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An artificial intelligence startup has secured $305 million in investment

Nigar Sultanli
21 February 2025 16:46
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An artificial intelligence startup has secured $305 million in investment

Together AI, a company operating in the field of artificial intelligence, has secured $305 million in investment in a Series B round led by General Catalyst. This investment has boosted the company's valuation to $3.3 billion. Prosperity7, Salesforce Ventures, Nvidia, Kleiner Perkins, SE Ventures, Greycroft, March Capital, Cadenza Ventures, and Caotue are among the firms that participated in this funding round.

Based in San Francisco, Together AI offers a cloud platform that enables developers and researchers to train and deploy productive artificial intelligence models. The platform supports over 200 open-source models, including Meta's Llama and China's DeepSeek.

Founded in 2022, Together AI had previously raised funding in a round led by Salesforce Ventures last year, bringing its valuation to $1.25 billion. The popularity of Nvidia's renowned GPUs played a key role in accelerating the company's growth.

According to Together AI, over 450,000 developers are currently active on its platform. Notable corporate clients include Salesforce, Zoom, SK Telecom, Zomato, Hedra, and The Washington Post.

Vipul Ved Prakash, CEO of Together AI, stated:

"Artificial intelligence is transforming every sector, driving new product categories, and enhancing productivity. We created a cloud-based company to adapt to these changes, combining high-performance infrastructure with the latest open-source models to deliver advanced AI solutions."

Together AI provides enterprise-level inference solutions, model training, fine-tuning services, as well as artificial data and code-interpreted workflows, among various AI-related services.

Marc Bhargava, Managing Director of General Catalyst, commented:

"Vipul Ved Prakash and his team have quickly built a leading company in AI, and we’ve witnessed this incredible growth firsthand."

Abhishek Shukla, Managing Director of Prosperity7 Ventures, added that recent developments in open-source artificial intelligence have demonstrated how Together AI is enabling organizations worldwide to easily access powerful and secure AI models.

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