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Feb 2025 (implied)-May 2026 (RUMORED)
Jul 2024 (Series B)-Oct 2025 (Series C)
Jul 2024 (Series B)-Apr 2026
| Round (date, lead) | Amount Raised | Post-Money Valuation | Notable Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seed (2022) | Undisclosed | n/a | Benchmark, Y Combinator |
| Series A (2024-03, Benchmark) | $25M | n/a | Benchmark (lead), Sequoia, Databricks Ventures, angels (Frank Slootman, Alexandr Wang) |
| Series B (2024-07, Sequoia) | $52M | $552M | Sequoia (lead), Benchmark, NVIDIA, AMD, MongoDB Ventures, Databricks Ventures |
| Series C (2025-10, Lightspeed + Index) | $250M | $4B | Lightspeed and Index Ventures (co-leads), Evantic, Sequoia, NVIDIA, AMD, MongoDB |
| New round (2026-05, RUMORED, in talks) | Undisclosed | $15B (reported, not closed) | Index Ventures (co-lead, reported); round not closed |
| Customer | Workload | Relationship / Disclosed Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Cursor | Code completion (Tab) and agentic coding | Anchor account; Fireworks serves fine-tuned Llama-3-70b at ~1,000 tokens/sec via adaptive speculative decoding, ~2x a generic draft model. One of the highest-RPS AI products in the industry. |
| Notion | Notion AI across collaborative docs | Anchor account; standardized on Fireworks for low-latency LLM inference at scale. |
| Perplexity | AI search and answer generation | Named customer; high-volume real-time inference. |
| Uber | Internal AI / workflow inference | Named enterprise customer disclosed at Series C. |
| Sourcegraph | Real-time code assistance (Cody) | Public Fireworks case study on scaling code-generation latency. |
| DoorDash, Shopify, Samsung, Upwork | Consumer and workflow AI features | Named enterprise customers; per-account spend undisclosed. |

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Largest AI lab by revenue. Approximately $13B annualized run-rate revenue (mid-2025) from a mix of ChatGPT consumer subscriptions, ChatGPT Enterprise / Team, the OpenAI API, and Microsoft Azure OpenAI revenue share. ChatGPT reaches roughly 800M weekly active users (late 2025). Builder of the GPT family (GPT-4o, GPT-4.5, GPT-5, o-series reasoning models) and Sora video. Microsoft is the dominant compute and distribution partner; SoftBank led the $40B March 2025 primary round at $300B.