TrueFoundry · Jul 2026
TrueFoundry announced Wafer integration for unified OpenAI-compatible access, observability, and governance.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Wafer is a San Francisco-based AI infrastructure company that builds AI agents to optimize AI hardware and inference, focusing on maximizing performance per watt across the full serving stack.
Primary product
Wafer Pass and Wafer Dedicated Capacity for optimized serverless and dedicated LLM inference
Founded
2025
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10 employees
Work style
Remote
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
AI infrastructure / LLM inference optimization
Offices
Business model
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$4.5M
Latest round
Seed · Apr 2026
Latest amount
$4M
Leadership
Co-Founder and CEO
Co-Founder
Founding GTM & Growth
Technical Staff
Member of Technical Staff
Member of Technical Staff
Investors
Small, in-person team in San Francisco with an engineering-heavy, performance-oriented culture centered on building faster AI infrastructure and hiring for GPU development.
Work style
Remote
Pricing
Subscription and enterprise/dedicated endpoints; public Wafer Pass pricing starts at $10/week for Starter and $25/week for Privacy, with dedicated enterprise plans available by contact.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
TrueFoundry · Jul 2026
TrueFoundry announced Wafer integration for unified OpenAI-compatible access, observability, and governance.
RuntimeWire · Jul 2026
Coverage of Wafer's AMD MI355X benchmark claims, including 2626 tok/s/node and cost-performance comparisons versus Nvidia Blackwell.
Vercel · Jun 2026
Vercel added GLM 5.2 Fast via Wafer to AI Gateway and highlighted throughput gains on serverless inference.
Wafer · Mar 2026
Wafer described its reward-hacking research and announced GLM-5.2 availability via Vercel AI Gateway and OpenRouter.
Wafer
Wafer launched KernelArena, an open platform for benchmarking AI-generated GPU kernels across models and hardware.