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Impala AI, founded in 2025 in Tel Aviv, Israel, provides infrastructure to help enterprises reduce the cost of large language model inference.
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Funding history
- 2025-11Seed$11M
Investors · NFX, Viola VenturesSource · SVTR Weekly #129 ↗
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