Poolside used to build its models, and separately investing $1B at a $12B pre-money valuation.+1 more sourcechecked 9 Nov 2026 |
| 30 Oct 2025 | Funding round | $2B | $12B | NVIDIA | Reported | TechCrunch This investment would be part of a $2 billion funding round Poolside is raising at a $12 billion valuation, according to Bloomberg.+1 more sourcechecked 9 Nov 2026 |
| 2 Oct 2024 | Series B | $500M | $3B | Lead: Bain Capital Ventures; eBay Ventures, NVIDIA | Confirmed | Poolside Announcing our $500 million fundraise to make progress towards AGI+2 more sourceschecked 9 Nov 2026 |
Notes on these rounds
- 20 Aug 2026 Strategic: Reported alongside a $6 billion non-exclusive licence payment by Nvidia for Poolside's Model Factory; about 109 engineers were reported to receive offers from Nvidia.
- 30 Oct 2025 Funding round: Reported by Bloomberg as talks: Nvidia to invest $500 million to $1 billion as part of a $2 billion round at a $12 billion valuation. A later commentary states the round did not close.
- 2 Oct 2024 Series B: Valuation of $3 billion reported by Bloomberg, relayed by TechCrunch; not stated by the company. Total raised to date $626 million at that time, per TechCrunch.
Compute deals
| Date | Counterparty | Type | Value | Capacity | Status | Source · checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Oct 2025 | NVIDIA | Equity + computeNVIDIA GB300 | $1B | — | Reported | bloomberg.comchecked 9 Nov 2026 |
| 15 Oct 2025 | CoreWeave | Capacity contractNVIDIA GB300 NVL72 | undisclosed | 250 MW | Confirmed | investors.coreweave.com CoreWeave will provide a state-of-the-art cluster of NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems, including more than 40,000 GPUs.checked 9 Nov 2026 |
People
| Name | Role | Before | Now | Source · checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jason WarnerXHugging Face | Co-CEO & Co-founder | GitHub (CTO) | Current | |
| Eiso KantXLinkedInHugging Face | Co-CEO & Co-founder | Athenian (Co-founder) | Current |
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What it has shipped
| Name | Kind | Date | Open weights | Source · checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laguna S 2.1 | model | 2026 | Yes | poolside.ai Frontier-class reasoning at mid-size cost. Optimized for quality, speed, and efficiency.checked 9 Nov 2026 |
| Laguna XS 2.1 | model | 2026 | Yes | poolside.ai Our lightest and fastest agentic coding model. Small enough to run on-device.checked 9 Nov 2026 |
Latest posts on X
The most recent posts from @poolsideai, the X account of Poolside, quoted as posted. Replies and reposts are left out. How posts are selected.
We’ll be at ModCon ’26 in SF on August 18! @varunrandery is joining the frontier models panel to talk about building models for long-horizon agentic work, where open models differentiate, and what it takes to get them into production. Join us in SF or tune in online ↓
Agentic evals are messy. A benchmark score tells you something about model performance, but it also reflects the whole system around it: the harness, sandbox, dependencies, timeouts and sometimes a loophole the agent found in the task. That’s why trajectories matter so much to us. They show what the agent actually did and whether the score means what we think it does. We publish them to make that evidence transparent and auditable, giving the wider community more to learn from. Watch @aalSonOfRavi and @ConnorBAdams go deep on all of this with @petergostev from @arena, including some…
Come hear @mgalle and @sudip_r0y get into the weeds on post-training, agent RL, continuous learning, and what it takes to make models work reliably in production!
checked 10 Nov 2026
Commonly cited, checked
Figures and statements about Poolside that circulate in lists and summaries, and what the sources support.
| Claim | Finding | Source |
|---|---|---|
| $1B investment plus a $6B Nvidia licence at $12B pre-money (Aug 2026) | Reported by Bloomberg (paywalled) and relayed by a commentary recap; no company or Nvidia statement found, so the figures are recorded as reported. | saastr.com Nvidia is paying $6B for a non-exclusive license to Poolside’s Model Factory, the internal system Poolside used to build its models, and separately investing $1B at a $12B pre-money valuation. |
| Nvidia | The October 2024 Series B was led by Bain Capital Ventures with eBay Ventures and Nvidia participating. | techcrunch.com The cash came in the form of a Series B led by Bain Capital Ventures, which also had participation from a who’s who of Big Tech firms, including eBay (via eBay Ventures) and Nvidia. |
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