Company record
Runpod
Updated November 2, 2026 · Presspool
Runpod is an AI developer cloud where developers build, train, fine-tune, deploy and scale AI workloads. runpod.io
Funding
- $100 million Series A, announced June 24, 2026. Led by Summit Partners. Sources: runpod.io.
Whether AI names Runpod
- On the AI infrastructure map: named or cited in 6 of 50 answers to Presspool's AI infrastructure questions on November 2, 2026 (ChatGPT 3 of 8, Claude 2 of 8, Perplexity 1 of 8, Gemini 0 of 8, Copilot 0 of 8, Google AI Mode 0 of 6, Google AI Overviews 0 of 4). See the map. Of the 54 companies on the map, Runpod ranked joint 12th 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), LangChain (10 of 50) and Modal (10 of 50). Most often named in the same answers: Lambda (5), Baseten (4), Together AI (4), Crusoe (3), Fireworks AI (3).
- Machine Relations Index: Cited in 121 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026.
Week by week
Answers that named or cited Runpod 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 | 2 of 39 |
| October 5, 2026 | 2 of 48 |
| October 12, 2026 | 4 of 50 |
| October 19, 2026 | 4 of 56 |
| October 26, 2026 | 5 of 53 |
| November 2, 2026 | 6 of 50 |
Sources AI cites when it names Runpod
Presspool asked its 8 AI infrastructure questions on November 2, 2026; 6 of the 50 answers named or cited Runpod, on ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity. The sites those 6 answers cited most:
- runpod.io: 4 of 6 answers
- openai.com: 3 of 6 answers
- baseten.co: 2 of 6 answers
- modal.com: 2 of 6 answers
- newmarketpitch.com: 2 of 6 answers
- together.ai: 2 of 6 answers
- agentjesse.ai: 1 of 6 answers
- amazon.com: 1 of 6 answers
- brex.com: 1 of 6 answers
- c-sharpcorner.com: 1 of 6 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.