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Featherless AI

Featherless AI is a serverless inference platform that lets developers deploy over 30,000 open-source AI models via API without managing infrastructure.

featherless.ai · San Francisco

CALL NO.CS·FEATHERLESS·26
StageSeries AApril 2026 · led by AMD Ventures[1][2][4][5][6]
Raised$25Mdisclosed rounds[1][14]
Headcount30sources disagree, see below[12][8]
Valuationnot publicly disclosedno source in ledger
Founded2023[1][8][12]
Money

Raised $25M across disclosed rounds.[1][14]

Series A closed April 2026, led by AMD Ventures.[1][2][4][5][6]

post-money valuation is not publicly disclosed.

Named investors include AMD Ventures, Airbus Ventures, BMW i Ventures, Kickstart Ventures, Panache Ventures, Wavemaker Ventures, Sixty Degree Capital.[1][2][4][14]

People

Eugene Cheah, CEO Co-Founder[1][9][10][11][8]

Harrison Vanderbyl, CTO Co-Founder[1][9][10][11]

Wesley George, COO Co-Founder[1][9][10][11]

Harrison Vanderbyl, Chief Technology Officer[8]

Wesley George, COO[8]

Nathan W., Technical Lead[8]

Abhijoy Sarkar, GTM Lead[8]

Headcount: sources disagree
30as of May 2026

Featherless AI · Jun 2026[12]

Featherless AI · Jun 2026[8]

Signals
Apr 30 2026fundingFeatherless.ai raises $20M Series A co-led by AMD Ventures and Airbus Ventures[2][1][4][5][6][7]
Apr 15 2026hiringFeatherless AI hiring 43 open positions including founding AE and BDR roles[8]
Mar 4 2026launchFeatherless AI partners with GenAI Zürich 2026 Hackathon[8]
Oct 8 2025otherFeatherless AI presents RWKV-7 and RADLADS papers at COLM 2025[9]
Mar 17 2025fundingAirbus Ventures invests $5M seed round in Featherless.ai company claim, not independently confirmed[13]
Comps

Together AI · together.ai · Same buyer (developers deploying open models via API), same workflow (inference API for open-weight models), same budget (AI inference compute spend).[5]

Replicate · replicate.com · Same buyer (developers), same workflow (API access to open models), same budget (inference compute).[5]

Baseten · baseten.co · Same buyer (enterprises deploying models), same workflow (inference infrastructure), same budget (ML infrastructure spend).[5]

Groq · groq.com · Same buyer (developers needing fast inference), same workflow (API for open models), but differentiated by custom silicon vs serverless GPU orchestration.[5]

Risk

The customer proof is company-sourced only. No independent source in this ledger confirms it.[13]

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Featherless AI

CALL NO.CS·FEATHERLESS·26

Featherless AI is a serverless inference platform that lets developers deploy over 30,000 open-source AI models via API without managing infrastructure.

featherless.ai · San Francisco

StageSeries A
Raised$25M
Headcount30
Valuationnot publicly disclosed
Founded2023
CompsTogether AI +3

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