AI News/Wire summary
Modal crosses $1B annualized run rate in $750M Series D round
Key points
- Series D valued Modal at $15.75B, led by Accel, per the company's announcement.
- Since its Series C, Modal's usage has tripled and revenue has grown more than 15x year over year.
- Its Sandboxes product reportedly reached a $300M run rate on its own, with close to 3 billion sandboxes spun up.
- Sandboxes serve background agents, reinforcement learning and vibecoding platforms, and reportedly scale to a million concurrent.
Why it matters for marketers: Content teams selling into agent builders can point to Modal's reported sandbox traction as evidence of demand for agent execution infrastructure.
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