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Erik Bernhardsson

Unicorn founder

Founder at Modal

New York, New York, United States

FoundedModal$4.7B

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Daniel PosnerunlockedErik: together at D. E. Shaw & Co. (2007)
×6Erik: together at D. E. Shaw & Co.
×5Erik: together at Spotify

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Erik Bernhardsson is the founder and CEO of Modal Labs, which builds infrastructure for data teams that handles containerization, deployment, scaling, and resource management for workloads such as GPU-based model deployment, cron jobs, and large computational tasks. From 2015 to 2020, he led the engineering team at Better, growing it from 1 to 300 engineers, and prior to that spent roughly seven years at Spotify, primarily building its music recommendation system. He holds a gold medal from the International Olympiad in Informatics and writes about technology, data, and management on his blog.

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Abstraction CapitalKansas City · $50K – $400K checksAccelPalo Alto · $1.6M – $70M checks · since 2026Amplify PartnersMenlo Park · $500K – $5M checks · since 2025AntiSan Juan · $250K – $30M checksBain Capital VenturesBoston · $1M – $100M checks · since 2026CreandumSan Francisco · $216K – $8.6M checksDimension CapitalSan Francisco · $1M – $10M checksEastlink Capital PartnersMenlo Park · $100K – $5M checksEnsemble VCAustin · since 2024ESSENCE VCBothell · since 2022Essence Venture CapitalSeattle · $10K – $10M checksFirestreak VenturesGeneral CatalystSan Francisco · $30M checks · since 2026Lachy Groomsince 2022Learn CapitalAustin · $100K – $20M checks · since 2024Left Lane CapitalNew York · $5M – $75M checks · since 2024Lux CapitalNew York · $100K – $100M checks · since 2023Menlo VenturesSan Francisco · $1M – $20M checks · since 2026Redpoint VenturesWoodside · $100K – $10M checks · since 2025SignalFireSan Francisco · $250K – $15M checks · since 2024The Raba PartnershipCape Town · $50K – $5M checks · since 2023Transpose Platform ManagementSan FranciscoZero Prime VenturesSan Francisco · $500K – $1.5M checks

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Experience

  1. Modal LabsCEOcurrent2021 — presentNew York, United States
  2. Better.comChief Technology Officer2015 — 2021Greater New York City Area
  3. SpotifyEngineering Manager2011 — 2015Greater New York City Area
  4. Graham Capital ManagementAssociate, High Frequency Trading2011Rowayton, CT
  5. SpotifyEngineering Manager2009 — 2011Stockholm, Sweden
  6. SpotifySoftware Engineer Intern2008Stockholm, Sweden
  7. D. E. Shaw & Co.Intern Developer2007
  8. Google Switzerland GmbHIntern Software Engineer2006 — 2007
  9. TDC Song ABDeveloper2005 — 2006

Skills & more

Banger ML infraMachine LearningPythonC++AlgorithmsHadoopMapReduceCRecommender SystemsCollaborative FilteringStatisticsJava
+9 moreOpen SourceBig DataDistributed SystemsProgrammingScalabilityJavaScriptSoftware DevelopmentLinuxGit

Languages German · Swedish

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Who is Erik Bernhardsson?
Erik Bernhardsson is the founder and CEO of Modal Labs, which builds infrastructure for data teams that handles containerization, deployment, scaling, and resource management for workloads such as GPU-based model deployment, cron jobs, and large computational tasks. From 2015 to 2020, he led the engineering team at Better, growing it from 1 to 300 engineers, and prior to that spent roughly seven years at Spotify, primarily building its music recommendation system. He holds a gold medal from the International Olympiad in Informatics and writes about technology, data, and management on his blog.
Where does Erik Bernhardsson work?
Erik Bernhardsson is Founder of Modal.
What companies did Erik Bernhardsson found?
Erik Bernhardsson founded Modal.
Where did Erik Bernhardsson go to school?
Erik Bernhardsson studied at KTH Royal Institute of Technology (M. Sc., Physics); Technische Universität Berlin (Physics, Mathematics); Danderyds Matematikgymnasium (Secondary School, Science).

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