Design Engineering magazine describes Rescale as "...a good fit for manufacturers who need to run complex simulation and optimization jobs, but don't have the HPC hardware required.

"[1] As of 2015, Rescale established the largest globally available HPC network which enables hybrid and multi-cloud operations across major cloud service providers and on-premises data centers.

Founded in 2011 in San Francisco, California, by Joris Poort (CEO) and Adam McKenzie (CTO), Rescale launched in Y Combinator[3] and has been recognized as a top company multiple times, and as recently as 2023.

[5] Rescale received investment funding from high-profile investors including Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos,[6] Richard Branson, Chris Dixon,[7] Paul Graham, and Peter Thiel.

By 2022, Rescale had raised over $200 million and reached a valuation of over $1 billion, making it the first unicorn company in cloud high performance computing.