Render

Render is a cloud application hosting platform founded in 2018 by Anurag Goel and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company provides infrastructure for deploying web services, static sites, APIs, databases, cron jobs, and background workers, targeting developers and teams seeking a simpler alternative to AWS or Google Cloud.

Render's platform supports automatic deployments from Git repositories, managed PostgreSQL databases, private networking, and persistent disk storage. It is used by individual developers, startups, and engineering teams that want to reduce operational overhead associated with configuring and maintaining cloud infrastructure. The service competes directly with platforms such as Heroku, Railway, and Fly.io.

Render raised a $25 million Series B round in 2021, bringing its total funding to approximately $46 million from investors including General Catalyst and South Park Commons. The company grew significantly following Heroku's discontinuation of its free tier in 2022, which drove a wave of developers to evaluate alternatives. Render employs roughly 50 to 150 people as of the mid-2020s.