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Modal

HQ New York, USFounded 2021series aWebsite @modal_labs
Composite score
67.8
rank #10 · risers

#10 Riser. Headcount up 6% over the last 90 days.

Headcount
103
0.0%
90d change
+6.2%
Funding events (90d)
0
3 all-time tracked
Layoff events (90d)
0

Signals

source: PDL v25
Inferred revenue
$50M-$100M
PDL estimate
Revenue / employee
$728k
midpoint ÷ headcount
12-month turnover
27.3%
high — churn risk
Average tenure
1.1 yrs
Time since last raise
8 mo
recent raise

Hiring flow · Modal

source: PDL v25

Headcount by role

12-month growth · PDL v25
Engineering
68
+143%
Marketing
5
+150%
Human Resources
4
+300%
Analyst
3
0%
Sales
2
+100%
Advisory
2
0%
Creative
2
+100%
Operations
2
0%
Other
1

In the news

relevance ≥ 6 · last 180 days
  1. Hugging Face6d ago
    Job Searcher

    Modal's infrastructure used for LoRA SFT training on A100, but article focuses on job-search model architecture.

Events

Funding · series b · $87M
9mo ago
Funding · series a · $16M
3y ago
Funding · seed · $7M
4y ago

Score history

2026-06-08
67.8
rank #10
2026-06-01
67.8
rank #10
2026-05-25
67.8
rank #10
2026-05-18
62.8
rank #10
2026-05-11
59.5
rank #10
2026-05-04
59.8
rank #11
2026-04-27
74.7
rank #8
2026-04-20
72.9
rank #8
2026-04-13
72.9
rank #9
2026-04-06
72.9
rank #9
2026-03-30
67.9
rank #14
2026-03-23
79.6
rank #7