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Startup · United States

Hoonify

HQ Albuquerque, New MexicoFounded 20211-10 employeesUpdated

Hoonify runs on TurbOS - the compute platform built for national labs, scientific computing, and mission-critical systems.

Website

Funding3 rounds · $9.7M

Equity raised
$9.7M
Debt, secondaries & grants
$25K
Latest
$6.0MSeries A · May 8, 2026
Cumulative raised$9.7M
May 30, 2024May 8, 2026

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.

Systems2

  • Hoonify InferenceAn inference‑as‑a‑service API that runs open‑source LLMs behind a single OpenAI‑compatible endpoint.
  • TurbOSSoftware for AI computing infrastructure.

Newest unveiled first. Systems that belong to a government program link to the program page, where variants, costs and contracts are.

People
PersonRole
Andrew Clark · LinkedIn ↗Co-Founder & CEO
Blake Kinnan · LinkedIn ↗Co-Founder & Engineer
Connor Brown · LinkedIn ↗Co-Founder & VP of Software Development
John Zivnuska · LinkedIn ↗Co-Founder and COO
Victor Kuhns · LinkedIn ↗Founder & CTO

Sources10

Profile2

  1. 1

    Hoonify · Supports Organization · description, Organization · name, Organization · website

    “Hoonify runs on TurbOS - the compute platform built for national labs, scientific computing, and mission-critical systems. That same operational discipline now powers every AI request you send, so your team builds on a foundation already trusted with the hardest jobs in computing.”
  2. 2

    Sixth-Domain · Supports Organization · kind

    “{"group": "startups", "id": "8be79733-1df7-4f36-b340-a6d965ac927f", "name": "Hoonify"}”

Systems2

  1. 3

    Hoonify · Supports System

    “EnterpriseAI Infrastructure, Built for Scale. Dedicated GPU capacity for teams that need control. Private on-premises deployment for teams that need sovereignty. Both powered by TurbOS - built on HPC infrastructure from day one”
  2. 4

    Hoonify · Supports System

    “AI Inference as a service, not a GPU cluster to run. Open models used to force a choice: rent a closed API and overpay, or self-host and inherit a fleet of GPUs and the headache of managing the stack. Hoonify Inference is the better path - the openness and economics of open weights, served for you on managed infrastructure, behind one standard API”

Funding5

  1. 5

    U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · May 8, 2026 · Supports Funding round · amount, Organization · ownership

    “Total Amount Sold $5,999,998 USD”
  2. 6

    U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · May 31, 2024 · Supports Funding round

    “Total Amount Sold $2,749,992 USD”
  3. 7

    Albuquerque Business First · May 30, 2024 · Supports Funding round · amount

    “Hoonify Technologies pulls in $3.75M from Montana VC”
  4. 8

    PitchBook · Supports Funding round, Organization · country, Organization · employee range, Organization · founded year, Organization · linkedin url, Organization · x url

    “Series A - Hoonify”
  5. 9

    Octen Business Search · Supports Funding round, Organization · hq region

    “funding round: Grant, 2023-01-24, USD 25,000, lead: New Mexico Economic Development Department”

People1

  1. 10

    Crunchbase · Supports Organization · country, Organization · employee range, Organization · hq city, Organization · linkedin url, Role

    “country: US”

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