Erik Bernhardsson is a software engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded Modal, a cloud platform built for AI infrastructure workloads. Erik Bernhardsson's Twitter Score is 91 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of September 2026, ranking #8,321 (top 5%) among 486,860 tracked accounts.
Erik Bernhardsson co-founded Modal and serves as its CEO. Modal is a centralized cloud platform supporting AI inference, agent runtimes, reinforcement learning, and batch jobs. The company raised more than $80 million in a Series B led by Lux Capital at a $1.1 billion post-money valuation, per reporting from September 2025, and subsequently closed a Series C led by General Catalyst and Redpoint at a $4.65 billion post-money valuation in May 2026, raising $355 million in that round.
Erik Bernhardsson previously served as Chief Technology Officer at Better.com, where he managed a team of roughly 300 engineers. Before that, he spent six years at Spotify, where he led its Analytics and machine-learning teams, built the first version of its music-recommendation system, and open-sourced both the Luigi workflow engine and the Annoy approximate-nearest-neighbor library. He also serves as an advisor to Weaviate.
Erik Bernhardsson has published 13,458 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 56 accounts a total of 80 times, reflecting consistent engagement across the AI and developer infrastructure community. Erik Bernhardsson has 57,518 followers as of September 2026.
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