Railway, a San Francisco-based cloud platform that has quietly amassed two million developers without spending a dollar on marketing, announced Thursday that it raised $100 million in a Series B funding round. TQ Ventures led the round, with participation from FPV Ventures , Redpoint , and Unusual Ventures .
“As AI models get better at writing code, more and more people are asking the age-old question: where, and how, do I run my applications?” said Jake Cooper, Railway’s 28-year-old founder and chief executive, in an exclusive interview with VentureBeat.
The funding is a dramatic acceleration for a company that has charted an unconventional path through the cloud computing industry. Railway raised just $24 million in total before this round, including a $20 million Series A from Redpoint in 2022.
Why three-minute deploy times have become unacceptable in the age of AI coding assistants Railway’s pitch rests on a simple observation: the tools developers use to deploy and manage software were designed for a slower era.