According to TC, Grid AI announced that it has raised an $18.6 million Series A funding round led by Index Ventures, with participation from Bain Capital Ventures and firstminute.

Grid enables companies of all sizes to train state-of-the-art AI models on hundreds of cloud GPUs and TPUs from their laptops. From the creator of the popular framework PyTorch Lightning, Grid is a platform for training models that enables rapid research iteration. Grid aims to simplify scalable AI research so that when a network becomes complex, code doesn't. Focus on machine learning, not infrastructure. Grid is based in New York and was founded by Wiliam Falcon and Luis Capelo.