Inferact

Inferact, a San Francisco-based developer of a high-performance AI inference engine, raised $150 million in seed funding. The round was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Sequoia Capital, Altimeter Capital, Redpoint Ventures, and ZhenFund. The company plans to use the funds to expand its team and finalize its VLLM.

Inferact, an AI infrastructure startup founded by creators of the open-source vllm inference engine, has secured $150 million in seed funding at an $800 million valuation. This funding aims to enhance performance in large language model serving while maintaining open development of vllm. The seed round was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from notable investors like Sequoia Capital and Altimeter Capital.