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Poolside is a foundation model company bringing intelligence to everywhere work gets done. Our mission is to drive abundance for humanity by creating artificial general intelligence. observed

fresh · evidence 14d ago 11 sources no confidence data
79/100
Venture signal
scored above 89% of unstaged peers stage unparsed
Outlook Stable
Why this score? ↓

What we have established three decisions, kept apart

  1. 1 Identity verified Not recorded

    No person- or entity-level identity check is on record for this company. A name match is not one.

  2. 2 Evidence sufficient to publish Yes

    The inclusion bar: two or more independent sourced evidence families. This profile is published and listed. It is a statement about how much evidence we hold, and about nothing else.

  3. 3 Fit for a seed/Series-A sourcing buyer Not established

    We have not established fit. That is not a soft no and not a soft yes — it is unknown, and it is never counted as a qualified prospect.

Funding
$1B
Adoption
no signal
downloads / week
Developer
not scored
momentum / 100
Hiring
no board
eng openings
Commercial
sales-led
homepage

Traction

Current round

Opportunity & risk

↗ Strongest signal: funding_magnitude (30% of the score).

↓ Scored on 1 of 4 components — funding_recency, adoption, developer had no computable metric.

7 independent sources 0 promoted signals inspect the evidence →

The skeptic's read what this company has said, judged against what happened

1 claims on record 0 verified 0 contradicted 0 still unproven

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Evaluation

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Platform score derived
79/100
Founder self-assessment claimed
11/100
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VIX signals 1 hard signal across 1 source ▾

The platform's own early signals for this company — hard-to-fake, and where one preceded a real raise, the measured lead.

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What people are saying 17 signals from 0 voices ▾
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Evidence & scoring

Why this score? none_required ▾

VentureSignalScore 79/100 for poolside, composed from 1 of 4 components (emerging formula), discounted ×0.79 for 30% signal coverage

ComponentWeightNormalizedContribution
funding_magnitude 0.3 1 0.3

Evidence this score rests on

  • funding.round.amount_usd 2026-10-08 artifact ↗ superseded since

Capital timeline every dated signal, across tiers

  1. rumor AI coding startup Poolside raises $500M from eBay, Nvidia and others ↗
  2. rumor Poolside Raises $500M for Coding AI ↗
  3. rumor Poolside.ai raises $400M to build a coding co-pilot ↗
  4. rumor Poolside is raising $400M+ at a $2B valuation to build a coding co-pilot ↗
  5. rumor US AI startup Poolside raises $126M seed round and relocates to France ↗

Narrative vs. reality No SEC filing found for this round

Reported narrative · Tier 2
$1B
announced —
Filed reality · Tier 0 · SEC
No SEC Form D on record.

An evidence gap, not proof of falsity: Form D is not always required (foreign offerings, certain exemptions) or may not be filed yet.

Financing events four different events, four different dates

A first sale, a filing, an amendment and a public announcement are not the same event, and one date may not stand in for another. Where the latest financing date cannot be established from what we hold, this says unknown rather than substituting a date we do have.

Latest established financing date
unknown
Money moved on or after
not established
Total reported by
not established
Basis
unknown

No reported round and no SEC filing on record — no financing date is established.

Shipped capability HuggingFace · public

This company publishes models on HuggingFace — observable proof of capability, ahead of any product announcement. Adoption is measured in real downloads.

Community chatter Hacker News · Tier 3 · unverified manip. risk elevated · 0.41

Gray-market attention, not quality. 37+ HN mentions (peak 431 points). Claim-shaped headlines are rumors until corroborated — a Tier-3 factual claim carries no evidentiary weight on its own. Risk drivers: heavy gray-market attention. ▲ 431 Poolside.fm 2020-02-20 ↗

Raw observations 79 records ▾
AttributeValueKindSourceObservedStateConf.
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ai.technical.assessment {"council": {"dissent": false, "members": [{"agent": "technical_specialist", "domain": "technical", "signal": 0, "signal_source": "deterministic"}, {"agent": "product_docs_specialist", "domain": "prod derived council 2026-10-09 promoted 0.15
common_name Poolside observed intelligence.claims 2026-10-01 normalized 0.90
common_name Poolside observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-08 normalized 0.60
community.hn.max_points 431 observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-26 normalized 0.20
community.hn.mentions 50 observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-26 superseded 0.20
community.hn.mentions 37 observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-08 normalized 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41722323", "title": "AI coding startup Poolside raises $500M from eBay, Nvidia and others", "points": 5, "created_at": "2024-10-02", "evidence_type": "ru observed artifact ↗ 2024-10-02 superseded 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41722323", "title": "AI coding startup Poolside raises $500M from eBay, Nvidia and others", "points": 5, "created_at": "2024-10-02", "evidence_type": "ru observed artifact ↗ 2024-10-02 superseded 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41722323", "title": "AI coding startup Poolside raises $500M from eBay, Nvidia and others", "points": 5, "created_at": "2024-10-02", "evidence_type": "ru observed artifact ↗ 2024-10-02 normalized 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22371629", "title": "Poolside.fm", "points": 431, "created_at": "2020-02-20"} observed artifact ↗ 2020-02-20 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22371629", "title": "Poolside.fm", "points": 431, "created_at": "2020-02-20"} observed artifact ↗ 2020-02-20 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22371629", "title": "Poolside.fm", "points": 431, "created_at": "2020-02-20"} observed artifact ↗ 2020-02-20 normalized 0.20
description Poolside is a foundation model company bringing intelligence to everywhere work gets done. Our mission is to drive abundance for humanity by creating artificial general intelligence. observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-08 normalized 0.70
domain poolside.ai observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-08 normalized 0.95
funding.round.amount_usd 1000000000 observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-08 superseded 0.50
funding.round.amount_usd 1000000000 observed artifact ↗ 2026-08-27 superseded 0.50
funding.round.amount_usd 1000000000 observed artifact ↗ 2026-08-27 normalized 0.50
metric.venture.funding_amount_usd 1000000000 derived calc 2026-10-08 derived 0.50
score.venture_signal 79 derived calc 2026-10-08 derived 0.26
sector emerging derived calc 2026-09-28 normalized 0.50
signal.attributed_claims 1 observed intelligence.claims 2026-09-26 parsed 0.90
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