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Baseten

201 Spear Street, San Francisco, California, 94105, United States

Overview

Baseten provides software and multi-cloud compute infrastructure to help companies optimize, customize, and serve open-source AI models, handling inference workloads and latency optimization. The company positions itself as enabling enterprises to deploy open-source models efficiently, competing with closed-source alternatives by reducing costs; at least one customer reported up to a 30% cost reduction. Key customers include Cursor, Mercor, and OpenEvidence. Baseten’s annualized revenue run rate has surged from roughly $200 million to about $600 million. The company has rapidly increased its valuation in 2025–2026 through multiple financing rounds, most recently reaching as high as $13 billion in the current transaction.

Total raised
$2.1B
Funding rounds
7
Latest round
Series F
Latest activity
Jun 2026

Industries

  • AI Infrastructure
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Developer Tools
  • Machine Learning
  • Software
  • Software Engineering
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Recent funding

  1. Series F

    Jun 2026

    $1.5B

  2. Series E

    Jan 2026

    $300M

  3. Series C

    Feb 2025

    $75M

  4. Series B

    Mar 2024

    $40M

  5. Series A

    Apr 2022

    $12M

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