Tags: Series A

Deccan AI, a San Francisco‑based startup that supplies post‑training data and evaluation work for frontier AI models, closed a $25 million all‑equity Series A round led by A91 Partners with participation from Susquehanna International Group and Prosus Ventures. The company leverages a large India‑based contributor network to deliver services such as expert feedback generation, model evaluation, and reinforcement‑learning environments for customers that include Google DeepMind and Snowflake. With about 125 employees and a pool of over one million contributors, Deccan aims to meet the growing demand for high‑quality, time‑critical data that drives reliable AI deployment. Read more

Gimlet Labs, founded by former Pixie co‑founders including Stanford adjunct professor Zain Asgar, announced an $80 million Series A led by Menlo Ventures. The startup’s “multi‑silicon inference cloud” software lets AI workloads run simultaneously across CPUs, GPUs, and high‑memory systems, promising 3‑to‑10× faster inference at the same cost and power. Partnerships with major chip makers such as NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, ARM, Cerebras and d‑Matrix support the platform, which targets large model labs and data‑center operators. The round brings total funding to $92 million and backs a team of 30 employees. Read more