Railway Raises $100M to Challenge AWS

San Francisco-based cloud platform Railway announced a $100 million Series B round led by TQ Ventures, valuing the company as a major player in the AI infrastructure boom. With 2 million developers already on board, Railway is tackling the complexity and cost of traditional providers like Amazon Web Services by offering sub-second deployments tailored for the age of AI coding assistants. Founder Jake Cooper highlighted that while AI tools like Claude and Cursor can generate code in seconds, traditional infrastructure tools like Terraform still take minutes to deploy. Railway's vertically integrated approach, which includes building its own data centers, allows for 'agentic speed' deployments and significant cost savings, positioning the startup to capitalize on the predicted explosion of AI-generated software.