Rescale
Unicorn · $1BYC W12San Francisco, US · Founded 2011 · Delaware corporation · 250 employees · Hiring · 31 known investors
Rescale provides cloud-based engineering and R&D platform with simulation, modeling, and digital engineering tools for enterprise engineering teams across multiple industries. The platform offers pre-configured workflows, software integrations, and enterprise security controls to accelerate innovation and discovery in engineering and scientific research.
Also known as Rescale, Inc.
Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (W12)
Rescale was founded in 2011 by Joris Poort and Adam McKenzie.
Board

Investors · 31
Also in the syndicate · 6
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$173.2M disclosed across 4 of 8 rounds · 2015–2025
- Undisclosed amountSeries DApr 2025
Applied Ventures, Atika Capital, Foxconn, Hanwha Asset Management Deeptech Venture Fund, Hitachi Ventures, NEC Orchestrating Future Fund, NVIDIA, Prosperity7, SineWave Ventures, Translink Capital, University of Michigan, Y Combinator
Source ↗ - $115MraisedApr 2025 · 2 sources
Applied Materials, Nvidia
Source ↗
▶$29.3MraisedJan 2020 · 13 investors · Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Gregorius PoortExecutive Officer, Director
- Adam McKenzieExecutive Officer, Director
- Samuel PillingExecutive Officer
- Yanev SuissaDirector
- Toshiya OtaniDirector
- Offering amount
- $50M
- Amount sold
- $29.3M
- First sale
- Jan 2020
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
▶$17.4MraisedMar 2018 · 8 investors · Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Gregorius PoortExecutive Officer, Director
- Adam McKenzieDirector
- Toshiya OtaniDirector
- Yanev SuissaDirector
- Offering amount
- $25M
- Amount sold
- $17.4M
- First sale
- Feb 2018
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
▶$11.5MraisedMay 2016 · 5 investors · Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Adam McKenzieDirector
- Toshiya OtaniDirector
- Gregorius PoortExecutive Officer, Director
- Offering amount
- $13.5M
- Amount sold
- $11.5M
- First sale
- Apr 2016
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware, 2012
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Rescale provides a cloud-based digital engineering platform that unifies high-performance computing, modeling and simulation, workflow automation and AI-based methods for engineering and scientific R&D teams. The platform supplies elastic cloud infrastructure that scales with demand and automatically optimizes hardware configurations, together with a library of pre-configured simulation and AI applications intended to remove setup and configuration work. A unified modeling and simulation environment provides workflow orchestration across the simulation stack.
Beyond compute and simulation execution, Rescale offers agentic engineering capabilities in which software agents handle orchestration, monitoring and first-pass analysis of expert workflows, and an "AI Physics" operating system that automates steps from data preparation through model deployment to turn existing simulation data into surrogate models producing predictions in milliseconds. Additional platform functions cover HPC cloud bursting and migration, GPU acceleration, financial management and compute cost optimization, security and compliance management, simulation software and license management, cloud and hardware resource orchestration, simulation data and workflow management, and building custom AI/ML models for engineering and scientific research. Published product content includes predictive-maintenance digital twin workflows linking simulation, Python and machine learning, multi-stage computational chemistry workflows, automated CAD-to-CFD design loops with data lake integration, and a Simulation Guide Agent that surfaces simulation guidance from technical documentation, user guides and templates.
Business model
Rescale sells access to a platform combining cloud compute and storage, pre-configured simulation and AI applications, and workflow and data management tooling, positioning itself as the orchestration layer over an organization's digital engineering stack, including application and simulation-software license management and compute spend tracking and optimization.
Traction
Publicly cited platform-scale figures include over 180 supported hardware architectures, a library of more than 1,250 pre-configured HPC and AI applications and more than 1,000 audited security controls. Marketed outcome claims include 78% reduction in R&D cycle time, four to eight times more design candidates explored, and over 65% optimization of full-stack spend.
Latest developments
Recent platform content centers on AI-oriented capabilities: a Simulation Guide Agent that delivers workflow-specific simulation guidance drawn from technical documentation and templates, predictive maintenance digital twin workflows connecting simulation, Python and machine learning, multi-stage computational chemistry workflows, and automated CAD-to-CFD design loops integrated with data lakes. A featured customer story covers McLaren Automotive's use of AI physics and agentic digital engineering.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market
Market position
Rescale positions its offering as a unified alternative to fragmented engineering tools and manual processes, framing traditional simulation as insufficient on its own and emphasizing AI-assisted simulation, connected engineering data and shared, AI-augmented expertise.
Technology
The platform layers elastic cloud HPC infrastructure, a catalog of more than 1,250 pre-configured and tuned HPC and AI software applications and over 180 specialized hardware architectures, with automated configuration selection and resource orchestration. On top of this, Rescale runs a unified modeling and simulation environment with workflow orchestration, agentic engineering components that automate orchestration, monitoring and first-pass analysis, and an AI Physics operating system that converts existing simulation data into surrogate models for near-instant predictions. The platform also supports integration of custom code (for example Python) and machine learning models into simulation workflows, data lake connectivity, GPU-accelerated computing and visualization, and more than 1,000 independently tested and audited security controls.
Go-to-market
Direct enterprise positioning organized around industry verticals and use cases such as HPC cloud bursting and migration, GPU acceleration, cost optimization and security and compliance, supported by a content program of blog posts, technical articles, webinars and customer case studies.
Enterprise engineering, R&D and research organizations in aerospace, automotive, energy, government and defense, higher education, life sciences, manufacturing and semiconductors. Customer stories referenced include McLaren Automotive, described as operationalizing AI physics and agentic digital engineering.
Compiled by commissioned research from 6 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Founder mafia
2 people who came through Rescale went on to found or lead other companies.
Competitors · 6
by search overlapCompanies competing with Rescale for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
Timeline · 3
launches, deals, and filingsRescale announced a $115 million Series D with participation from Applied Ventures, Atika Capital, Foxconn, Hanwha Asset Management Deeptech Venture Fund, Hitachi Ventures, NEC Orchestrating Future Fund, NVIDIA, Prosperity7, SineWave Ventures, Translink Capital, University of Michigan and Y Combinator, bringing total funding raised to over $260 million.
$115M source ↗
As of 2015, Rescale established an HPC network enabling hybrid and multi-cloud operations across major cloud service providers and on-premises data centers.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
Legal entities · 1
corporate structureIn the news
Rescale reels in $32 million Series B to bring high performance computing to cloud | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com · Jul 2018▸Research sources · 6
primary sources listed
- Rescalerescale.com · web
- Rescale raises $115m in Series D roundfinance.yahoo.com · web
6 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Rescale do?
- Rescale operates a cloud digital engineering platform combining HPC, simulation, agentic engineering and AI physics.
- Who founded Rescale?
- Rescale was founded by Joris Poort, Adam McKenzie in 2011.
- Who are Rescale's investors?
- Rescale's investors include DCVC (Data Collective), Ff Venture Capital, Flucas Ventures, Hitachi Ventures, Keen Venture Partners, M12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund), Nautilus Ventures Management Company (Us), Llc, Prosperity7 Ventures and 17 more.
- How much funding has Rescale raised?
- Rescale has disclosed $173.2M raised across 4 of its 8 known rounds.
- Where is Rescale headquartered?
- Rescale is headquartered in San Francisco, US.







