Layoff
Sep 2024Fly.io said it laid off about 40 employees in a restructuring; the company said devrel and growth were hit disproportionately, core engineering was mostly not, and affected employees got four months of severance.
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Overview
Fly.io is a remote-first developer cloud platform that runs apps, databases, and AI-agent workloads close to users on globally distributed infrastructure. It combines hardware-virtualized Fly Machines, private networking, and a strong CLI/developer-experience layer, and in July 2026 the company re-focused around “Sprites,” persistent Linux computers for agents.
Primary product
Fly Machines and Sprites: globally distributed compute for apps and AI agents.
Founded
2017
Headquarters
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Team size
40-50
Work style
Remote
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
Developer-focused cloud infrastructure / application server software
Offices
321 N Clark St, Chicago, Illinois (HQ)
2045 W. Grand Ave Ste B, Chicago, Illinois
2045 W. Grand Avenue, Chicago, 60612, United States
Business model
usage-based infrastructure billing
paid support subscriptions
enterprise support and SLA contracts
managed services add-ons (e.g., Managed Postgres)
Funding
Stage
Series D
Total raised
$135.6M
Latest round
Series D · Jul 2026
Latest amount
$25M
People & investors
Leadership
VP of Engineering
VP of Product
VP of Finance
Founders
Founder; former CEO; current board/advisor role
Co-founder
Co-founder; Developer
Work & culture
Remote-first and globally distributed, with a technical, engineer-led culture. Hiring is intentionally nontraditional: Fly favors work-sample challenges over résumé-driven interviews and says it is skeptical of conventional tech-industry hiring rituals.
Work style
Remote
Compensation
Fly says it uses the same USA-based compensation schedule worldwide, so pay is location-agnostic rather than locally adjusted.
Benefits
location-agnostic compensation
unlimited PTO
professional development stipend
work-from-home stipend
coworking stipend
medical reimbursement for reproductive-health travel
medical reimbursement for gender-affirming-care travel
Product & market
Pricing
Usage-based pay-as-you-go billing for provisioned resources, with reserved-machine discounts and separate paid support tiers.
Differentiators
- —runs workloads close to users across global regions
- —hardware-virtualized Fly Machines based on Firecracker
- —private networking and granular routing by default
- —persistent Linux computers ('Sprites') for AI agents
- —developer-centric CLI and low-friction deploy workflow
- —per-second / usage-based billing
Technology
Rust
Go
Ruby
Elixir
Linux
Firecracker
WireGuard
GraphQL
Stripe
React
MongoDB
Kubernetes
SQLite
Customers
Supabase
Upstash
Tigris Data
Firecrawl
Kilocode
Plastic Labs
Competitors
Heroku
Netlify
Vercel
Render
Railway
Cloudflare
AWS
DigitalOcean
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
Public estimates vary from about $6.5M to $11.2M ARR.
Estimated monthly visits
978.4K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Signals & risks
Latest news
Fly blog · Jul 2026
Official announcement that Fly.io is re-focusing on Sprites, raising more money, and naming Scott Johnston as CEO while Kurt Mackey moves into an advisory role.
GlobeNewswire · Jul 2026
Press release on the $25M Series D, new CEO Scott Johnston, and the company's AI-agent infrastructure strategy.
Axios Pro · Jul 2026
Business press coverage of the new funding and CEO change.
TechCrunch · Dec 2024
TechCrunch's layoff archive notes Fly.io reportedly laid off around 40 employees during a restructuring effort in 2024.
Fly blog · Jun 2023
Official post describing the $70M Series C led by EQT Ventures and prior funding.
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