{"id":298732,"date":"2026-01-23T02:44:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T02:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/298732\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T02:44:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T02:44:06","slug":"inference-startup-inferact-lands-150m-to-commercialize-vllm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/298732\/","title":{"rendered":"Inference startup Inferact lands $150M to commercialize vLLM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The creators of the open source project vLLM have <a href=\"https:\/\/inferact.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">announced<\/a> that they transitioned the popular tool into a VC-backed startup, Inferact, raising $150 million in seed funding at an $800 million valuation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The round was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed Venture Partners, confirming TechCrunch\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/01\/21\/sources-project-sglang-spins-out-as-radixark-with-400m-valuation-as-inference-market-explodes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">earlier reporting<\/a> that vLLM has raised capital from a16z.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Inferact\u2019s debut mirrors the recent commercialization of the SGLang project as RadixArk, which sources told us secured capital at a $400 million valuation led by Accel, as <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/01\/21\/sources-project-sglang-spins-out-as-radixark-with-400m-valuation-as-inference-market-explodes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">we reported<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the focus in AI shifts from training models to deploying them in applications, a process known as inference, technologies like vLLM and SGLang that make these AI tools run faster and more affordably are attracting investor attention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both vLLM and SGLang were incubated in 2023 at the UC Berkeley lab of Databricks co-founder Ion Stoica.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Inferact CEO Simon Mo, one of the project\u2019s original creators, told Bloomberg that existing users of vLLM include Amazon\u2019s cloud service and the shopping app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The creators of the open source project vLLM have announced that they transitioned the popular tool into a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[147885,147886,79,18,236,19,6257,43415,17,120935],"class_list":{"0":"post-298732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-ai-infrastrcuture","9":"tag-andressen-horowitz","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-entrepreneurship","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-in-brief","15":"tag-inference","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-lightspeed"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}