Acquisition
Dec 2025Baseten acquired Parsed, a reinforcement-learning and post-training startup, bringing its team and technology into Baseten to unify inference, training, evaluation, and post-training.
SourceCompany research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 5, 2026
Overview
Baseten is a San Francisco AI-infrastructure company founded in 2019. It provides the infrastructure, model-serving software, optimization expertise, and GPU capacity needed to deploy, train/post-train, and operate open-source, fine-tuned, and custom AI models in production. Its positioning is centered on high-performance, reliable, observable, cost-efficient inference for AI-native companies and enterprises.
Primary product
Baseten Inference Stack: managed production model deployment and inference, including Model APIs, dedicated model deployments, Baseten Training/post-training, autoscaling, observability, billing, and developer tooling. Truss is its open-source model-packaging framework.
Founded
2019
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
200–300
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Software Development / AI infrastructure
Sub-industry
Machine-learning model serving, generative-AI inference, GPU cloud and AI developer infrastructure
Offices
San Francisco, California, United States (HQ)
New York/Manhattan, New York, United States
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Business model
Usage-based managed inference billed by GPU time for dedicated deployments
Per-token Model APIs for hosted open-source models
Enterprise contracts with negotiated compute discounts, SLAs, and private or hybrid deployment
Funding
People & investors
Leadership
CEO and Co-Founder
CTO and Co-Founder
Co-Founder and Chief Scientist
Colin McGrath
Head of Infrastructure
Work & culture
Public materials describe a small, scrappy, high-ownership engineering culture with strong customer proximity, technical ambition, agency, and fast growth. The company emphasizes forward-deployed engineering, customer collaboration, and integrating customer-driven work into the core product; it also holds twice-yearly in-person offsites. The stated environment is high-intensity and fast-changing.
Work style
Flexible
Visa sponsorship
Yes
Compensation
Public job and immigration data indicate top-of-market compensation intent, meaningful equity, and H-1B sponsorship. 2025 H-1B filings reported by a secondary visa dataset show a median sponsored salary of approximately $181,272, with disclosed sponsored-role ranges roughly $133,952–$275,000; individual postings should be checked for current bands.
Benefits
Competitive salary and stock grants
Parental leave
16 paid company holidays
Unlimited PTO with a stated minimum
Company-wide winter break
Medical, dental, and vision coverage; public recruiting material says 100% coverage for employees and dependents
Fertility and family-building stipend
401(k)
Travel-to-office budget for remote employees
Product & market
Pricing
Usage-based: dedicated deployments are priced by active GPU-minute, while Model APIs are priced per input/output token. Enterprise customers may receive negotiated pricing, SLAs, and private or hybrid deployment terms.
Differentiators
- —Open-source Truss framework for packaging custom models
- —Dedicated deployment support for open-source, fine-tuned, and proprietary models
- —Multi-cloud, multi-region, multi-model, and multi-GPU architecture
- —Focus on latency, throughput, uptime, observability, and cost efficiency
- —Self-hosting/private deployment and security/compliance options
- —Forward-deployed engineering that works directly with demanding customers
- —Integration of inference, training, evaluation, and post-training after the Parsed acquisition
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
$1M–$10M according to the available company-profile estimate; Baseten separately reported 20x year-over-year revenue growth in its June 2026 Series F announcement. A third-party July 2026 estimate claimed approximately $600M annualized revenue, but this is not independently verified.
Signals & risks
Other
Jun 2026Series F increased the valuation to $13 billion and followed a reported 20x year-over-year revenue increase and 40x inference-volume increase. These figures are company-reported and imply substantial execution and scale expectations.
SourceLatest news
Baseten · Jun 2026
Baseten announced a $1.5B Series F at a $13B valuation, led by Altimeter, Conviction, and Spark, with major institutional participation.
Business Wire · Jan 2026
The Series E was anchored by IVP, CapitalG, and NVIDIA; the company reported $585M raised at that point and disclosed the Parsed acquisition and AWS collaboration.
Business Wire · Dec 2025
Parsed joined Baseten to add reinforcement learning and post-training capabilities to its inference platform.
Business Wire · Sep 2025
Baseten raised $150M at a $2.15B valuation, led by BOND, bringing reported cumulative capital to more than $285M.
Open Positions
64 jobs at Baseten
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