Ollama raises $65M led by Benchmark to scale its local AI developer tool to 9M users, with implications for open-source AI and onchain agent projects.

Benchmark-backed Ollama has amassed 176,000 stars, and nearly 17,000 forks on Github by helping developers easily run AI on their PCs.

Ollama has raised a $65M Series B led by Theory Ventures, taking total funding to $88M, as its open-model runner reaches nearly 9 million developers.