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Poolside AI

Application

AI coding assistant company building large language models for software development.

Total funding$620M

Valuation—

Employees—

Founded2023

HeadquartersSan Francisco, USA

StatusPrivate

Product

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• poolside AI agent Sold on its own

  Command-line and desktop coding agent that runs poolside's own open-weight models.

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MMicrosoftPublic · $3.7TSiliconANGLE's own coverage names GitHub Copilot as Poolside's direct rival; both are AI coding-assistant products.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeSourced competitorCode with an AI assistantCompare

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Sources

Total funding

Press release · 2 Oct 2024

Poolside's own announcement of its $500M raise (2024-10-02); independent aggregate coverage converges tightly on $620-652M total across all rounds, and no single primary source states a cumulative figure. Kept at $620M, cited to the company's own largest disclosed round, with the tight cross-source clustering noted rather than resolved to false precision.

Valuation

Checked — none published

Checked 2026-08-27 and no citable priced round found. Searched: stockanalysis.com's private-company pages, which footnote each valuation to the announcement that priced it; the company's own newsroom; and named press coverage. The only 2026 figures are entangled: NVIDIA's August 2026 arrangement combines a $6B non-exclusive technology licence, offers to 109 Poolside employees, and a separate $1B investment at a reported $12B pre-money — and the $2B round at $14B that preceded it fell apart in spring 2026. A licence fee is not a valuation, and untangling which part of this is a priced round needs its own look rather than a line in a sweep.

Employees

Checked — none published

Checked 2026-08-27 and no citable figure found. Four sweeps were run and all came back empty for this company: (1) its own /about, /about-us, /company, /careers, /jobs and /team pages, pattern-matched for a self-published headcount; (2) stockanalysis.com's private-company page, which footnotes each figure to its source; (3) its Forbes company profile, which states a headcount and the month it is as of; (4) a targeted web search. Everything the search returned was a LinkedIn-scraping aggregator, and those disagree with each other by wide margins and cite nothing, so they are not used here. The field is null rather than carrying the round guess it held before.

Founded

Wikipedia · 11 Sep 2026

Infobox + History section: "Poolside AI was founded in early 2023 by Jason Warner... and Eiso Kant."

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