Modal Labs, Inc.

Modal Labs, Inc. is a technology company founded in 2021 by Erik Bernhardsson and Akshat Bubna, with its headquarters located in New York, New York. The company operates a serverless cloud platform that allows developers to write Python code locally and execute it at scale on managed infrastructure, originally built to address gaps the founders experienced while scaling machine-learning systems at previous roles.

Business/Product Breakdown

Modal Labs, Inc. provides a code-first platform where every aspect of cloud execution?from container images to hardware selection?is expressed as Python functions decorated with simple stubs. The core product, Modal Functions, turns any Python function into an instantly scalable endpoint with sub-second cold starts and automatic horizontal scaling across CPU, GPU, or TPU resources. Modal Containers extend this model to long-running or stateful workloads, offering isolated execution environments that mount code, secrets, and cloud volumes without manual Dockerfiles. Modal Volumes deliver a high-throughput, globally replicated file system optimized for machine-learning datasets and checkpoints. Modal Queue and Modal Dict provide distributed primitives for job orchestration and shared state. The platform includes a unified dashboard for logs, metrics, and traces, plus a CLI that synchronizes local changes to the cloud in real time. All components are accessible via a single Python SDK and billed by the millisecond only for resources consumed.

a company operates a serverless cloud platform that allows developers to write Python code locally and execute it at scale on managed infrastructure, originally built to address gaps the founders experienced while scaling machine-learning systems at previous roles, raises $355MM Series C from General Catalyst Partners.
