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Prime Intellect

Prime Intellect, founded in 2023 and headquartered in San Francisco, builds decentralized AI training infrastructure.

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Total funding $145M📍 San Francisco · Silicon ValleyFounded 2023

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Prime Intellect, founded in 2023 and headquartered in San Francisco, builds decentralized AI training infrastructure. The company offers a full-stack toolkit covering compute, reinforcement learning, and evaluation, enabling enterprises to train their own agentic systems without relying on frontier AI labs. Customers include Ramp and Zapier, with an annualized revenue run rate of approximately $100 million.

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Timeline

  1. 2026-10-13M&AAcquired Moondream
  2. 2026-07-08FundingA轮$130M
  3. 2025-03FundingNew funding round$15M

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Sequoia Capital

7 Training & Inference Stack deals in the last 24 months · 5 at a nearby stage · 4 in 硅谷

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Spark Capital

6 Training & Inference Stack deals in the last 24 months · 2 at a nearby stage · 6 in 硅谷

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Index Ventures

4 Training & Inference Stack deals in the last 24 months · 1 at a nearby stage · 4 in 硅谷

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BoxGroup

3 Training & Inference Stack deals in the last 24 months · 2 at a nearby stage · 3 in 硅谷

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Benchmark

3 Training & Inference Stack deals in the last 24 months · 3 at a nearby stage · 1 in 硅谷

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3 Training & Inference Stack deals in the last 24 months · 1 at a nearby stage · 3 in 硅谷

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