Rescale

Rescale was founded in 2011 by Joris Poort and Adam McKenzie, who serve as chief executive officer and chief technology officer respectively; the company took part in Y Combinator’s Winter 2012 batch. According to Fortune, both had previously worked at Boeing.⁠[1][2]

Fortune reported that Rescale had closed a $6.4 million seed round led by Data CollectiveDCVCDCVC (Data Collective) is an American deep tech venture capital firm founded in 2010 by Matt Ocko and Zachary Bogue, with offices in Palo Alto and San Francisco, California. It invests in companies that use computing and AI to solve real-world problems in fields such as energy, climate, biomedicine, defense, space, and industry; as of October 2026 it had more than $4 billion in assets under management across 13 funds.Open the full entry, with individual backers including Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, Paul Graham, Sam AltmanSam AltmanSam Altman is an entrepreneur and investor, and the co-founder and chief executive officer of OpenAI. He previously served as president of Y Combinator and founded the location-based social service Loopt. He also helped found Tools for Humanity and Merge Labs, has invested in energy and life sciences ventures, and has driven public discussion of AI governance, employment, and wealth distribution.Open the full entry and Peter ThielPeter ThielPeter Thiel is an American entrepreneur and investor, a co-founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies, and the first outside investor in Facebook. He is a partner at the venture capital firm Founders Fund and founded the Thiel Fellowship, which funds young people to leave college and build new things; his public skepticism of higher education, his support for Trump in 2016, and his funding of litigation against Gawker Media have drawn controversy.Open the full entry.⁠[2]

Rescale announced a $115 million Series D round with participants including Applied Ventures, Foxconn, Hitachi Ventures, NVIDIA, Prosperity7, the University of Michigan and Y Combinator, bringing its total funding to more than $260 million. The announcement describes Rescale as a digital engineering platform that combines cloud high-performance computing, data management tools and applied AI for modeling and simulation, with customers including Arm, Samsung, SLB and the U.S. Department of Defense.⁠[3]

Rescale launched “agentic digital engineering,” offering prebuilt simulation AI agents that automate tasks such as input validation, troubleshooting, report generation and hardware selection while keeping engineers in oversight; it also introduced an AI physics environment for turning simulation data into surrogate models and controls for balancing compute speed and cost.⁠[4]

Rescale announced that it had received funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission as a funded partner of the Agentic HPC Pipeline Initiative, which aims to use agentic AI on its platform to speed U.S. industry’s adoption of national laboratory simulation codes such as WarpX, LiDO and Adamantine; the announcement did not disclose the amount awarded to Rescale.⁠[5]

The Rescale website lists its headquarters in San Francisco, with Joris Poort as founder and chief executive officer, Adam McKenzie as founder and chief technology officer, Matt McKee as chief operating officer and David Si as chief financial officer.⁠[6]

Rescale: Official website: https://rescale.com/ (opens in a new window)⁠[7]

X: Official account: https://x.com/rescaleinc (opens in a new window)⁠[7]

LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry: Official account: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rescale (opens in a new window)⁠[7]

GitHub: Official account: https://github.com/rescale-labs (opens in a new window)⁠[7]