Render, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a cloud for application developers, has raised $100 million in a Series C extension funding round led by Georgian.
The round also saw participation from existing investors, including Addition, Bessemer Venture Partners, General Catalyst, and 01 Advisors.
The company is valued at $1.5 billion.
The funding round increased the total amount raised to $258 million.
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The company plans to use the funds to grow its operations and continue developing its products.
Render is a leading cloud platform for application developers. Its rapid growth comes from changes in how software is built. While AI tools make it easier and faster to build applications, hosting them with large cloud providers like Amazon Web Services can still be complex and time-consuming, even for large teams. Render offers simple and flexible cloud services that help developers quickly deploy and scale full-stack applications without the usual complications.
With over 4.5 million developers on the platform and more than 250,000 joining each month, Render is one of the fastest-growing cloud platforms in the world. It has become especially popular with companies building AI products, as its infrastructure supports long-running, stateful applications. Render plans to use the new funding to improve support for AI projects by creating a unified AI application platform that provides all the cloud tools developers need to launch AI apps and agents in one place.
Unlike serverless, frontend-focused platforms, Render supports WebSockets, container-based workloads, and unlimited runtime for backend applications. These features are important for real-time AI and LLM-based apps that may need to run for hours or even days. Its strong support for stateful and distributed systems has made Render a popular choice for fast-growing AI-focused software companies.
This shift is especially clear among companies building AI-focused products. Thousands of AI companies, including Base44, Cognition, Luminai, Paradigm, and Fundamental Research Labs, use Render because its architecture gives them a strong advantage.
Maor Shlomo, founder of Base44 (acquired by Wix), said, “We’ve been able to launch AI features much faster with a small engineering team, and Render’s flexibility and reliability have kept up with our fast-changing needs. After using the platform for the past year, I believe Render represents the future of cloud computing. When they raised their latest round, I chose to invest because the opportunity was too strong to miss.”
Companies like Base44 are growing faster than almost any sector before them. They need infrastructure that is powerful, flexible, and reliable, yet simple enough so engineers can focus on building their product rather than managing systems. Render aims to solve this by creating a unified AI application platform that brings together compute power, long-running execution, fast storage, LLM coordination, and full monitoring in a single place. By making AI development and deployment easier, the company hopes to drive a rapid surge of new AI apps and agents in the years ahead.
To build on this growth, Render has introduced Render Workflows in early access, a system designed to manage complex AI application processes with reliable execution and computing power. In the coming months, the company plans to add object storage, secure code execution sandboxes, shared file systems, and a unified AI gateway. Together, these features will provide AI-focused teams with the tools and visibility they need to launch products and agents more quickly and at lower cost.
Emily Walsh, Lead Investor at Georgian, said, “We believe Render is becoming key infrastructure for the next wave of AI-focused applications. Generative AI makes it easy to write code, but turning AI and agent-based systems into reliable, ready-to-use software is still difficult. Render offers the reliability, scalability, and core tools developers need to build and run these systems quickly. We’re excited to strengthen our partnership with Anurag and the team as they continue to shape this space.”
“We’re seeing a major change in how developers choose cloud providers,” said Anurag Goel, founder and CEO of Render. “Large cloud providers are no longer the automatic choice for teams that want to move quickly. With AI-assisted coding, developers can build faster than ever, and they need a cloud platform that can keep pace. That’s what Render provides.”
About Render
Founded by CEO Anurag Goel, Render is a modern cloud platform that helps development teams launch products faster. Customers can easily build and scale applications and websites with features such as a global CDN, DDoS protection, preview environments, private networking, and automatic deployments from Git. The company won the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield in 2019 and is backed by leading venture firms including Georgian, Bessemer Venture Partners, Addition, General Catalyst, 01A, Avra, and South Park Commons.
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