Baseten raises $1.5 billion in Series F round
Baseten, which specializes in AI inference infrastructure, raised $1.5 billion on June 22, valued at up to $13 billion.
The round
Baseten announced a $1.5 billion Series F round on June 22, 2026, valued at up to $13 billion — one of the largest US startup raises that month, according to Crunchbase.
What the company does
Baseten operates in AI inference infrastructure — the layer responsible for running and serving AI models in production, at scale, once they've already been trained.
Market context
The round reflects growing demand for specialized inference infrastructure as more companies move from testing generative AI to running it in production at volume.
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