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Substrate raised $8M in a seed funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and others to expand its market for inference solutions and bring modern AI capabilities to all software engineers.

PRIVATEJun 20, 2024

Amount Raised

$8 Million

Round Type

Seed

New YorkSoftwareArtificial IntelligenceMachine Learning

Investors

Immad AkhundGuillermo RauchWill Gaybrick (Stripe)Craft VenturesSouth Park CommonsLightspeed Venture Partners

Description

Substrate, a NYC-based AI infrastructure startup, raised $8M in Seed funding. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from South Park Commons, Craft Ventures, Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Immad Akhund (Mercury), Will Gaybrick (Stripe), and others. The company intends to use the funds to expand its market for inference solutions and bring modern AI capabilities to all software engineers.

Quick answer

Substrate raised $8 Million in a Seed round, dated June 20, 2024. Investors: Immad Akhund, Guillermo Rauch, Will Gaybrick (Stripe), Craft Ventures, South Park Commons and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Substrate is based in New York, New York, United States.

How much did Substrate raise?
Substrate raised $8 Million in a Seed round on June 20, 2024.
Who invested in Substrate?
Immad Akhund, Guillermo Rauch, Will Gaybrick (Stripe), Craft Ventures, South Park Commons and Lightspeed Venture Partners are named as investors in this round.
What does Substrate do?
Multi-step AI programs that run fast.
Where is Substrate based and how big is it?
Substrate is based in New York, New York, United States.
Who are the decision-makers at Substrate?
Fundz holds 1 contact at Substrate, including the CTO. Names and contact details are shown to Fundz members.

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Company Information

Company

Substrate

Location

New York, New York, United States

About

Multi-step AI programs that run fast. Build using a cohesive modular API with optimized models, colocated file and vector storage, a code interpreter, and logical control flow. Substrate is designed to describe and run multi-inference workloads as fast as possible in a system that maximizes parallelism, throughput, and data locality. You'll get perfect parallelism, opportunistic batching, zero roundtrips, and near-instant communication between nodes – without writing any complex code. The traditional alternative is to make a series of requests to multiple API providers. But the result is often slow, expensive, and fragile – due to unnecessary roundtrips and unoptimized program flow.

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