New funding and said its local open-model tooling now serves 8.9 million developers. The company listed Benchmark, Theory Ventures, 8VC, Y Combinator, and several angel investors among its backers.
The milestone shows continued demand for tools that make open models easy to run on developer machines and private infrastructure. Local model workflows remain important for experimentation, privacy-sensitive work, and cost control.
As more teams mix cloud APIs with open models, Ollama's growth points to a durable developer appetite for simpler model distribution and runtime tooling.