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Baseten

Baseten provides AI inference infrastructure that lets companies deploy and run their own models instead of renting intelligence from frontier labs.

baseten.co · San Francisco

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StageSeries FJune 2026 · led by Altimeter Capital[5]
Raised$2.1Bdisclosed rounds[1][7]
Headcount312sources disagree, see below[1][7]
Valuationnot publicly disclosedno source in ledger
Founded2019[1][4]
Money

Raised $2.1B across disclosed rounds.[1][7]

Series F closed June 2026, led by Altimeter Capital.[5]

post-money valuation is not publicly disclosed.

Named investors include Altimeter Capital, Battery Ventures, Blackbird, BOND, CapitalG, Conviction Partners, D.E. Shaw Ventures, Durable Capital Partners, Greylock, IVP, NVIDIA, Sands Capital, Spark Capital, Verified Capital, Wellington Management, 01A.[1][5][6]

People

Tuhin Srivastava, Co-founder and CEO[5][9][11]

Amir Haghighat, Co-founder[5][9][11]

Phil Howes, Co-founder[5][9][11]

Pankaj Gupta, Co-founder[5][9][11]

Dannie Herzberg, President[7][10][11]

Matthew Slagle, CRO[7][10][11]

Headcount: sources disagree
312as of 2026

Baseten 2026 Company Profile: Valuation, Funding & Investors | PitchBook · Jul 2026[1]

Baseten · Jul 2026[7]

Signals
Jul 20 2026hiringCareers at Baseten company claim, not independently confirmed[14]
Jul 16 2026newsReal-time video generation inference on Baseten company claim, not independently confirmed[13]
Jun 22 2026fundingAnnouncing our Series F company claim, not independently confirmed[5]
Jun 18 2026fundingAI inference startup Baseten reportedly raising $1.5B months after its last mega-round[2][5][4][12]
May 6 2026launchHow Baseten powered Poolside's model launch in record time company claim, not independently confirmed[15]
Jan 23 2026fundingBaseten raises $300M Series E at $5B valuation company claim, not independently confirmed[6]
Comps

Fireworks AI · fireworks.ai · Same buyer and same workflow: model-serving API for open-source and fine-tuned models. Named together in market coverage of the inference gold rush.[4]

Replicate · replicate.com · Same buyer and same job to be done: AI application teams deploying open-source models via API for inference. Named as a competitor by PitchBook.[1]

Modal Labs · modal.com · Same buyer and overlapping workflow: developers deploying GPU workloads including inference. Named as a competitor by PitchBook.[1]

Risk

The customer proof is company-sourced only. No independent source in this ledger confirms it.[14]

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Baseten provides AI inference infrastructure that lets companies deploy and run their own models instead of renting intelligence from frontier labs.

baseten.co · San Francisco

StageSeries F
Raised$2.1B
Headcount312
Valuationnot publicly disclosed
Founded2019
CompsFireworks AI +2

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