Modal

Modal is building the compute layer for the AI revolution—and they've gotten so good at it that running AI models feels like running a simple Python function. They're a serverless platform purpose-built for AI teams, handling all the infrastructure headaches so engineers can just ship. Need GPUs? Modal spins them up in seconds. Training a model across dozens of nodes? They handle the orchestration. Their New York team just closed a Series C, which tells you everything about how the market values what they're doing.

Here's the thing about AI infrastructure: it used to be that every team was building their own cloud setup, managing instances, dealing with provisioning nightmares that could take weeks. Modal said "what if compute just worked?" and AI teams listened. They're powering workloads at scale for companies that can't name-drop (yet), but the trajectory speaks for itself. Serverless is the obvious endgame for AI—the flexibility of cloud with none of the ops drag—and Modal executing on that vision from NYC puts them in the right place at the right time.