Render

Cloud platform enabling developers to build, deploy, and scale apps.

render.com

HQ: San Francisco, CA, USA

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Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Aug 16, 2026

Overview

Render is a cloud application hosting platform for developers, offering a unified place to deploy and run full-stack applications, backend services, databases, cron jobs, and related infrastructure with built-in security and automation.

Primary product

Cloud application hosting / modern cloud platform for application developers

Founded

2018

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Team size

101-250

Work style

Flexible

Industry

Software Development

Sub-industry

Cloud infrastructure / application hosting / PaaS

Offices

525 Brannan St, Suite 300, San Francisco, CA 94107

655 5th Street, San Francisco, CA 94107

180 Sansome, Floor 2, San Francisco, CA 94104

Business model

subscription

usage-based infrastructure services

enterprise software

Funding

Stage

Series C

Total raised

$258M

Latest round

Series C extension · Feb 2026

Latest amount

$100M

Series C extension

Feb 2026 · Georgian

$100M

Series C

Jan 2025 · Georgian

$80M

Series B

Jun 2023 · Bessemer Venture Partners

$50M

Series A

Nov 2021 · Addition

$20M

Seed

Apr 2019 · General Catalyst

$2.3M

People & investors

Leadership

Anurag Goel

Founder and CEO

Nathan Dintenfass

Sr. Director of Product

Sam Taylor

VP of Revenue

Shuting Zhang

VP of Finance and Operations, Interim Talent Leader

Raphael Terrier

Head of Developer Experience

Samia Saleem

Head of Design

Joy Han Kim

Founding Brand Designer

Malika Waller

Founding Technical Sourcer

Elliott Robinson

Board Director

Lisa Kleinsorge

Head of Product Partnerships (Fractional)

Investors

Bessemer Venture Partners

South Park Commons Fund

Work & culture

Public sources emphasize a developer-focused, fast-moving infrastructure company building for AI-native software, with an active engineering and product culture. Specific employee benefits were not clearly public in the sources reviewed.

Work style

Flexible

Compensation

No reliable public compensation bands were found in the reviewed sources.

Product & market

Pricing

Public website pricing details were not successfully extracted in the available searches; Render appears to use a mix of self-serve plans and usage-based infrastructure pricing.

Differentiators

—One platform for backend, frontend, Postgres, cron jobs, and more
—Automated deploys from Git
—Private network by default
—Built-in CDN and DDoS protection
—Positioned as a modern cloud alternative to more complex hyperscalers
—Increasingly positioned for AI-native and agentic workloads

Technology

Git-based auto deploys

global CDN

DDoS protection

private networking

TLS certificates

developer platform infrastructure

Customers

Developers

Software engineering teams

AI-native application builders

Enterprises modernizing application hosting

Competitors

Heroku

AWS

Google Cloud Platform

Azure

Railway

Fly.io

Vercel

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

~$5M-$10M annual revenue (public estimate from third-party source; no official confirmation found)

Estimated monthly visits

7.4M

Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026

Latest news

Render welcomes Oktana as a solution partner

Render blog · Jul 2026

Render announced a partnership with Oktana to help customers build and run applications on Render through a continuous build-and-run engagement.

Render raises $100M at $1.5B valuation

Render blog · Feb 2026

Render announced a $100M Series C extension led by Georgian, valuing the company at $1.5B and bringing total funding to $258M.

Render Raises $100 Million Series C Extension at $1.5 Billion Valuation to Build the Cloud for AI-Native Software

Business Wire · Feb 2026

Announced $100M Series C extension led by Georgian at a $1.5B valuation, bringing total funding to $258M.

Render raises $100 million at $1.5 billion valuation

CNBC · Feb 2026

Covers the new financing and notes Render's growth and customer traction.

Render’s $80M Series C financing

Render blog · Jan 2025

Render announced an $80M Series C led by Georgian, with participation from 01A, avra, Addition, Bessemer Venture Partners, General Catalyst, and South Park Commons Fund.

Jobs and careers at Render

39 jobs at Render

Senior/Staff Data Scientist

On-site

Product & Design

SF or Remote (US/Canada)

1d ago

On-site

Full-time