Prime Intellect
Prime Intellect, founded in 2023 and headquartered in San Francisco, builds decentralized AI training infrastructure.
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About
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
- 2026-10-13M&AAcquired Moondream
- 2026-07-08FundingA轮$130M
- 2025-03FundingNew funding round$15M
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Funding history
- 2026-07-08Series A$130M
Investors · Radical Ventures、Dell Technologies Capital、NVentures、Intel Capital、Iconiq Capital
- 2025-03$15M
Investors · Founders Fund、Menlo Ventures
Source · SVTR Weekly #094
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- 2026-10AcquirerMoondreamAcquisition
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