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Render is a cloud application platform founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It enables developers and engineering teams to deploy, scale, and manage web applications, APIs, databases, and background services without requiring deep DevOps expertise. The platform supports static sites, web services, private services, background workers, cron jobs, managed PostgreSQL, Redis-compatible key-value stores, and durable workflow execution. Render provides automated builds from Git, zero-downtime deploys, full-stack pull-request preview environments, horizontal autoscaling, private networking, and edge caching via a global CDN. Security and compliance features include DDoS protection, SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, and GDPR coverage. Backed by $258 million in total funding at a $1.5 billion valuation, Render reports over 4.5 million developers on the platform and is expanding its focus toward AI-native application and agent workloads requiring stateful, long-running infrastructure.