Run:ai Raises $75M in Series C Round to Accelerate AI Adoption Worldwide
The AI orchestration platform grew Annual Recurring Revenue by 9x in 2021 and staff by 3x
Tel Aviv, March 15, 2022. Run:ai, the company simplifying AI infrastructure orchestration and management, today announced that it has raised $75M in Series C round led by Tiger Global Management and Insight Partners, who led the previous Series B round. The round includes the participation of additional existing investors, TLV Partners and S Capital VC, bringing the total funding raised to date to $118M.
Run:ai has grown sharply, with a 9x increase in Annual Recurring Revenue in the last year, while the companyâs staff more than tripled over the same period. The company plans to use the investment to further grow its global teams and will also be considering strategic acquisitions as it develops and enhances the companyâs Atlas software platform.
Omri Geller, Run:ai CEO and co-founder, said, âIt may sound dramatic, but AI is really the next phase of humanityâs development. When we foundedRun:ai, our vision was to build the de- facto foundational layer for running any AI workload. Our growth has been phenomenal, and this investment is a vote of confidence in our path. Run:ai is enabling organizations to orchestrate all stages of their AI work at scale, so companies can begin their AI journey and innovate faster.â
Research firm IDC predicts global AI spending in 2022 will reach $433bn, nearly a 20% annual increase. However, AI infrastructure is complex to manage and scale. Companies see low hardware utilization, scheduling clashes and a delayed pace of innovation â if they can build functioning AI infrastructure at all.
Run:aiâs Atlas platform provides a âFoundation for AI Cloudsâ, whether on premises, across public clouds, or at the edge, allowing organizations to have their AI resources on a single, unified platform that supports AI at all stages of development, from building and training models to running inference in production.Customers include Fortune 500 companies as well as cutting-edge AI startups from multiple verticals like finance, automotive, healthcare, and gaming, as well as leading academic AI research centers.
âWe do for AI hardware what VMware and virtualization did for traditional computing â more efficiency, simpler management, greater user productivity. Traditional CPU computing has a rich software stack with many development tools for running applications at scale. AI, however, runs on dedicated hardware accelerators such as GPUs which have few tools to help with their implementation and scaling. With Run:ai Atlas, weâve built a cloud-native software layer that abstracts AI hardware away from data scientists and ML engineers, letting Ops and IT simplify the delivery of compute resources for any AI workload and any AI project.â said Ronen Dar, Run:ai CTO and co-founder.
âAs enterprises in every industry reimagine themselves to become learning systems powered by AI and human talent, there has been a global surge in demand for AI hardware chipsets such as GPUs,â said Lonne Jaffe, ManagingDirector at Insight Partners. âAs the Forrester Wave AI Infrastructure report recently highlighted, Run:ai creates extraordinary value by bringing advanced virtualization and orchestration capabilities to AI chipsets, making training and inference systems run both much faster and more cost-effectively. Because of explosive demand since 2020,Run:ai has almost quadrupled its customer base, and we couldnât be more excited to double down on our partnership with Omri and the incredible Run:AI team as they lean into their momentum and Scale Up.â
You can find coverage of this announcement here:
The Next Platform: https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/03/15/teaching-kubernetes-to-do-fractions-and-multiplication-on-gpus/
VentureBeat: https://venturebeat.com/business/runai-lands-75m-to-dynamically-allocate-hardware-resources-for-ai-training/
Techcrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/15/runai-raises-75m-for-its-ai-optimization-and-orchestration-platform/
Silicon Angle: https://siliconangle.com/2022/03/15/runai-raises-75m-grow-ai-workload-virtualization-platform/
Globes Israel: https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-israeli-ai-infrastructure-co-runai-raises-75m-1001405659
The Marker Israel (Hebrew): https://www.themarker.com/technation/2022-03-15/ty-article/.premium/00000180-5bd1-dc1d-afc2-fbd5fcdc0000
Calcalist Tech Israel: https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/b18orj0115
Geektime (Hebrew): https://www.geektime.co.il/the-avengers-of-the-vc-world-lead-a-75m-funding-round-for-runai/
TechTime (Hebrew): https://techtime.co.il/2022/03/15/runai/
