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Announcing our Series D and $1B ARR
Fireworks AI announced a $1.505 billion Series D round at a $17.5 billion valuation, led by Atreides Management, Index Ventures, and TCV, as the company surpasses $1 billion in annualized revenue. The funding will expand compute infrastructure and engineering to support the company's platform for building specialized AI trained on proprietary customer data.
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Summary
Fireworks AI announced a $1.505 billion Series D round at a $17.5 billion valuation, led by Atreides Management, Index Ventures, and TCV, as the company surpasses $1 billion in annualized revenue. The funding will expand compute infrastructure and engineering to support the company's platform for building specialized AI trained on proprietary customer data.
Tags
series-d · fundraising · specialized-intelligence · inference · open-models · ai-infrastructure · venture-capital
Key entities
Fireworks AI (organization, 0.99) · Atreides Management (organization, 0.95) · Index Ventures (organization, 0.95) · TCV (organization, 0.95) · Lightspeed Venture Partners (organization, 0.9) · Nvidia (organization, 0.92) · Bessemer Venture Partners (organization, 0.9) · Menlo Ventures (organization, 0.9) · Evantic Capital (organization, 0.9) · 20VC (organization, 0.85) · Cursor (organization, 0.85) · Harvey (organization, 0.85) · Microsoft (organization, 0.8) · Hathora (organization, 0.8) · Series D Funding Round (event, 0.97) · specialized intelligence (concept, 0.95) · inference infrastructure (concept, 0.88)
Classification
memo · language en · status final
Provenance
claude-opus-4-6 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 21 Jul 2026