TrueFoundry · Jul 2026
TrueFoundry announced Wafer integration for unified OpenAI-compatible access, observability, and governance.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 16, 2026
Overview
Wafer is an AI infrastructure startup that builds a tool to profile, optimize, and ship GPU kernels faster, from inside the developer’s editor. Public signals position it as an AI performance engineering platform focused on improving software efficiency across heterogeneous hardware.
Primary product
AI performance engineering / GPU kernel optimization platform
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
AI infrastructure / developer tools / performance engineering
Business model
B2B SaaS
usage-based / serverless inference and hosting
enterprise deployments
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$4.1M
Latest round
Seed · Apr 2026
Latest amount
$4M
Apr 2026 · Fifty Years
People & investors
Leadership
Co-Founder and CEO
Co-Founder
JV Cosico
Founding GTM & Growth
Member of Technical Staff
Work & culture
Public posts emphasize speed, technical ambition, experimentation, and performance-focused engineering. Hiring posts suggest a very small team with active growth.
Compensation
No public compensation bands or benefits evidence found on primary sources. Hiring activity exists, but pay details were not publicly available in the sources reviewed.
Product & market
Pricing
Publicly visible signals suggest consumption-based serverless pricing plus paid dedicated deployments / Wafer Pass-style plans, but no formal pricing page evidence was found in the reviewed sources.
Differentiators
- —Optimizes AI workloads across different silicon rather than only one vendor stack
- —Claims very high throughput and cost/performance on open models
- —Focuses on kernel-level optimization and performance engineering
- —Works inside the editor / developer workflow
- —Publicly reports benchmark-style performance claims and low token costs
Technology
OpenRouter
AMD MI355X
NVIDIA GPUs
Qwen
GLM
Kimi
Y Combinator
LinkedIn
Customers
AMD
Amazon
Competitors
Cerebras
Together AI
Fireworks AI
Baseten
Anyscale
Modal
Scale & contact
Estimated monthly visits
34.7K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Latest news
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.
Dealroom · Apr 2026
Reports Wafer raised $4M seed funding led by Fifty Years, with participation from Liquid2, Y Combinator, Jeff Dean, and Wojciech Zaremba.
Y Combinator · Apr 2026
YC post describing Wafer’s seed round and product direction for optimizing code across chips.
Jobs and careers at Wafer
3 jobs at Wafer
Founding Growth
On-site
Go To Market
San Francisco; San Francisco, California, United States
3w ago
On-site
Full-time
Chief of Staff
On-site
Operations
San Francisco; San Francisco, California, United States
3w ago
On-site
Full-time
Member of Technical Staff
On-site
Engineering
San Francisco
2mo ago
On-site
Full-time