Baseten
Headquarters
San Francisco, CAFounded
2019CEO / Founder
Tuhin SrivastavaEmployees
51-200Funding
Series E — $585MProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
8.0/10Website
baseten.co/
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About Baseten
Baseten is a machine learning infrastructure company founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company was co-founded by Tuhin Srivastava, Philip Howes, and Amir Haghighat to provide a platform for deploying and serving AI models at scale, targeting ML engineers and teams building production AI applications.
The company's core product is a model inference platform that supports deployment of open-source models such as those from Meta, Mistral, and Stability AI, as well as custom fine-tuned models. Baseten offers features including autoscaling, GPU infrastructure management, and a framework called Truss for packaging and serving models. The platform is used by AI-native companies and enterprises that require low-latency, high-throughput inference without managing underlying infrastructure.
Baseten raised a $20 million Series A round in 2022 and subsequently closed a $40 million Series B round in 2024, bringing total disclosed funding to approximately $60 million. Investors include Greylock Partners and IVP, among others. The company has grown its headcount to roughly 50–150 employees as of 2024 and competes with providers such as Modal, Replicate, and cloud-native inference services from major hyperscalers.
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Financials
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Competitive Landscape
Who Baseten competes with, and how they differ.
Modal is a general-purpose serverless compute platform (batch jobs, training and inference alike), whereas Baseten is purpose-built as a managed inference cloud focused on production model serving.
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Replicate is an open API marketplace for running community and open-source models pay-per-use, targeting individual developers, while Baseten focuses on dedicated, enterprise-grade deployments with custom performance tuning.
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Fireworks AI competes most directly on raw LLM inference speed via its own proprietary serving engine (FireAttention), similar to Baseten's performance-engineering pitch for production LLM workloads.
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Together AI pairs a GPU cloud marketplace with inference APIs and fine-tuning services, a broader compute-plus-training play compared to Baseten's narrower managed-inference-cloud focus.
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RunPod is a self-serve, on-demand GPU rental cloud -- more raw infrastructure than managed service -- versus Baseten's fully managed model-serving abstraction with autoscaling built in.
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Anyscale commercializes the Ray distributed-computing framework for both training and serving at scale, appealing to teams already invested in Ray, versus Baseten's model-agnostic inference platform.
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Key milestones in Baseten's history, with sources.
- Funding
TechCrunch: Baseten reportedly raising $1.5B at $11B-$13B valuation
TechCrunch reported Baseten was in talks to raise $1.5B in a dual-tier round (some investors at $11B, most recent at $13B) led by Spark Capital, Sands Capital, Altimeter Capital and Wellington Management -- a roughly 160% valuation jump in under five months. Not confirmed closed as of the article date.
techcrunch.com - Funding
Series E -- $300M at $5B valuation
Baseten raised $300M in a round anchored by IVP, CapitalG and NVIDIA, valuing the company at $5B and bringing total capital raised to $585M since its 2019 founding.
finance.yahoo.com - Funding
Series D -- $150M
A $150M Series D was reported by TechCrunch as having occurred roughly nine months before the January 2026 Series E; exact month, valuation and lead investors were not independently confirmed.
techcrunch.com - Funding
Series B -- $40M
Baseten raised a $40M Series B, per Forbes, to make AI deployment more practical for companies; lead investors not specified by that source.
forbes.com - Funding
Seed + Series A -- $20M combined
Baseten raised $20M across a seed round (co-led by Greylock and South Park Commons Fund, with angels including Greg Brockman, Dylan Field and Mustafa Suleyman) and a Series A led by Greylock.
techcrunch.com - Founded
Baseten founded
Founded by Tuhin Srivastava (CEO), Amir Haghighat (CTO) and Philip Howes (Chief Scientist), who previously worked together at Gumroad.
baseten.co
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