# Baseten: physical AI company

Canonical ID: `61eb3030-04a2-404c-9c04-788f98a0f3cf`

## Key facts

- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California
- **Founded:** 2019
- **Positioning:** Inference-focused platform serving mid-market AI-native customers; runs on partner GPU capacity rather than owning datacenters
- **Most recent round:** $150M Series D, September 5, 2025, led by BOND (CapitalG, Conviction, IVP, Spark, Greylock, 01A, Premji Invest, BoxGroup, Scribble Ventures participating); Jay Simons joined the board
- **Prior round:** $75M Series C, February 25, 2025, co-led by IVP and Spark Capital with Greylock, Conviction, South Park Commons, Basecase, Lachy Groom and 01A (Adam Bain, Dick Costolo)
- **Named customers:** Abridge, Cursor, Notion, Writer, Descript, Sourcegraph, Clay, Zed, Gamma, Bland, Lovable, OpenEvidence
- **Datacenter model:** Multi-cloud Inference Cloud on partner GPU capacity (hyperscalers and colocation); no publicly disclosed owned MW or GPU inventory
- **Announced hourly pricing:** No standard public per-GPU-hour rate card; sold as per-model API pricing or dedicated deployments quoted per customer
- **Open-source stack:** Truss (model packaging) and Chains (compound AI orchestration) released under permissive license
- **Ownership status:** Private, venture-backed

- **Slug:** baseten
- **Status:** active
- **Founded:** 2019
- **HQ:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Funding total (USD):** 300000000

## Models

_No models registered._

## Current leadership (3)

- [Tuhin Srivastava](/people/tuhin-srivastava.md) Co-founder and CEO (_reported, not verified_)
- [Amir Haghighat](/people/amir-haghighat.md) Co-founder and CTO (_reported, not verified_)
- [Pankaj Gupta](/people/pankaj-gupta.md) Co-founder (_reported, not verified_)

## Supplies to

_No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this company's outbound edges._

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## Common questions

### What is Baseten?

Baseten is a San Francisco inference platform that sits on top of GPU capacity rather than owning it. Founded in 2019 by ex-Gumroad machine-learning engineers Tuhin Srivastava, Amir Haghighat, and Pankaj Gupta, the company packages open-source and customer-owned models behind a low-latency serving layer, its Truss packaging framework, and the Chains orchestration runtime for compound AI pipelines. In the neocloud landscape it is positioned as an inference-focused mid-market and long-tail platform, not a hyperscale training host: workloads run across the company's Inference Cloud on partner GPU capacity in AWS, GCP and dedicated colocation, with Baseten selling engineering support, autoscaling and cost optimization on top.

### What does Baseten make?

Baseten has no robot models recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Baseten builds physical robots.

### Is Baseten publicly traded?

No. Baseten is privately held and not publicly traded, per the DEPLOY registry.

### How can I invest in Baseten?

Baseten is a private company; its shares are not available on public markets, so retail investors cannot buy the stock today. It has raised $300M in disclosed funding.

### Where is Baseten headquartered?

Baseten is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

### How much funding has Baseten raised?

Baseten has raised approximately $300M in disclosed funding on record in the DEPLOY registry.

### Who owns Baseten?

Baseten is privately held and venture-backed ($300M raised); ownership sits with its founders and private investors.

### Is Baseten a top robotics company?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, Baseten ranks in roughly the top 100% of companies tracked by the registry.

### When was Baseten founded?

Baseten was founded in 2019.


## Sources (4)

1. https://www.baseten.co/blog/announcing-baseten-150m-series-d/
2. https://www.baseten.co/blog/announcing-baseten-75m-series-c/
3. https://www.baseten.co/about/
4. https://www.baseten.co/blog/

## The verified answers

- [Which companies have the most robots deployed](/which-companies-have-the-most-robots-deployed.md)
- [Which operators run the most robots](/which-operators-run-the-most-robots.md)
- [Which robot operators cover the most countries](/which-robot-operators-cover-the-most-countries.md)

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