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Effortless App Infrastructure in Any Cloud: Our $20M Series A

We’re excited to announce that Porter has raised a $20M Series A to provide effortless app infrastructure in any cloud provider. Our round was led by FirstMark Capital with participation from Y Combinator and strategic angels including Dalton Caldwell and Ali Rowghani.

Justin Rhee
January 27, 2026
1 min read

When we started Porter, we had one simple goal: allow startups to stop thinking about cloud infrastructure.

Today, hundreds of the fastest-growing AI companies use Porter to manage hyper-growth infrastructure across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. This includes Series A startups like ModelML and Giga, as well as growth-stage companies like Nooks (Series B), Tennr (Series C), Homelight (Series D), and Getaround (Post-IPO) among many others.

Porter users scale individual clusters in each cloud provider to hundreds of machines and terabytes of RAM without DevOps overhead.

The pattern we've seen is consistent. Many companies start on traditional PaaS platforms like Heroku, Render, or Vercel for velocity, but as they scale, they inevitably hit a graduation point. Performance, cost, and compliance requirements mean that all roads eventually lead to a consolidation of services on the hyperscalers. The migration and ongoing management of that infrastructure is painful, expensive, and distracts from every company’s core competency: their own product.

At Porter, we meet the fastest growing companies where they will inevitably end up: in their own AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure accounts.

Porter users are able to seamlessly manage web apps, workers, jobs, and GPU workloads at true scale anywhere. Infra compliance is built-in for SOC 2 and HIPAA, and our users can oversee multiple single-tenant environments for their own customers using Porter.

We are on a mission to make using the public cloud utterly seamless. This round of funding will enable us to continue expanding the surface of what our platform can manage.

Our team is actively hiring with offices in NY and SF. If you’re interested in managing core infrastructure for the next generation of public companies, or tackling the hardest devX problems, please check out our hiring page. If you’d like to radically simplify the management of your company’s cloud infrastructure, you can deploy now.

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