Inference Secures $11.8 Million in Seed Funding on October 15, 2025

According to media reports, Inference completed a $11.8 million Seed funding round on October 15, 2025. The round was co-led by a16z CSX and Multicoin Capital, with participation from Topology Ventures, Founders Inc, and several other investors. The company also received backing from prominent individual investors, including Anatoly Yakovenko, Co-founder of Solana.Inference is a distributed GPU cluster inference platform built on Solana. The project aims to develop a global data center network, Inference.net, offering fast, scalable, pay-as-you-go API services for large language models such as DeepSeek V3 and Llama 3.3. As artificial intelligence continues to advance rapidly, demand for efficient and cost-effective AI inference infrastructure is rising. Leveraging an innovative distributed architecture and Solana’s high-performance capabilities, Inference is positioned to deliver more competitive solutions for the AI sector.This funding round reflects sustained investor confidence in the AI infrastructure space and underscores market recognition of blockchain-based approaches to optimizing AI computational resource allocation. Proceeds will primarily be used for technology development, infrastructure expansion, and global business growth, supporting Inference in enhancing its service ecosystem and providing superior inference services for AI developers and enterprises.