Baseten
Series C+Raised Since FeaturedInference is everything
AI inference infrastructure platform that enables developers to deploy and scale machine learning models in production with optimized performance.
About
Baseten provides the infrastructure, tooling, and expertise needed to bring high-performance AI products to market. The platform handles dedicated inference for custom and proprietary models, offers pre-optimized Model APIs for popular open-source models, and supports multi-cloud deployment. Founded in 2019 by a team of serial entrepreneurs and engineers, Baseten has grown from an ML application builder into the premier inference platform powering real-time AI at scale. Their technology delivers 99.99% uptime, 2x higher throughput for embeddings, and supports compound AI systems through Baseten Chains. Major customers include Patreon, Clay, and Writer.
DailyDropout Take
Baseten is the rare startup we featured at Series A that has since rocketed to a $5B valuation. What started as an ML application builder has evolved into the go-to inference infrastructure platform, riding the AI wave with impeccable timing. With NVIDIA backing and 10x+ revenue growth, Baseten validates our early conviction that the picks-and-shovels play in AI would be massive.
Discovery signal: Strong technical founding team with infrastructure experience at Yelp, Uber, Gumroad, and Clover Health. Early product-market fit with enterprise customers like Patreon.
What Makes Them Unique
Baseten combines bleeding-edge inference performance with developer-friendly tooling, offering dedicated GPU infrastructure, pre-optimized model APIs, and compound AI orchestration via Baseten Chains โ delivering 99.99% uptime and 2x throughput improvements over alternatives.
$5B
Valuation
$585M
Total Raised
~150
Team Size
$15.8M
Revenue (2025)
Target Markets
Founders
Tuhin Srivastava
CEO & Co-Founder
Serial entrepreneur who studied Electrical Engineering at USC. Previously co-founded Shape Analytics and Sutro Health.
Amir Haghighat
CTO & Co-Founder
Former Engineering Manager at Clover Health and Head of Engineering at Gumroad. Previously worked as Software Engineer at Yelp.
Philip Howes
Chief Scientist & Co-Founder
Studied Mathematics at University of Sydney. Previously co-founded Sutro Health.
Pankaj Gupta
Co-Founder
Former Software Engineer at Uber. Studied Electrical Engineering at IIT Delhi.
Baseten is hiring!
Team size: ~150
Funding History
Lead: AI Fund
Lead: Greylock
Lead: Spark Capital
Lead: IVP & Spark Capital
Valuation: $2.15B
Lead: BOND
Valuation: $5B
Lead: IVP & CapitalG