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FriendliAI

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RiendliAI enables organizations to optimize their generative AI models efficiently and cost-effectively

San Francisco, United StatesFounded 2021AI

Valuation $100–250M Last recorded · 2025

Headcount <100 Current team size

Total funding $10–50M Disclosed equity funding

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About FriendliAI

FriendliAI is a platform that offers generative AI inference solutions for production. The company provides an inference engine for building production-ready AI systems and a serverless deployment model for generative AI applications, serving AI startups and digital-native companies.

FriendliAI's platform is designed to reduce GPU costs and enhance AI model performance. The company's offerings include Friendli Endpoints for building and serving custom generative AI models. The company was founded in 2021 and has offices in South Korea and the United States.

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At a glance

Status: Operational
Founded: 2021
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Employees: 62
Open positions: 7
Dealroom signal: 90.9/100
Industry: Enterprise Software
Sector: AI, Core AI, Spinout, Data Centers
Technology: Artificial Intelligence, Hardware, Big Data
Business model: SaaS
Client focus: b2b
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Funding history

3 recorded events

Company financing events and reported valuations.

Deal type	Date	Amount	Valuation	Investors	Source
EARLY VC✓Equity / VC	Aug 2025	$20M	$80M	Sierra Ventures · Korea Development Bank · Alumni Ventures · KB Securities	↗
SERIES A✓Equity / VC	Dec 2021	$6.7M	$27M	Capstone Partners · KB Investment · KB Securities	↗

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Growth signals

FriendliAI website traffic

Latest recorded traffic for FriendliAI is 88K monthly website visits, up 20.5% over the last three months. FriendliAI's team grew 34.8% over the past year.

Latest monthly visits88K 3-month web change+20.5% 1-year team growth+34.8%

Monthly website visitsSep 2022–Jul 2026

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Open positions

Openings linked to this company in Dealroom

Director of Product ManagementSan Francisco, CA · Project Management · Sep 6, 2026 Software Engineer – AI Inference EngineSan Francisco, California, United States, Northern America, Americas · Data Science & Engineering · Jul 21, 2026 Account ExecutiveSan Francisco, CA · Sales · Jun 21, 2026 Software Engineer – Platform SecuritySan Francisco, CA · Backend Development · Jun 20, 2026

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