Fireworks AI

Provides high-performance inference infrastructure for deploying open-source generative AI models.

Founders

Lin Qiao (China · ♀) — As co-creator and head of PyTorch at Meta, she experienced firsthand how slow AI infrastructure is to build and founded Fireworks in 2022 to compress AI inference time-to-market from years to days.
Benny Chen (United States · ♂) — A Meta ads infrastructure lead who co-founded Fireworks to build a fast, optimized generative-AI inference platform.
Dmytro Dzhulgakov (Ukraine · ♂) — A PyTorch core maintainer at Meta who co-founded Fireworks to bring production-grade AI inference infrastructure to developers.

Shares the most investors with (number = shared investors):

Date	Round	Amount
Oct 2025	Series C Fireworks AI closed a $250 million Series C led by Lightspeed, Index Ventures and Evantic at a $4 billion valuation.	$250M
Jul 2025	Growth Fireworks AI is in talks with Lightspeed and Index Ventures to raise at a ~$4B valuation, up from $552M after its Series B.	—
Jul 2024	Series B Redwood City GenAI inference platform Fireworks AI raised a $52M Series B led by Sequoia at a $552M valuation, with NVIDIA and AMD.	$52M

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