# Poolside

> Poolside is a San Francisco AI lab building foundation models purpose-built for software engineering. Founded in 2023 by former GitHub CTO Jason Warner and serial entrepreneur Eiso Kant, it trains its frontier models (malibu, point) with a technique called Reinforcement Learning from Code Execution Feedback - then deploys the whole stack inside customer environments for Global 2000 enterprises, financial institutions and the public sector.

- **Founded:** 2023
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Jason Warner (Co-founder & CEO), Eiso Kant (Co-founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** ~340 employees
- **Products:** malibu, point, Poolside Assistant, Enterprise deployment stack
- **Notable:** Raised $626M total funding within ~18 months of founding., Brought online a 10,000-GPU Nvidia training cluster - one of the largest in any startup., Strategic distribution deal with AWS Bedrock.

## Products & services

- **malibu** — Poolside's flagship foundation model for complex software engineering: code generation, refactoring, testing, debugging.
- **point** — A smaller, faster model in the Poolside family tuned for low-latency completion and on-prem inference.
- **Poolside Assistant** — Enterprise AI assistant with IDE plugins (VS Code, JetBrains, Visual Studio, Coder), a CLI, chat, inline edits, test generation and repository-wide natural language search.
- **Enterprise deployment stack** — Models, training infrastructure and assistant deployed inside the customer's VPC or on-prem; available on Amazon Bedrock and EC2.

## Achievements

- Raised $626M total funding within ~18 months of founding.
- Brought online a 10,000-GPU Nvidia training cluster - one of the largest in any startup.
- Strategic distribution deal with AWS Bedrock.
- Reached unicorn status at $3B in 2024; reportedly $12B in 2025.
- Shipped proprietary foundation models (malibu, point) trained with Reinforcement Learning from Code Execution Feedback.

## Latest updates

- **2025-10** — Nvidia announces strategic investment of up to $1B, valuing Poolside at roughly $12B.
- **2024-12** — Strategic agreement with AWS announced; models available via Amazon Bedrock and EC2.
- **2024-10** — Closes $500M Series B led by Bain Capital Ventures at $3B valuation.

## Links

- Website: https://poolside.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/poolsideai
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/poolsideai
- GitHub: https://github.com/poolsideai

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Last updated: 2026-05-23