# Rescale

> Rescale is a San Francisco-based digital engineering platform that turns high-performance computing into an on-demand cloud utility. Founded in 2011 by ex-Boeing engineer Joris Poort and Adam McKenzie, it gives scientists and engineers at companies like Samsung, Arm, General Motors Motorsports, and the U.S. Department of Defense a single workbench for simulation, AI physics, and multi-cloud orchestration.

- **Founded:** 2011
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Joris Poort (Co-Founder & CEO), Adam McKenzie (Co-Founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** ~240
- **Products:** Rescale Platform, AI Physics OS, Rescale Data Intelligence, Agentic Digital Engineering, Compute Recommendation Engine
- **Notable:** First unicorn in cloud high-performance computing (2022), Y Combinator alumnus (2011), Backed by Bezos, Altman, Branson, Thiel, Dixon, and Graham

## Products & services

- **Rescale Platform** — A full-stack digital engineering platform that orchestrates HPC, simulation software, and data across any cloud.
- **AI Physics OS** — An open environment for training, tuning, validating, and deploying proprietary AI surrogate models that accelerate physics simulations.
- **Rescale Data Intelligence** — Launched October 2025: turns modeling and simulation data into structured knowledge, automating workflows and feeding AI models.
- **Agentic Digital Engineering** — Simulation-native AI agents that handle input validation, troubleshooting, report generation, and hardware selection.
- **Compute Recommendation Engine** — Picks the optimal hardware - CPU, GPU, or specialty - for each simulation, across multi-cloud.

## Achievements

- First unicorn in cloud high-performance computing (2022)
- Y Combinator alumnus (2011)
- Backed by Bezos, Altman, Branson, Thiel, Dixon, and Graham
- CEO Joris Poort honored at Goldman Sachs 2023 Builders and Innovators Summit
- Raised $115M Series D in April 2025, bringing total funding above $260M

## Latest updates

- **2026-05** — Launched agentic digital engineering with simulation-native AI agents.
- **2025-10** — Launched Rescale Data Intelligence for the AI era.
- **2025-04** — Closed $115M Series D led by Applied Ventures and NVIDIA.

## Links

- Website: https://rescale.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rescale
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/rescaleinc
- GitHub: https://github.com/rescale
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@RescaleInc
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/rescaleinc/

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Last updated: 2026-05-23