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Baseten

16 known investors

Baseten provides infrastructure and tooling for high-performance AI model inference, letting teams deploy open-source, custom, and fine-tuned models with optimizations for image generation, transcription, text-to-speech, LLMs, and embeddings. It offers fully-managed cloud and self-hosted deployment options aimed at companies building generative AI applications at scale.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper Tools

Founders & leadership

AHAmir Haghighat
Amir HaghighatinCo-founder

Investors · 16

HorizonMiami Beach
01 AdvisorsreportedSan Francisco · $1M – $10M
Altimeter CapitalreportedMenlo Park · $1M – $25M
BONDreportedSan Francisco
CapitalGreported · 2 sourcesSan Francisco · $50M – $100M
Convictionreported · 2 sourcesSan Francisco · $1M – $25M
Greylock Partnersreported · 2 sourcesSan Francisco · $100K – $200M
IVP (Institutional Venture Partners)reported · 3 sourcesSan Francisco · $15M – $75M
NVIDIAreported · 3 sourcesSanta Clara
Sands Capital VenturesreportedArlington · $10M – $30M
South Park CommonsreportedSan Francisco · $1M – $10M
Spark CapitalreportedSan Francisco · $500K – $25M

Also in the syndicate · 4

Base CasePremjiScribbleSpark

Funding

SEC filings, press & company announcements

$1.5B disclosed across 1 of 8 rounds · 2024–2026

Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.

Founder mafia

The Baseten mafia →

8 people who came through Baseten went on to found or lead other companies.

Elizabeth WeilInvestorFounded Scribble VenturesMudith JayasekaraCo-Head of Model TrainingFounded ParsedCharles O'NeillResearch ScientistFounded ParsedMax KirkbyResearch ScientistFounded ParsedPhillippe SiclaitSoftware EngineerFounded ClayNish SingarajuSoftware EngineerFounded UnstatiqAmir HaghighatFounderFounded BasetenPankaj GuptaCo-FounderFounded Baseten

Acquisitions · 1

Early investors' stakes continue via these deals
Parsed

Parsed trains and deploys specialized large language models tailored to a customer's domain and workflow, using an evaluation-first, continual-learning approach aimed at outperforming general-purpose models while being cheaper and faster. It targets enterprises in regulated and mission-critical sectors such as healthcare and insurance, offering multicloud inference, interpretability, and reinforcement learning for ongoing model improvement.

In the news

Baseten Raises $13B Series F for AI Inference Engineering | AIToollyaitoolly.com · Aug 2026Announcing our Series Fbaseten.co · Jun 2026Baseten Raises $1.5 Billion Series F at Up to $13 Billion Valuation | citybizcitybiz.co · Jun 2026Baseten Raises $1.5 Billion to Power the Next Era of AI Inferencebusinesswire.com · Jun 2026AI inference startup Baseten reportedly raising $1.5B months after its last mega-round | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com · Jun 2026Nvidia Invests $150M in AI Inference Startup Basetenwsj.com · Jan 2026Announcing Baseten's $300M Series Ebaseten.co · Jan 2026Baseten raises $150M Series D at $2.15Bfortune.com · Sep 2025

Frequently asked questions

What does Baseten do?
Baseten provides infrastructure and tooling for high-performance AI model inference, letting teams deploy open-source, custom, and fine-tuned models with optimizations for image generation, transcription, text-to-speech, LLMs, and embeddings. It offers fully-managed cloud and self-hosted deployment options aimed at companies building generative AI applications at scale.
Who founded Baseten?
Baseten was founded by Amir Haghighat.
Who are Baseten's investors?
Baseten's investors include Horizon, 01 Advisors, Altimeter Capital, BOND, CapitalG, Conviction, Greylock Partners, IVP (Institutional Venture Partners) and 4 more.
How much funding has Baseten raised?
Baseten has disclosed $1.5B raised across 1 of its 8 known rounds.