Company record
Modal
Updated November 2, 2026 · Presspool
Modal is a cloud built for AI, giving developers primitives for workloads such as low-latency elastic inference. modal.com
Funding
- $355 million Series C, announced May 21, 2026. Led by General Catalyst and Redpoint. Sources: modal.com.
Whether AI names Modal
- On the AI infrastructure map: named or cited in 10 of 50 answers to Presspool's AI infrastructure questions on November 2, 2026 (ChatGPT 3 of 8, Claude 0 of 8, Perplexity 5 of 8, Gemini 1 of 8, Copilot 1 of 8, Google AI Mode 0 of 6, Google AI Overviews 0 of 4). See the map. Of the 54 companies on the map, Modal ranked joint 4th by answers naming or citing it in that sample. The other companies AI names most on AI infrastructure questions: Lambda (17 of 50), Crusoe (13 of 50), Together AI (11 of 50), Fireworks AI (10 of 50), Groq (10 of 50) and LangChain (10 of 50). Most often named in the same answers: Daytona (5), Baseten (4), Fireworks AI (4), Lambda (4), Together AI (4).
- Machine Relations Index: Cited in 27 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026.
Week by week
Answers that named or cited Modal in each weekly sample of Presspool's AI infrastructure questions, by the Monday of the sample week. A row is added every week.
| Week of | AI infrastructure |
|---|---|
| September 21, 2026 | 8 of 39 |
| October 5, 2026 | 14 of 48 |
| October 12, 2026 | 11 of 50 |
| October 19, 2026 | 17 of 56 |
| October 26, 2026 | 13 of 53 |
| November 2, 2026 | 10 of 50 |
Sources AI cites when it names Modal
Presspool asked its 8 AI infrastructure questions on November 2, 2026; 10 of the 50 answers named or cited Modal, on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Copilot. The sites those 10 answers cited most:
- modal.com: 5 of 10 answers
- browser-use.com: 3 of 10 answers
- openai.com: 3 of 10 answers
- baseten.co: 2 of 10 answers
- e2b.dev: 2 of 10 answers
- github.com: 2 of 10 answers
- newmarketpitch.com: 2 of 10 answers
- northflank.com: 2 of 10 answers
- runpod.io: 2 of 10 answers
- upstash.com: 2 of 10 answers
Related records
Also on the AI infrastructure map: Arcade, Baseten, Braintrust, Clockwork.io, Crusoe, Daytona, DeepInfra, Encord, Exa, fal, Fiddler AI, Firecrawl and 41 more on the map.
General Catalyst, which led this round, also led Collective ($40 million Series B, October 29, 2026), Different ($48 million Seed, October 20, 2026), Context.dev ($9M Seed, October 19, 2026), Parloa ($350M Series D, January 15, 2026), General Intuition ($133.7M Seed, October 16, 2025) and Eudia (up to $105M Series A, February 13, 2025). 6 more of its rounds are on its page.
Redpoint, which led this round, is named as an investor in Sonilo ($11 million, round type not disclosed, October 8, 2026) and Ande (more than $52 million Seed and Series A, September 22, 2026).