Modal

Modal is a serverless computing platform founded in 2019 by Erik Bernhardsson, headquartered in San Francisco. The platform enables developers to run Python functions and containerized workloads on cloud infrastructure without managing servers. Modal abstracts away infrastructure complexity, offering a developer-friendly interface for deploying, scaling, and managing cloud functions with built-in parallelization and GPU support. The company targets data scientists, machine learning engineers, and backend developers seeking simpler alternatives to managing traditional cloud infrastructure or writing complex serverless configurations.