Anyscale
Headquarters
San Francisco, CAFounded
2019CEO / Founder
Robert NishiharaEmployees
201-500Funding
Acquired — $259MProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
8.0/10Website
anyscale.com/
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About Anyscale
Anyscale is a San Francisco-based cloud platform company founded in 2019 by Robert Nishihara, Ion Stoica, and Philipp Moritz, researchers who created the open-source Ray distributed computing framework at UC Berkeley. The company commercializes Ray by offering a managed platform that allows data scientists and engineers to scale machine learning training, inference, and data processing workloads across clusters on AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure.
Anyscale's primary product is the Anyscale Platform, which provides managed Ray clusters, job scheduling, and serving infrastructure for deploying large language models and other AI workloads. The platform is used by organizations building and fine-tuning foundation models, running batch inference pipelines, and serving AI applications at scale. Ray itself has broad adoption across the ML community, with users including OpenAI, Spotify, and Instacart, which underpins Anyscale's commercial positioning.
The company raised a $100 million Series C round in 2022, bringing its total funding to approximately $259 million from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, and Intel Capital. Anyscale employs roughly 200 to 400 people as of 2024. The company has grown alongside increased enterprise demand for infrastructure capable of supporting large-scale model training and inference workloads.
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Competitive Landscape
Who Anyscale competes with, and how they differ.
Modal offers serverless, function-based GPU compute with per-second billing and no cluster management, versus Anyscale's Ray-based platform aimed at large, stateful distributed training and serving clusters.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Together AI focuses on GPU cloud infrastructure plus hosted inference and fine-tuning APIs for open models, competing for the same training-and-serving compute budget without Anyscale's Ray-specific programming model.
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Vertex AI is a fully managed, single-cloud ML platform bundled into Google Cloud's ecosystem, whereas Anyscale is a cloud-agnostic layer built specifically around the open-source Ray framework.
2 products reviewed on TopReviewed
Baseten specializes in model deployment and inference serving with its own serving runtime, a narrower scope than Anyscale's end-to-end data processing, training, and serving platform built on Ray.
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Key milestones in Anyscale's history, with sources.
- Acquisition
Acquired by Nscale for a reported $1.65B
Nscale agreed to acquire Anyscale in a deal reported by TechCrunch at roughly $1.65B; Anyscale continues operating under its own brand with its roughly 200 employees joining Nscale, expected to close in H2 2026.
techcrunch.com - Milestone
Keerti Melkote named CEO
Anyscale named Aruba Networks founder Keerti Melkote as CEO, succeeding co-founder Robert Nishihara who shifted focus to product, following a year of 4x revenue growth.
anyscale.com - Funding
Series C extension — additional $99M
Anyscale closed an additional $99M Series C extension co-led by Addition and Intel Capital with Foundation Capital participating, bringing total Series C financing to $199M.
thesaasnews.com - Funding
Series C — $100M at $1B valuation, co-led by a16z and Addition
Anyscale raised $100M in Series C funding at a $1B valuation, co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Addition with NEA, Intel Capital, and Foundation Capital participating, bringing total financing to $160M.
intelcapital.com - Funding
Series B — $40M led by NEA
Anyscale raised a $40M Series B led by New Enterprise Associates, with Andreessen Horowitz, Foundation Capital, and Intel Capital participating, bringing total funding past $60M.
anyscale.com - Funding
Series A — $20.6M led by Andreessen Horowitz
Anyscale announced a $20.6M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, with NEA, Intel Capital, Amplify Partners, 11.2 Capital, and The House Fund participating.
anyscale.com - Founded
Anyscale founded by the creators of Ray at UC Berkeley's RISELab
Robert Nishihara, Philipp Moritz, Ion Stoica, and Michael I. Jordan launched Anyscale to commercialize Ray, the open-source distributed computing framework the team built at UC Berkeley's RISELab.
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