Arena
VS
RunPod

AI infra comparison — funding, valuation, and investors, sourced from Value Add Pulse coverage.

A
Arena

Arena (formerly LMArena, born as Chatbot Arena at UC Berkeley) operates the crowdsourced leaderboard and evaluation platform used industry-wide to benchmark and rank AI models.

3 Pulse stories
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RunPod

RunPod is a cloud platform providing on-demand GPU infrastructure for developers to build, train, and deploy AI/ML workloads.

2 Pulse stories
Total Raised
$250M
$122M
ArenaRunPod
Last Valuation
$1.7B
$1B
ArenaRunPod
AI infra
Sector
AI infra
2025
Founded
2022
San Francisco, CA
HQ
Mount Laurel, New Jersey
Private
Status
Private
Arena investors
FelicisUC InvestmentsAndreessen HorowitzKleiner PerkinsLightspeed Venture PartnersThe House FundLaude Ventures
RunPod investors
Summit PartnersIntel CapitalDell Technologies Capital

Data from Value Add Pulse coverage and company research — see the full threads for Arena and RunPod.