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Baseten Lands $150 Million Series D, Valuing the AI Inference Provider at $2.15 Billion

New funds will go toward performance research, infrastructure, developer tooling, plus customer team growth.

Overview

  • Bond led the $150 million round, with new investors CapitalG, Premji and Scribble joining and existing backers Conviction, 01a, IVP, Spark and Greylock participating.
  • The financing nearly triples Baseten’s valuation from its Series C six months ago, lifting it to $2.15 billion.
  • CEO Tuhin Srivastava reports revenue has grown by more than 10x over the past year, with customers including Abridge, OpenEvidence, Clay, Patreon and Writer.
  • Baseten focuses on running models in production, positioning its platform as core infrastructure for fast, reliable and cost‑efficient inference.
  • In May, the company launched Model APIs for open‑source models and Training features designed to improve inference performance.