Organisation
Poolside
Foundation models for software engineering, sold with on-premises deployment for regulated industries.
Poolside is a US company founded in 2023 by Jason Warner, a former chief technology officer of GitHub, and the software entrepreneur Eiso Kant, to build foundation models specialised for software engineering. It trains on large code datasets with reinforcement learning from code execution and offers air-gapped, on-premises deployment aimed at regulated industries such as banking and defence. In October 2025 Nvidia said it would invest up to $1bn in the company, lifting its reported valuation to about $12bn, up from $3bn a year earlier.
- Category
- Frontier & foundation-model labs
- Founded
- 2023
- HQ
- San Francisco, US
- Funding
- Nvidia to invest up to $1bn at ~$12bn valuation (Oct 2025)
- Key people
- Jason Warner, Eiso Kant