Anurag Goel
Anurag Goel is the founder and CEO of Render, a modern cloud provider he started in July 2017. Under his leadership, Render has grown to serve thousands of developers and startups, handling over 80 million requests weekly by April 2019, and over 50 billion requests monthly by May 2025. Goel's vision for Render focuses on simplifying cloud infrastructure and providing a seamless user experience. Anurag Goel was the eighth employee and Head of Risk at Stripe, helping the company launch in 2011 and grow to a $5 billion valuation by 2016. He founded Crestle, an AI infrastructure company, which was acquired by doc.ai in 2018. In 2018, Goel founded Render, a modern cloud provider that simplifies application deployment and scaling. Render publicly launched in 2019 and won TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield. Under his leadership, Render now serves over 50 billion requests monthly and hosts millions of applications. His career reflects a consistent drive to enhance developer experience and streamline cloud infrastructure.
Career Milestones
- Eighth employee and Head of Risk at Stripe, contributing to its growth to a $5 billion valuation by 2016.
- Founded Crestle, an AI infrastructure company, acquired by doc.ai in 2018.
- Founded Render in 2018, publicly launched in 2019, and won TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield.
- Scaled Render to serve over 50 billion requests monthly and host millions of applications, focusing on developer experience and simplified cloud infrastructure.
About Render
Render, founded in 2018, is a cloud platform provider for application deployment and scaling services. They help developers and software teams of all sizes, offering features like autoscaling, private networking, and zero-downtime deployments. Benefits include shipping products fast and at scale by reducing complexity and cost.