Railway Corp
To build the cloud computing stack that unburdens developers, allowing them to focus more on what matters. Railway aims to unleash a new golden age of software by reducing shipping friction to zero, making it trivial for engineers to deploy code without thinking about servers, AWS, or YAML.
Founding Story
Railway was founded in 2020 to address the infrastructure bottleneck that makes deploying even simple applications difficult without deep DevOps knowledge. Jake Cooper started building the platform after leaving Uber, frustrated by how complicated it was to deploy code. He aimed to create a system that allows engineers to automatically receive industry best practices for building and deploying apps, making infrastructure invisible rather than just easier. The platform was released publicly in 2021.
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Leadership
Founders
Jake Cooper
Started coding at age 13, learning C++, Visual Basic, and jQuery. As a 14-year-old, he made over $10,000 trading virtual hats online. Studied engineering at the University of Victoria (2013-2017). Worked remotely at Wolfram Alpha for two years focusing on developer experience (Linting, Docker, and Continuous Integration). Later worked at Bloomberg and then at Uber scaling infrastructure for Jump bikes and scooters before the project was sold to Lime. Founded Railway in 2020 at age 22-23.
Executive Team
Jake Cooper
Founder and CEO
Started coding at age 13. Previously software engineer at Wolfram Alpha (2 years, focusing on DX), Bloomberg, and Uber (scaling Jump bikes/scooters infrastructure). Founded Railway in 2020 at age ~23. Now 28 years old.
Mark Imbriaco
Head of Engineering
Over 20 years in the Internet industry. Previously at 37signals/Basecamp (designed and managed infrastructure), DigitalOcean, Epic Games (Tech Director of DevOps), and Pivotal (helping customers adopt DevOps practices).
Business Model
Revenue Model
Usage-based pricing model where customers pay by the second for active resources consumed (CPU, memory, storage, egress). Revenue is generated through: (1) Monthly subscription fees for specific tiers (Trial, Hobby, Pro, Enterprise), (2) Usage charges above included credit amounts, (3) Enterprise add-ons including dedicated VMs, HIPAA BAAs, extended log history, and support SLOs, (4) Template marketplace revenue sharing (25% to template creators), (5) Partnership program and affiliate referrals.
Pricing Tiers
No credit card required. Limits: 5 projects (1 after trial), 3 services per project, 1 vCPU/0.5GB RAM per service, 10-minute build timeout, 3-day log retention
For personal projects and indie hackers. 50 projects, 50 services per project, 48 vCPU/48GB RAM per service, 10 replicas, 40-minute build timeout, 7-day log retention, community support
For professional developers and production teams. 100 projects, 100 services per project, 1,000 vCPU/1TB RAM per service, 40 replicas, 90-minute build timeout, 30-day log retention, priority support, concurrent global regions, granular access control
For teams requiring large scale, SLAs, and compliance. Unlimited projects/services, 2,400 vCPU/2.4TB RAM per service, 50 replicas, 18-month audit logs, 90-day log history, support SLOs, dedicated Slack channel, SSO. Add-ons: 90-day logs ($200/mo), HIPAA BAAs ($1,000/mo), Enterprise support ($2,000/mo), Dedicated VMs ($10,000/mo)
Memory: $0.00000386 per GB/sec, CPU: $0.00000772 per vCPU/sec, Volumes: $0.00000006 per GB/sec, Egress: $0.05 per GB, Object Storage: $0.015 per GB-month (free egress)
Target Markets
- Individual developers and hobbyists
- Indie hackers
- Fast-growing startups (Series C/D stage)
- Professional developers
- Production engineering teams
- Fortune 500 companies (31% use Railway)
- Web application deployment
- API backends and microservices
- Background workers and job queues
- Production databases for velocity and iteration
- AI/ML workloads and AI pen testing agents
- Real-time applications (WebSockets, chat)
- Bilt
- Intuit
- TripAdvisor
- MGM Resorts
History & Milestones
Raised $100M Series B led by TQ Ventures; reached 2 million users, 2 million live services, serving over 100 billion requests per month, used by 31% of Fortune 500 companies
Acquired and migrated to Railway.com domain (from Railway.app)
Railway V3 released during Launch Week 02 - faster and cheaper platform
Launched Railway Partnership Program with template marketplace
Reached over 1.7 million users
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