Startup profile for Rescale: latest funding, latest known valuation, total disclosed funding, investors, status, sources, and why the company is interesting. Part of the Venture Capital Tracker startup directory.
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Rescale funding, valuation and investors

High-performance computing cloud for engineering simulation and AI workloads.

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Funding, valuation & investors

Answer-first snapshot

Latest funding

Series D

$115M · April 2025

Latest known valuation

Not publicly disclosed

Total disclosed equity funding

$115M

Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.

Current status

private

growth · San Francisco, California, USA

Investors in latest funding

Other: Applied Ventures

Sources: latest funding Last verified: 2026-07-25

Overview

Rescale provides a cloud platform to run engineering simulations (CFD, FEA) and AI workloads on multi-cloud HPC infrastructure with job scheduling and compliance controls. Founded by Joris Poort and Adam McKenzie (YC W12), it serves aerospace, automotive, and life sciences R&D. Series D ($115M, Apr 2025) included Applied Ventures and NVIDIA; Founders Fund, Khosla, and First Round were earlier backers. a16z lists Rescale on portfolio.

Why Rescale is interesting

Y Combinator-born HPC cloud — $115M Series D (2025) with NVIDIA Applied Ventures as aerospace/automotive R&D moves to burst GPU/CPU simulation.

Product & use cases

Rescale aggregates AWS, Azure, GCP HPC instances with simulation software licenses (Ansys, etc.) and workflow automation for engineers.

  • Cloud burst CFD/FEA for automotive design
  • Pharma molecular simulation at scale
  • AI training on engineering datasets
  • Replace on-prem HPC clusters with pay-per-job cloud

Key facts

  • Series D (Apr 2025): $115M with Applied Ventures, NVIDIA — Rescale press
  • YC W12 alumni
  • HPC cloud for aerospace, auto, pharma
  • Prior backers: Founders Fund, Khosla, First Round

Funding history (newest first)

Series D

2025-04 $115M
  • Applied Ventures (participant)

Source: https://rescale.com/news/rescale-secures-115-million-to-accelerate-innovation-with-ai-driven-digital-engineering/

Investors in our directory

Funds linked from Rescale's profile — open a fund page for stage focus and related deal articles.

Andreessen Horowitz Khosla Ventures Founders Fund First Round

Competitive landscape

Edge: Multi-cloud orchestration plus software vendor partnerships — reduces friction for regulated engineering workloads.

Engineering simulation cloud growing as on-prem clusters age. Rescale must compete with hyperscaler native HPC and vendor cloud offerings (Ansys Cloud).

  • AWS ParallelCluster incumbent

    DIY cloud HPC on AWS.

  • Microsoft Azure HPC incumbent

    Enterprise HPC on Azure.

  • Penguin Solutions adjacent

    HPC infrastructure provider.

Notable stories

  • Rescale positioned at intersection of traditional HPC and AI-driven digital engineering as carmakers reduced physical wind tunnel tests.

Industries

Infrastructure & Cloud Enterprise SaaS AI & Machine Learning Deep Tech

FAQs about Rescale

Practical answers founders, operators, and investors typically search for.

Rescale cloud platform runs engineering simulations and HPC/AI workloads on multi-cloud infrastructure.
Joris Poort and Adam McKenzie; Y Combinator W12.
Founders Fund (/fund/founders-fund), Khosla (/fund/khosla-ventures), First Round (/fund/first-round) early; a16z (/fund/andreessen-horowitz) on portfolio. Series D included NVIDIA-related investors.
April 2025 — $115M per Rescale press.
Rescale adds simulation software integration and multi-cloud scheduling vs raw AWS infrastructure.
Aerospace, automotive, energy, life sciences R&D.
$115M Series D plus prior rounds — total exceeds $200M per industry reports.
Yes — AI-driven digital engineering expanded in 2025 positioning.
San Francisco, California.
Private; profitability not publicly disclosed.
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