# Render Network: physical AI company

Canonical ID: `33af1923-b563-40b8-84e4-443e6971bed5`

## Key facts

- **Business model:** Decentralized GPU marketplace: OTOY-built protocol brokers rendering and AI compute jobs to third-party node operators, settled in the RENDER token
- **Parent / operator:** Built by OTOY Inc; protocol now stewarded by the nonprofit Render Network Foundation
- **Founder:** [Jules Urbach](/people/jules-urbach.md) (also founder and CEO of OTOY, 2009)
- **Launched:** 2017 (ERC-20 RNDR token launch); protocol migrated to Solana in late 2023 and rebranded token ticker to RENDER
- **Headquarters:** Los Angeles, California (OTOY HQ)
- **Workload mix:** 3D rendering (OctaneRender, Redshift, Blender Cycles) plus generative-AI inference via integrations with Runway, Black Forest Labs, Luma Labs, and Stability AI
- **GPU inventory:** Not disclosed; supply is contributed by third-party node operators rather than owned by Render, so the network does not publish an H100/H200/B200 count
- **Datacenter footprint:** No owned campuses; capacity is a distributed pool of node operators, not colocation contracts
- **Announced hourly pricing:** Not published as a fixed per-GPU rate; jobs are priced in RENDER via a tiered on-demand marketplace with no minimum commitment
- **Advisory board:** Includes J.J. Abrams (Bad Robot), Brendan Eich (Brave), the artist Beeple, and Emad Mostaque (formerly Stability AI)

- **Slug:** render-network
- **Status:** active
- **Founded:** 2017
- **HQ:** Los Angeles, California, USA

## Models

_No models registered._

## Current leadership (1)

- [Jules Urbach](/people/jules-urbach.md) Founder, Render Network; Founder and CEO, OTOY (_reported, not verified_)

## Supplies to

_No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this company's outbound edges._

_Outbound supply edges. Each appears when verified with at least two strong sources. Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history._

## Common questions

### What is Render Network?

Render Network is a decentralized GPU compute marketplace that sits at the edge of the neocloud pack rather than in its center. Instead of building or leasing datacenters and racking H100s, Render aggregates idle GPU capacity from third-party node operators worldwide (from independent rendering farms down to individual workstations) and brokers jobs to them through the RENDER token, an on-chain settlement layer originally launched on Ethereum in 2017 and migrated to Solana in 2023. It grew out of OTOY, the OctaneRender graphics company founded by Jules Urbach in 2009, and is now stewarded by the nonprofit Render Network Foundation with an advisory board that has included J.J. Abrams, Brendan Eich, Beeple, and Emad Mostaque.

### What does Render Network make?

Render Network has no robot models recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Render Network builds physical robots.

### Is Render Network publicly traded?

Render Network is not independently listed on public markets; it is part of Render on the DEPLOY registry.

### How can I invest in Render Network?

Render Network has no separately traded stock; it is owned by Render (the parent is the entity that trades, where it is public).

### Where is Render Network headquartered?

Render Network is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, USA.

### Who owns Render Network?

Render Network is owned by Render, per the DEPLOY registry.

### Is Render Network a top robotics company?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, Render Network ranks in roughly the top 97% of companies tracked by the registry.


## Sources (3)

1. https://rendernetwork.com
2. https://rendernetwork.com/about
3. https://rendernetwork.com/#supported-engines

## The verified answers

- [Which companies have the most robots deployed](/which-companies-have-the-most-robots-deployed.md)
- [Which operators run the most robots](/which-operators-run-the-most-robots.md)
- [Which robot operators cover the most countries](/which-robot-operators-cover-the-most-countries.md)

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