Release
Release provides high-performance, secure, and scalable infrastructure for AI model deployment and automated development environments.
At a Glance
- AI Startups
- Enterprise DevOps Teams
- SaaS Engineering Organizations
AI Tools by Release
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Ephemeral Environments for Pull Requests
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Latest News
Release AI adds support for DeepSeek-R1 and latest Llama 3.3 models.
Creating Private AI Environments with Release AI.
Release joins NVIDIA Inception to bring AI environments tailored for every developer.
Release raises $20M Series A led by CRV to automate staging environments.
Products & Services
Automated environment provisioning platform that allows developers to spin up full-stack, production-like environments for testing and development.
A high-performance managed AI model inference service providing sub-100ms latency, auto-scaling, and secure private networking for enterprise AI deployments.
Market Position
Positions itself as a faster, more secure alternative to generic cloud providers for AI model hosting, with a focus on ease of use for developers.
Leadership
Founders
Tommy McClung
Co-founder and CEO. Previously CTO at TrueCar (Nasdaq: TRUE). Co-founder and CEO of Car-Mercial (acquired by TrueCar). Co-founder of BuildOnline (acquired by Sword Group). Y Combinator alumnus (S09, W20).
Erik Landerholm
Co-founder and CTO. Previously VP of Engineering at TrueCar. Worked as an engineer and leader at Car-Mercial. Deep expertise in DevOps and infrastructure automation.
David Giffin
Co-founder. Previously VP of Engineering and Software Architect at TrueCar. Extensive experience in building scalable cloud architectures.
Executive Team
Tommy McClung
Co-founder & CEO
Former CTO of TrueCar and serial entrepreneur.
Erik Landerholm
Co-founder & CTO
Infrastructure and DevOps expert, former VP Eng at TrueCar.
Board of Directors
Founding Story
Founded by former TrueCar executives who experienced the pain of managing complex staging environments, the team initially built an Environments-as-a-Service platform before expanding into high-performance AI model hosting.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Usage-based (pay-as-you-go) pricing for GPU hours and infrastructure usage.
Pricing Tiers
Includes 5 free GPU hours for experimentation.
Scalable infrastructure with SOC 2 compliance and expert ML support.
Target Markets
- AI Startups
- Enterprise DevOps Teams
- SaaS Engineering Organizations
- Real-time AI chatbots and assistants
- Automated code generation
- Computer vision image and video analysis
- High-performance RAG and search applications
- Ephemeral development and staging environments
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