Modal is an AI infrastructure and serverless cloud platform that lets developers run inference, batch processing, sandboxes, training, and related workloads without managing servers. Modal's Twitter Score is 64 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of September 2026, ranking #13,332 (top 5%) among 486,860 tracked accounts.
Modal was co-founded by Erik Bernhardsson as CEO and Akshat Bubna as CTO. The platform is built on infrastructure the team engineered from scratch, including a custom file system, container runtime, scheduler, and container image builder, giving developers a tightly integrated environment for running compute-heavy workloads at scale.
Modal has raised substantial venture funding across several rounds. The company closed a $16 million Series A in October 2023, bringing total funding at that point to $23 million, per its announcement. In September 2025, Modal raised more than $80 million in a Series B at a $1.1 billion post-money valuation, reaching $111 million in total funding. A $355 million Series C followed in May 2026 at a $4.65 billion post-money valuation, with the company stating it had grown fivefold since the Series B and surpassed $300 million in annualized revenue. Backers include General Catalyst, Redpoint Ventures, Lux Capital, Amplify Partners, Creandum, Menlo Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Accel, and Definition Capital. Modal has 35,818 followers as of September 2026 and has published 1,629 posts. The account has been mentioned by 173 accounts, with 308 total mentions.
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