Baseten Labs, Inc. is an AI inference infrastructure company that provides high-performance tooling for deploying machine learning models into production at scale. Baseten's Twitter Score is 41 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #22,921 (top 5%) among 486,621 tracked accounts.
Baseten was co-founded by Tuhin Srivastava as CEO, Amir Haghighat as CTO, Phil Howes as Chief Scientist, and Pankaj Gupta, with the company taking shape in 2019 around the problem of getting AI models reliably into production environments. Its platform covers dedicated inference, pre-optimized model APIs, multi-cloud availability, model runtimes, and developer deployment workflows. Baseten also develops Truss, an open-source framework for packaging and serving models, alongside optimized implementations of widely used open-source AI models.
Baseten has raised successive funding rounds as demand for inference infrastructure has grown. Early capital came from a seed round co-led by Greylock, followed by a Series A also led by Greylock, with the two rounds together totaling a little over $20 million. A $40M Series B was led by IVP and Spark Capital, with Greylock, South Park Commons, and others participating. A $75M Series C, co-led by IVP and Spark Capital, followed on February 19, 2025, with Conviction among the new participants. On September 5, 2025, Baseten announced a $150M Series D led by BOND, with CapitalG, Altimeter, Battery Ventures, Scribble Ventures, BoxGroup, and others joining. On January 23, 2026, Baseten announced a $300M Series E at a $5 billion valuation, led by IVP and CapitalG, with NVIDIA, Blackbird Ventures, and additional existing investors participating.
Baseten announced an acquihire of the Inferless team on February 13, 2026, expanding its inference-infrastructure capabilities. Additional backers across its funding history include Caffeinated Capital and AI Fund. Baseten has 18,947 followers as of September 2026 and has published 2,897 posts. Baseten has been mentioned by 159 accounts, with 303 total mentions.
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