Startup · United States

Fireworks AI

HQ San MateoFounded 202251-200 employees

Fireworks’ state of the art training and inference platform take you beyond the frontier, transforming open models into your specialized intelligence.

Series D · Jul 16, 2026

Systems

Funding4 rounds · $1.83B

Equity raised: $1.83B
Latest: $1.50BSeries D · Jul 16, 2026
Last valuation: $17.50B?Basis not stated · Series D · Jul 16, 2026

Cumulative raised$1.83B

Mar 27, 2024Jul 16, 2026

Valuation over time$17.50B · Jul 16, 2026

Valuations by round
Announced	Stage	Valuation	Basis
Jul 11, 2024	Series B	$552M	Basis not stated
Oct 28, 2025	Series C	$4.00B	Basis not stated
Jul 16, 2026	Series D	$17.50B	Basis not stated

Funding rounds
Announced	Stage	Amount	Valuation	Lead investors	Other investors	Confidence
Jul 16, 2026	Series D	$1.50B	$17.50B?	Atreides Management, Index Ventures, TCV	20VC, Bessemer Venture Partners, Evantic Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, NVIDIA	Confirmed
Oct 28, 2025	Series C	$250M	$4.00B?	Evantic Capital, Index Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners	AMD, Databricks Ventures, MongoDB Ventures, NVIDIA, Sequoia Capital	Confirmed
Jul 11, 2024	Series B	$52.0M	$552M?	Sequoia Capital	AMD, Benchmark, Databricks Ventures, MongoDB Ventures, NVIDIA	Confirmed
Mar 27, 2024	Series A	$25.0M	—	Benchmark	Databricks Ventures, Sequoia Capital	Reported

Series D
Led by Atreides Management, Index Ventures, TCV
With 20VC, Bessemer Venture Partners, Evantic Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, NVIDIA
Valuation $17.50B?
Confirmed
$1.50B
Jul 16, 2026
Series C
Led by Evantic Capital, Index Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners
With AMD, Databricks Ventures, MongoDB Ventures, NVIDIA, Sequoia Capital
Valuation $4.00B?
Confirmed
$250M
Oct 28, 2025
Series B
Led by Sequoia Capital
With AMD, Benchmark, Databricks Ventures, MongoDB Ventures, NVIDIA
Valuation $552M?
Confirmed
$52.0M
Jul 11, 2024
Series A
Led by Benchmark
With Databricks Ventures, Sequoia Capital
$25.0M
Mar 27, 2024

Raised counts equity rounds; debt, secondary sales and grants are totaled separately. Amounts in other currencies are converted at the announcement month's average rate. A ~ marks an estimated or converted amount.

Systems5

FireConnect CLI

A command‑line tool that configures and launches Fireworks services in developers’ existing code‑generation harnesses.

Maturity not rated

FireLLaVA 13B

A vision model offered by Fireworks AI.

Maturity not rated

FireRouter

An intelligent routing engine that scores each request and selects the most cost‑effective model path.

Maturity not rated

Firesearch OCR V6

An OCR vision model provided by Fireworks AI.

Maturity not rated

Fireworks Nexus

A platform for using open AI models in development tools.

Maturity not rated

Newest unveiled first. Open a system for its milestone timeline, components and sources.

People7

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Benny Chen
Co-Founder
Chenyu Zhao
Co-Founder
Dmytro Dzhulgakov
Co-Founder
Dmytro Ivchenko
Co-Founder
James Reed
Co-Founder
Lin Qiao
Co-Founder, CEO
Pawel Garbacki
Co-Founder

Sources11

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Profile4

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CompanyOwn Your Specialized Intelligence | Fireworks
Fireworks AI · Supports Organization · description, Organization · name, Organization · website
“Fireworks’ state of the art training and inference platform take you beyond the frontier, transforming open models into your specialized intelligence.”
2
DatabaseFireworks AI - PitchBook company profile
PitchBook · Supports Organization · employee range, Organization · founded year, Organization · linkedin url, Organization · x url
“employee_range: 51-200 (profile: 148)”
3
DatabaseSixth-Domain public startups directory
Sixth-Domain · Supports Organization · country, Organization · kind
“{"country": "USA", "hq_iso2": "US", "id": "b71fd1fa-5889-4911-89fe-31a1daaf736c"}”
4
DatabaseFireworks AI - LinkedIn company profile
LinkedIn · Supports Organization · employee range, Organization · founded year, Organization · hq city, Organization · linkedin url
“employee_range: 51-200 (profile: 51-200 employees)”

Systems2

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CompanyTry Open Source LLMs & Image Models | Deploy in Seconds
Fireworks AI · Supports System
“Firesearch OCR V6** \ 8192 Context \ Vision”
6
CompanyFireworks Nexus
Fireworks AI · Supports System
“Intelligent routing Developers set FireRouter as the model for optimal price-performance routing. - •Each request is scored and routed to the optimal model for the task - •Difficult tasks pass through to your closed provider on your key”

Funding4

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CompanyFireworks Secures $1.5 Billion in Series D Funding
Fireworks AI · Jul 15, 2026 · Supports Funding round · amount, Funding round · post money valuation usd, Organization · ownership
“Fireworks announced a $1.505 billion Series D at a $17.5 billion valuation”
8
CompanyFireworks Raises $250M Series C to Power the Future of Enterprise AI
Fireworks AI · Oct 28, 2025 · Supports Funding round · amount, Funding round · post money valuation usd
“$250 million Series C at a $4 billion valuation”
9
CompanyFireworks Raises $52M Series B to Lead Industry Shift to Compound AI Systems
Fireworks AI · Jul 11, 2024 · Supports Funding round · amount, Funding round · post money valuation usd
“$52M Series B funding round led by Sequoia Capital”
10
NewsFireworks AI Raises $25M in Series A Funding
FinSMEs · Mar 27, 2024 · Supports Funding round · amount, Funding round · investors
“raised $25M in Series A funding”

People1

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CompanyFireworks AI - team page
Fireworks AI · Supports Role
“Lin Qiao Co-Founder, CEO”

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