Railway, a cloud platform designed to help developers deploy applications faster with less operational overhead, has raised $100 million in Series B funding as it looks to scale infrastructure built for an AI-accelerated era of software development. The round was led by TQ Ventures, with participation from FPV Ventures, Redpoint, and Unusual Ventures. Railway said the capital will support its efforts to “make infrastructure invisible,” expand global capacity, grow headcount, and build new developer- and AI-oriented tooling.
Railway is positioning its platform as an alternative to legacy cloud architectures, it argues, which are increasingly strained by faster development cycles and heavier workloads driven by AI. The company said it rebuilt core components of the stack—networking, compute, storage, orchestration software, and hardware—to deliver a “hands-off” hosting experience centered on reliability and performance. Railway also pointed to remaining online during broad outages that affected major cloud providers as evidence of resilience.
The company reported customer outcomes, including a 10x increase in developer velocity and up to 65% cost savings compared with traditional cloud platforms. Railway attributed these economics to operating its own data centers with custom networking and orchestration, and to a usage-based pricing model designed to avoid markups, it says, that are common in legacy cloud offerings.
Railway said its platform now serves more than 2 million users and is adding nearly 200,000 developers per month. It also claimed to be used by 31% of the Fortune 500, alongside customers including Bilt, Profound, Happy Robot, Intuit’s GoCo, TripAdvisor’s Cruise Critic, and MGM Resorts. The company cited 176x revenue growth and 15% month-over-month expansion as indicators of momentum.
With the Series B, Railway plans to accelerate product development to further simplify deployments while supporting advanced use cases for experienced DevOps teams by exposing the “the right amount” of controls for complex environments. The company said it will also continue expanding its marketplace of templates intended to let teams deploy everything from basic services to complex AI systems without additional operational overhead, backed by a zero-trust security model and around-the-clock support.
KEY QUOTES:
“As AI models get better at writing code, more and more people are asking the age-old question; where, and how, do I run my applications? The last generation of cloud primitives were slow and outdated, and now with AI moving everything faster, teams simply can’t keep up. We built Railway to let developers focus on building and creativity, not configuration. We stripped everything down and rebuilt both the software and hardware to make the experience truly seamless, and the response from developers has exceeded anything I imagined.”
“It’s always been our goal that everything should run on Railway. We’ve spent the last five years building quietly, with zero marketing, and somehow millions of developers found us. This round lets us finally show the world our vision of how software should really be built, and we’re excited to supercharge all this with TQ’s unmatched enterprise customer introduction prowess.”
Jake Cooper, Founder and CEO, Railway
“At Bilt, we move fast. We need our tech stack to allow for that in a scalable, safe way. What takes an hour on Railway could take 10x more on a traditional cloud platform. Railway is the fastest, giving us the most seamless, no config system.”
Kartik Aggarwal, Tech Lead, Bilt
“Railway is building the infrastructure layer that will power the next era of software. Jake Cooper is an extraordinary talent under whose leadership Railway’s Zero-Ops architecture has been purpose-built for an AI-native world and is dismantling the legacy systems that have slowed developers down over the past decade.”
Schuster Tanger, Co-founding Partner, TQ Ventures
