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Foundation models for agentic software development

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Raised, confirmed$500M1 confirmed round
Valuation, confirmed$3B2 Oct 2024
Valuation, reported$12B20 Aug 2026 pre-money, not confirmed
Founded2023US

Key facts

FieldValueSource · checked
ClassificationCore neolabCoding-model research lab founded in 2023 by Jason Warner and Eiso Kant; $500 million Series B led by Bain Capital Ventures (Oct 2024).
Founded2023
techcrunch.comU.S.- and Europe-based Poolside was founded last year by CEO Jason Warner and Eiso Kant, both software engineers.checked 9 Nov 2026
HeadquartersUSOperates in the US and Europe; headquarters city not stated in sources.
techcrunch.comchecked 9 Nov 2026
FoundersJason Warner, Eiso Kant
Websitepoolside.ai
poolside.aiPoolside is a foundation model company bringing intelligence to everywhere work gets done.checked 9 Nov 2026
Careerspoolside.ai4 open roles on 9 Nov 2026
poolside.aichecked 9 Nov 2026
Profiles and workX @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.

DateRoundAmountValuationInvestorsStatusSource · checked
20 Aug 2026Strategic$1B$12B pre-moneyLead: NVIDIAReported
SaaStrNvidia 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 2025Funding round$2B$12BNVIDIAReported
TechCrunchThis 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 2024Series B$500M$3BLead: Bain Capital Ventures; eBay Ventures, NVIDIAConfirmed
PoolsideAnnouncing our $500 million fundraise to make progress towards AGI+2 more sourceschecked 9 Nov 2026
Notes on these rounds

Compute deals

DateCounterpartyTypeValueCapacityStatusSource · checked
30 Oct 2025NVIDIAEquity + computeNVIDIA GB300$1B—Reported
bloomberg.comchecked 9 Nov 2026
15 Oct 2025CoreWeaveCapacity contractNVIDIA GB300 NVL72undisclosed250 MWConfirmed
investors.coreweave.comCoreWeave will provide a state-of-the-art cluster of NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems, including more than 40,000 GPUs.checked 9 Nov 2026

People

NameRoleBeforeNowSource · checked
Jason WarnerXHugging FaceCo-CEO & Co-founderGitHub (CTO)Current
poolside.aiJason Warner co-CEO & co-Founder @ Poolsidechecked 9 Nov 2026
Eiso KantXLinkedInHugging FaceCo-CEO & Co-founderAthenian (Co-founder)Current
poolside.aiEiso Kant co-CEO & co-Founder @ Poolsidechecked 9 Nov 2026

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What it has shipped

NameKindDateOpen weightsSource · checked
Laguna S 2.1model2026Yes
poolside.aiFrontier-class reasoning at mid-size cost. Optimized for quality, speed, and efficiency.checked 9 Nov 2026
Laguna XS 2.1model2026Yes
poolside.aiOur 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.

ClaimFindingSource
$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.comNvidia 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.
NvidiaThe October 2024 Series B was led by Bain Capital Ventures with eBay Ventures and Nvidia participating.
techcrunch.comThe 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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