Ollama
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$65M
1 round on record
Latest round
$65M
Venture round · Jul 2026 · 3 mo ago
Hiring now
8
open roles
Backers
2
Y Combinator, TheoryVC
The money's age
Fresh money
3 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
35/100
in the news, fresh money
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jul 9
Raised a round Venture round $65M · TechCrunch
Mar 31
On the Hacker News front page Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview · 648 points
Aug 5, 2025
On the Hacker News front page Ollama Turbo · 430 points
Mar 15, 2024
On the Hacker News front page Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards · 633 points
Jan 2021
Went through Y Combinator
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.01%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
81
best: 648 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Jul 2026 | $65M | — | TechCrunch |
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Y Combinator 
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How Ollama hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Ollama scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 6 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Ollama is a software company that makes it easy to run open models and automate work with them while keeping data safe. It began as an open-source local-first runtime and has grown into a developer network of 8.9 million monthly active developers, backed by Y Combinator, Benchmark, 8VC and Theory Ventures. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States.
News
Ollama Pro из России в 2026: как оплатить подписку и кредиты - Сервисы на vc.ru
Оплата Ollama Pro из России, использование карты зарубежного банка, сервис Payholder для оплаты, тарифы и кредиты Ollama, доступ к облачным моделям.
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Benchmarking llama.cpp vs llamafile vs LM Studio vs Ollama: What Moved Throughput
We benchmarked llama.cpp, llamafile, LM Studio, and Ollama on Mac, Steam Deck, and an NVIDIA L40S. The engine barely matters, the build does.
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Co11ateral (@co11ateral) on X
Ollama Shodan indexes over 47.000 exposed Ollama instances, including many running on expensive cloud GPUs.The API has no authentication, which means hackers can run prompts, steal models and exploit vulnerable versions.To spread awareness we made an arti
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How to get better results from local LLMs with Ollama
Thanks to recent Gemma 4 and Qwen releases, you can get some real generative AI work done on your own computer. Here's how to optimize an Ollama setup.
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Notes on migrating 35kb prompts away from Anthropic/OpenAI to Self-Hosted Ollama+opencode - blog
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Running Opencode with Ollama on mac. - Tensors & Tokens
How to get started with running Ollama local models with Opencode and Docker Sandboxes.
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Ollama's transparent pricing Ollama Blog
Ollama's Pro, Max, and Team plans now use industry-standard per-token pricing with usage included on every plan.
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32K Open Ollamas, 256 Honeypots, and 365 failed ransoms
Eighteen months of unsecured Ollama servers. Hundreds of them are not servers at all but one honeypot kit wearing an Ollama mask, built to catch the people scanning. 365 more carry a ransom note, and the wallet has never received a single satoshi.
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Claude Desktop support with Ollama Ollama Blog
Claude Desktop can now be configured to work with Ollama as a third-party gateway provider, making it possible to use open models in Claude.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Ollama over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
12
Postings analysed
8
Stack modernity
78/100
Languages
Go
C++
TypeScript
Frameworks & libraries
CUDA
LangChain
LlamaIndex
MLX ML
Cloud & platforms
CUDA Toolkit
GitHub
Kubernetes
Windows
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Full Ollama tech stack
12 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Growth
Hiring Momentum
58/100
Growing
Open positions
8
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
50% ▼
Product
50% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Windows to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Added Discord to stack
Sep 2026
Added LlamaIndex to stack
Sep 2026
Added LangChain to stack
Sep 2026
Added GitHub to stack
Aug 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Palo Alto
Palo Alto
United States
HQ
8 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 50% engineering
hires for Backend, Sales, Product
Jobs
≈ $141k – $296k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Palo Alto
LangChain
LlamaIndex
Ollama
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≈ $148k – $311k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Palo Alto
Go
Ollama
DevOps
GitHub
Management
Discord
Apply
≈ $148k – $311k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Palo Alto
Ollama
DevOps
Kubernetes
Apply
≈ $148k – $312k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Palo Alto
Go
C++
CUDA Toolkit
Quantization
Ollama
MLX ML
CUDA
DevOps
Windows
Apply
≈ $147k – $309k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Palo Alto
Go
TypeScript
Ollama
Apply
Financials
Total raised
$65M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2026 | $65M | Details |