Jul 9, 2026
Ollama Raises $65M as Its AI Runtime Hits 9M Users
Ollama, the open source tool that lets developers run AI models locally on their own hardware, has closed a $65M funding round and grown to nearly 9 million users. Backed by Benchmark, the project has accumulated over 176,000 GitHub stars and nearly 17,000 forks. The raise signals strong investor appetite for local, privacy-first AI infrastructure.
