Ollama, the open-source platform reaches 8.9 million month-to-month lively customers and introduces a hybrid cloud tier billed by GPU computation time.
On 9 July 2026, open-source AI platform Ollama introduced a $65 million Sequence B funding spherical led by Concept Ventures, bringing its whole capital to $88 million. Current institutional traders Benchmark, 8VC, Y Combinator, Tempo Capital, 49 Palms, and GTMFund participated, alongside angel traders together with Solomon Hykes, Aaron Katz, and Spencer Kimball.
The platform has 8.9 million month-to-month lively builders, representing a twofold enhance since January 2026. Operated by a 14-person staff, the platform registers roughly a million new installs per week and is utilized by builders inside 85% of Fortune 500 firms throughout sectors reminiscent of healthcare, finance, and authorities.
Based by Jeffrey Morgan and Michael Chiang, the software program permits builders to find, obtain, and run open-weight AI fashions on native {hardware} through a single command. The repository has amassed over 176,000 GitHub stars and connects to 67,000 community-developed integrations. Ollama additionally maintains distribution partnerships with {hardware} producers (NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, Qualcomm) and AI mannequin builders (reminiscent of Meta, DeepMind, Mistral, and DeepSeek) to supply mannequin compatibility upon launch.
The desktop software program stays free to make use of. To deal with bigger fashions that exceed native {hardware} constraints, the corporate gives a premium hybrid cloud workspace priced as much as $100 per thirty days. Slightly than utilizing the normal token-based pricing fashions frequent amongst proprietary AI API suppliers, this cloud service payments customers based mostly on lively GPU computation time.