Supercharge Generative AI Serving
Cut costs with the fastest serving engine on the market
Cut costs with the fastest serving engine on the market
Location: United States
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $26.7M
Founded date: 2021
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 04.09.2025 | Seed | $20M | Sierra Ven... |
| 14.12.2021 | Series A | $6.7M | - |
Mentions in press and media 14
| Date | Title | Description |
| 05.09.2025 | FriendliAI Secures $20 Million to Propel AI Inference Revolution | FriendliAI closed a $20 million seed extension round. This funding fuels its leading AI inference platform. The company offers unmatched GPU cost savings and the fastest Large Language Model (LLM) inference. It tackles critical challenges: ... |
| 04.09.2025 | FriendliAI: $20 Million Seed Extension Secured For Advancing AI Inference Platform Growth | FriendliAI, a dynamic player in the AI inference platform arena, has recently marked a significant milestone by successfully closing a $20 million seed extension round. This funding is a testament to the company’s innovative approach and it... |
| 29.08.2025 | FriendliAI Closes $20M Seed Extension Funding | FriendliAI, a Redwood City, CA-based AI inference platform company, closed a $20m seed extension funding. The round was led by Capstone Partners, with participation from new investors from Sierra Ventures, Alumni Ventures, KDB, and follow-o... |
| 28.08.2025 | FriendliAI Closes $20M Seed Extension Round to Accelerate AI Inference Platform Growth | Capstone Partners, Sierra Ventures, KDB, and KB Securities invest in FriendliAI’s high-performance GPU inference solution REDWOOD CITY, CA, UNITED STATES, August 28, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- FriendliAI, a rapidly growing AI inference plat... |
| 15.07.2025 | LG AI Research and FriendliAI Announce Strategic Partnership to Launch EXAONE 4.0 for Public Access | EXAONE 4.0 Now Available to Developers and Enterprises Worldwide via FriendliAI’s High-Performance Serverless API REDWOOD CITY, CA, UNITED STATES, July 15, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- LG AI Research and FriendliAI today announced a strategic... |
| 15.07.2025 | LG Unveils Korea's First Open-weight Hybrid AI, 'EXAONE 4.0' | Proving Superior Performance in Benchmarks Against Leading Open-Weight Models from the US, China, and France. SEOUL, South Korea, July 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- On July 15, the LG AI Research unveiled EXAONE 4.0, the first open-weight hybrid... |
| 21.05.2025 | DEVELOPERS CAN NOW DEPLOY MULTIMODAL MODALS ON HUGGING FACE USING FRIENDLIAI’S GPU INFERENCE | GPU-optimized AI inference platform enables developers to easily deploy, scale, and operate generative AI models without investing in complex infrastructure. REDWOOD CITY, CALIFORNIA , UNITED STATES, May 21, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Frien... |
| 22.01.2025 | FriendliAI and Hugging Face Announce Strategic Partnership | Developers will be able to utilize FriendliAI's accelerated generative AI infrastructure service to deploy and serve models in the Hugging Face Hub REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jan. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- FriendliAI, a leader in accelerated gene... |
| 24.06.2024 | FriendliAI Integrates With Weights & Biases to Streamline Gen AI Deployment Workflows | FriendliAI and Weights & Biases Integration to bring ML Developers to enjoy seamless deployment FriendliAI, the leading generative AI infrastructure company, announced an integration with Weights & Biases, the leading AI developer p... |
| 04.04.2024 | FriendliAI Introduces Friendli Dedicated Endpoints, A Managed Service Version of Friendli Container to Increase Accessibility | REDWOOD CITY, Calif., April 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- FriendliAI, a frontrunner in inference serving for generative AI, is thrilled to announce Friendli Dedicated Endpoints, which offers the capabilities of Friendli Container as a managed ser... |
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