Company record
Poolside
Updated November 2, 2026 · Presspool
Poolside builds open-weight agentic coding models, including the Laguna models. poolside.ai
Funding
- $500 million Series B, announced October 2, 2024. Led by Bain Capital Ventures. In August 2026 the Newcomer newsletter reported, from a Poolside investor letter, a $1 billion investment by Nvidia alongside a $6 billion licensing deal. Neither company has announced it, so it is not listed as a round. Sources: poolside (PRWeb), techcrunch.com.
Whether AI names Poolside
- On the AI coding map: named or cited in 9 of 53 answers to Presspool's AI coding questions on November 2, 2026 (ChatGPT 2 of 8, Claude 2 of 8, Perplexity 1 of 8, Gemini 2 of 8, Copilot 2 of 8, Google AI Mode 0 of 8, Google AI Overviews 0 of 5). See the map. Of the 32 companies on the map, Poolside ranked joint 8th by answers naming or citing it in that sample. The other companies AI names most on AI coding questions: Cursor (39 of 53), Cognition (27 of 53), Replit (19 of 53), Lovable (14 of 53) and Cline (13 of 53). Most often named in the same answers: Cognition (9), Cursor (7), Lovable (6), Cline (5), Factory (5).
Week by week
Answers that named or cited Poolside in each weekly sample of Presspool's AI coding questions, by the Monday of the sample week. A row is added every week.
| Week of | AI coding |
|---|---|
| September 28, 2026 | 4 of 56 |
| October 5, 2026 | 4 of 48 |
| October 12, 2026 | 6 of 52 |
| October 19, 2026 | 6 of 53 |
| October 26, 2026 | 6 of 55 |
| November 2, 2026 | 9 of 53 |
Sources AI cites when it names Poolside
Presspool asked its 8 AI coding questions on November 2, 2026; 9 of the 53 answers named or cited Poolside, on ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Copilot. The sites those 9 answers cited most:
- landbase.com: 4 of 9 answers
- newmarketpitch.com: 3 of 9 answers
- presspool.ai: 3 of 9 answers
- investing.com: 2 of 9 answers
- openai.com: 2 of 9 answers
- opencurious.com: 2 of 9 answers
- reuters.com: 2 of 9 answers
- shakudo.io: 2 of 9 answers
- startuphub.ai: 2 of 9 answers
- tech-insider.org: 2 of 9 answers
Related records
Also on the AI coding map: Anything, Augment Code, Bilt, Bolt.new, Builder.io, Cline, CodeRabbit, Cognition, Cursor, Emergent, Factory, Greptile and 19 more on the map.
Bain Capital Ventures, which led this round, also led Corridor ($25 million Seed, September 21, 2026). It is also named as an investor in Ande (more than $52 million Seed and Series A, September 22, 2026).