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Ollama Raises $65 Million in Funding as Open AI Tool Tops 9 Million Builders

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Open-source AI developer tool Ollama raised $65 million in a new funding round, the company announced on July 9. The platform reported it now supports more than 9 million active builders running large language models locally.

The funding will be used to scale the open model ecosystem, which Ollama described as having moved past its early adoption phase into wider industrial use. The announcement did not disclose participating investors or a company valuation.

From the sources (6 posts)

@ollama

Big day for Ollama! When we started, open models and the open source AI ecosystem were in their early days with few believers. Our belief in open source has never wavered. With today's fundraising announcement and our 9M+ active builders,

@ttunguz

RT @ollama: Big day for Ollama! When we started, open models and the open source AI ecosystem were in their early days with few believers.…

@sqs

RT @ollama: Big day for Ollama! When we started, open models and the open source AI ecosystem were in their early days with few believers.…

@ttunguz

RT @TechCrunch: Popular open source AI developer tool Ollama raises $65M, grows to nearly 9M users

@ollama

RT @TechCrunch: Popular open source AI developer tool Ollama raises $65M, grows to nearly 9M users

@techcrunch

Popular open source AI developer tool Ollama raises $65M, grows to nearly 9M users

Preview built on a synthetic news corpus (16 weeks, Apr–Jul 2026). Impact calls are model reads, not price data.

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