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Baseten Stock (BAST)
Baseten provides the necessary infrastructure, tooling, and expertise to integrate AI into business operations.
About Baseten Stock
Founded
2019
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA, US
Total Funding
2.5B
Industries
Software, Data and Analytics, Science and Engineering
Baseten is a technology company providing cloud infrastructure dedicated to machine learning model deployment, serving, and inference orchestration. Its platform enables engineering teams to package, run, and scale custom or open-source AI models across multi-cloud and self-hosted environments without directly managing underlying server operations. Baseten's stated mission is to power the world’s AI-driven applications.
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The 19 Largest Global Startup Funding Rounds of June 2026
alleywatch • Jul 28, 2026
What’s The Difference Between Open Weight And Open Source AI?
techround • Jul 21, 2026
Baseten Closes $1.5 Billion Series F Financing
vcnewsdaily • Jul 03, 2026
The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 6/29/26
alleywatch • Jun 30, 2026
Open-source AI models benefit from restrictions on frontier systems, Citi says
investing • Jun 29, 2026
Baseten Management
Leadership team at Baseten
Co-Founder & CTO
Amir Haghighat
Co-Founder & CEO
Tuhin Srivastava
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Baseten Key Facts
- Capital Expansion & Tier-1 Valuation Step-Up: In June 2026, Baseten secured a Series F funding round of $1.5 billion co-led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction, and Spark Capital, alongside Sands Capital and Wellington Management. The split-tranche transaction valued the company at up to $13 billion, higher than its $5 billion Series E valuation in January 2026, bringing Baseten’s total capital raised to over $2 billion. This repricing displays investor confidence in Baseten's position as a primary independent infrastructure provider for serving open-weight and post-trained AI models.
- High-Volume Scale and Operational Performance: As of June 2026, Baseten achieved 20x year-over-year revenue growth and a 40x expansion in inference volume, processing over 1 billion daily inference calls across 87 global clusters and 18 cloud providers. This growth is driven by enterprise adoption from partners like Cursor, Notion, HubSpot, Harvey, OpenEvidence, and Abridge, who rely on Baseten to run production-grade specialized models with auto-scaling, low latency, and high reliability.
- Multi-Cloud Efficiency & Ecosystem Expansion: To reduce customer reliance on closed-source model APIs and mitigate vendor lock-in, Baseten finalized a strategic collaboration agreement with AWS and acquired Parsed to enhance custom post-training and data optimization capabilities. By routing compute across its multi-cloud framework, Baseten enables customers to shift 30% to 50% of their model spend toward customized, post-trained open-weight architectures.
- Valuation Multiples Create High Execution Pressure Amid Capital Raising: Baseten’s recent rapid fundraising, with four rounds in the last 18 months and revenue scaling, can create market pressure to sustain hypergrowth in an increasingly commoditized layer of the AI stack.
- Gross Margin Squeeze and Supply Bottlenecks in Compute Reselling: Baseten faces structural margin pressure from volatile GPU spot prices and global supply constraints driven by frontier model builders. At the same time, heavily funded competitors like Together AI ($7.5B valuation) and Modal ($4.65B valuation) aggressively undercut pricing and push low-latency infrastructure, creating ongoing risks to gross margins.
- Competitive Encroachment from Hyperscalers and Specialized Hardware Integrators: Major cloud platforms such as AWS Bedrock, Azure AI, Google Vertex AI, and chip-level integrators continue to expand their native inference deployment tooling. Hyperscalers possess the ability to bundle inference infrastructure with existing enterprise credits or price serverless workloads near marginal cost, which may threaten Baseten's primary value proposition of providing lower-cost open-source inference.
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