HPCwire · Reporting
Aug 24, 2026
Vertical + Enterprise · Private company · Growth
Poolside
✓ VerifiedPoolside sits at the seam between frontier-model ambition and enterprise software delivery, using software engineering as its beachhead.
San Francisco / ParisFounded 2023No public API trackedWeekday review target
Editorial intelligence brief
Editorial focus
Released Laguna S 2.1 on July 21, 2026, then introduced Poolside Desktop Assistant on July 28 for macOS, VS Code, and Visual Studio, pairing the assistant with Laguna S 2.1.
Focus: Foundation models, software agents, and enterprise systems for software engineering
Latest funding
$500M
Series B · source-backed
Tracked funding
$500M
Sum of itemized funding events
Latest valuation
Not tracked
No source-backed record
Latest revenue
Not tracked
Growth lifecycle position
Editorially verified updates
What changed
Released Laguna S 2.1 on July 21, 2026, then introduced Poolside Desktop Assistant on July 28 for macOS, VS Code, and Visual Studio, pairing the assistant with Laguna S 2.1.
External coverage of Poolside
Selected by relevance, date and publisher; grouped by story. External reporting is not independently verified by the map. Article dates are publisher timestamps supplied by the discovery feed; quieter profiles may show coverage up to 90 days old.
Last checked Oct 18, 2026.
Bloomberg · Reporting
Aug 21, 2026
Source-backed financial history
Funding and financial history
Funding, valuation, revenue, and debt are kept separate so unlike measurements are never presented as one trend.
Records
1
Sum of recorded funding
$500M
Coverage
partial
Partial history: earlier or intervening rounds may be missing. The sum covers only the announcements recorded here, not lifetime funding. Announced commitments may be paid over time; this is not a cash balance. Dates show announcements or first public reports, which can follow the investment itself.
One funding announcement recorded. More dated rounds are needed to show funding over time.
#1
Series B · $500M
Running tracked total: $500M
#1
Series B · $500M
Running tracked total: $500M
Sources and details for every recorded funding announcement, newest first.
Series B · $500M
$500M Series B.
Product surface
Products and model families
Recent models
Laguna S 2.1Laguna XS 2.1Laguna M.1Laguna XS.2Malibu Agent
Products
Poolside PlatformPoolside ConsolePoolside AgentPoolside Chat
Open weights
Yes
API access
No
Review target
Weekday
Market position
Lifecycle and strategic signals
Research
Preview
Growth
Deployment
Growth: Public access & scaling
Focus
Foundation models, software agents, and enterprise systems for software engineering
Signals
CodingAgentsEnterpriseOpen weights
Taxonomy
Frontier LabsAgentic Coding ToolsCodingCoding agentsVertical + Enterprise
Competitive context
MagicOpenAIAnthropic
Infrastructure & distribution
Where Poolside sits in the AI stack
01
Model layer
5 tracked model families
02
Access layer
Self-hostable weights
03
Market layer
Vertical + Enterprise
Public product surface
Poolside PlatformPoolside ConsolePoolside AgentPoolside Chat
Stack signals
CodingCoding agentsEnterpriseAgentsOpen weights
This section reflects publicly visible product and access signals. Undisclosed GPU, cloud, training, and data-center contracts are not inferred.
Evidence trail
Sources and corrections
Primary and public sources used to verify the structured company profile.
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