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  "markdown": "Co-founder and CEO, Modal.\n\nErik Bernhardsson co-founded Modal and is its CEO. He ran the technology team at Better.com from 2015 to 2021, and before that spent six years at Spotify, where he built the first version of its music recommendations and open-sourced the Luigi workflow engine and the Annoy library.\n\n- X: https://x.com/bernhardsson\n\n## What Erik builds\n\n- [Modal](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/modal.md), graded B, 63.8/100, in GPU \u0026 serverless compute. Serverless functions, web endpoints, servers and GPU jobs from a Python decorator, with JavaScript and Go SDKs. Co-founder and CEO, Modal, researched 2026-10-28.\n- [Modal Sandboxes](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/modal-sandboxes.md), graded B, 66/100, in Code execution sandboxes. Modal's sandboxed compute environments for running code, with SDK access, GPU support and filesystem snapshots. Co-founder and CEO, Modal, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Akshat Bubna](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/akshat-bubna/), Co-founder, Modal\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Accel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/accel/)\n- [Kleiner Perkins](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/kleiner-perkins/)\n- [General Catalyst](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/general-catalyst/)\n- [Redpoint Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/redpoint-ventures/)\n- [Menlo Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/menlo-ventures/)\n- [Bain Capital Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bain-capital-ventures/)\n- [Lux Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/lux-capital/)\n- [Amplify Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/amplify-partners/)\n- [Creandum](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/creandum/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Erik Bernhardsson?\n\nErik Bernhardsson co-founded Modal and is its CEO. He ran the technology team at Better.com from 2015 to 2021, and before that spent six years at Spotify, where he built the first version of its music recommendations and open-sourced the Luigi workflow engine and the Annoy library.\n\n### What does Modal make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Modal and Modal Sandboxes from Modal. Serverless functions, web endpoints, servers and GPU jobs from a Python decorator, with JavaScript and Go SDKs.\n\n### Who has invested in Modal?\n\nThe sources our research read name Accel, Kleiner Perkins, General Catalyst, Redpoint Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Lux Capital, Amplify Partners and Creandum.\n\n### How are Erik's tools graded?\n\nModal is graded B, 63.8 out of 100; Modal Sandboxes is graded B, 66 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://modal.com/\n- https://modal.com/company\n- https://erikbern.com/about.html\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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