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Inferact is frontier inference you control. Built by the creators of vLLM, it lets you deploy on your GPUs or ours with open weight models and production performance. observed

Seed AI infra & dev tools fresh · evidence 7d ago 16 sources no confidence data

In: AI agents & frameworks

37.1/100
Venture signal
scored above 56% of pre-seed peers
Outlook Stable
Why this score? ↓

What is established three decisions, kept apart

  1. 1 Identity verified Yes

    Published in the index on >=2 sourced evidence families, including a funding source that names the company and its round at https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/inference-startup-inferact-lands-150m-to-commercialize-vllm/. Identity rests on that source, not on the name alone.

  2. 2 In the ranked index Yes

    The ranked index lists private AI companies with two or more independent sourced evidence families; its Early-stage view also leaves out rounds of $100M or more that no source assigns a stage. This profile is listed in the ranked index. It is a statement about evidence and mandate, and about nothing else.

  3. 3 Fit for a seed/Series-A sourcing buyer Qualified

    Institutional venture backing and a stage band inside seed..Series A are both evidenced below.

    Venture backing, as assessed: evidenced · Stage, as assessed: Seed

    Assessed 2026-10-24 for seed/Series-A sourcing.

Funding
$150M
2026-01-22
Adoption
no signal
downloads / week
Developer
not scored
momentum / 100
Hiring
26 ▲+2
eng openings
Commercial
sales-led
homepage

Composite signal v0 45 ±5 · 5 components

Five evidence lanes (activity, capital, infra, hiring, ecosystem) as within-cohort percentiles, combined with evidence-breadth weights over the 60-company baseline cohort. The ± band widens with missing lanes — it measures what the score stands on. 5 signals in the last 60 days back this number.

Engineering openings 24 → 26 over 23d

Counted from the company's own job board — each point a dated observation.

09-04 1909-11 2109-22 2009-23 2109-24 2209-30 2310-08 2510-14 2410-15 2511-05 26

Ecosystem

Derived connections from primary evidence — Form D officer rosters and shared lead investors. A shared name is a lead, not proof of identity.

investor andreessen horowitz → Replit investor andreessen horowitz → ElevenLabs investor andreessen horowitz → Neo investor andreessen horowitz → TypeSafe AI investor lightspeed → Nexthop AI

New infrastructure surfaces

Subdomains appearing in public certificate-transparency logs — infrastructure standing up, dated at detection. Intent labels are deterministic (token map), not guessed.

api.inferact.ai product surface 10-21 console.inferact.ai product surface 10-21

Traction

Latest cited round

Opportunity & risk

↗ Strongest signal: funding_magnitude (10% of the score).

↓ Scored on 2 of 4 components — adoption, developer had no computable metric.

13 independent sources 0 promoted signals inspect the evidence →

The skeptic's read what this company has said, judged against what happened

5 claims on record 0 verified 0 contradicted 3 not evaluated 2 insufficient temporal evidence

Not evaluated ≠ false — the deadline or the evidence hasn't arrived. A forecast with no target date cannot be graded and is counted as insufficient temporal evidence. Nothing here is editorial: every count is a ledger row you can open on the Proof page.

Evaluation

How it's evaluated Four independent layers ▾

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Platform score derived
37/100
Founder self-assessment claimed
11/100
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VIX signals 2 hard signals across 1 source ▾

The platform's own early signals for this company — hard-to-fake, and where one preceded a real raise, the measured lead.

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Technology No signals collected yet ▾
No technology data yet. This category is part of the record and will populate as evidence is collected or the founder provides it.
Team & hiring 2 of 3 signals present ▾
Team size (reported)
not provided
Open eng roles
26 observed
Total open roles
33 observed
Market & funding stage 3 of 3 signals present ▾
Latest round stage (as stated)
seed observed stale
Latest round amount
$150M observed stale
Latest round announced
2026-01-22 observed stale
Timeline 1 events ▾
  1. 2026-01-22 seed · $150M · Led by Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners

Evidence & scoring

Why this score? none_required ▾

VentureSignalScore 37.1/100 for inferact, composed from 2 of 4 components (ai_infra formula), discounted ×0.775 for 25% signal coverage

ComponentWeightNormalizedContribution
funding_recency 0.1 0.1922 0.0192
funding_magnitude 0.15 0.6704 0.1006

Evidence this score rests on

Narrative vs. reality No SEC filing found for this round

Reported narrative · Tier 2
$150M seed
announced 2026-01-22 · source ↗
Filed reality · Tier 0 · SEC
No SEC Form D on record.

An evidence gap, not proof of falsity: Form D is not always required (foreign offerings, certain exemptions) or may not be filed yet.

Financing events four different events, four different dates

A first sale, a filing, an amendment and a public announcement are not the same event, and one date may not stand in for another. Where the latest financing date cannot be established from what we hold, this says unknown rather than substituting a date we do have.

Latest established financing date
2026-01-22
Money moved on or after
2026-01-22
Total reported by
not established
Basis
reported round

A reported round dated 2026-01-22 by its own source.

Counterparty exposure shared-investor contagion

Companies coupled to this one by a shared investor — if a common backer pulls back or a fund hits trouble, the shock propagates across the set. More shared investors = tighter coupling.

ElevenLabs 1 shared andreessen-horo… Etched 1 shared andreessen-horo… Neo 1 shared andreessen-horo… Nexthop AI 1 shared lightspeed-vent… Preference Model 1 shared andreessen-horo… Replit 1 shared andreessen-horo… TypeSafe AI 1 shared andreessen-horo…

Community chatter Hacker News · Tier 3 · unverified manip. risk low · 0.02

Gray-market attention, not quality. 4+ HN mentions (peak 5 points). Claim-shaped headlines are rumors until corroborated — a Tier-3 factual claim carries no evidentiary weight on its own. ▲ 5 Inferact's Kimi K3 Megakernel hits 700 tok/s on TPU, Beating GPU 2026-09-24 ↗

Raw observations 34 current records ▾

Showing the 34 current records. Full observation history — 859 superseded records →

AttributeValueKindSourceObservedStateConf.
ai.document.claims {"claims": [{"claim": "Inferact is a startup founded by the creators and core maintainers of vLLM.", "quote": "Today, we're proud to announce Inferact , a startup founded by creators and core maintain observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-20 promoted 0.50
buyer_fit.assessment {"buyer": "seed/Series-A sourcing", "method": "Backlog pass 2026-10-24: applied the record_buyer_fit.ts fit rule to this company's held primary-source financing evidence (funding.round.* / sec.form_d. observed assessment 2026-10-24 normalized 0.90
buyer_fit.status qualified observed assessment 2026-10-24 normalized 0.90
common_name Inferact observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-14 normalized 0.90
common_name Inferact observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-14 normalized 0.60
common_name Inferact observed curated 2026-07-16 normalized 0.95
community.hn.max_points 5 observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-08 normalized 0.20
community.hn.mentions 4 observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-08 normalized 0.20
community.hn.rumors [] observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-08 normalized 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49826989", "title": "Inferact's Kimi K3 Megakernel hits 700 tok/s on TPU, Beating GPU", "points": 5, "created_at": "2026-09-24"} observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-24 normalized 0.20
description Inferact is frontier inference you control. Built by the creators of vLLM, it lets you deploy on your GPUs or ours with open weight models and production performance. observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-16 normalized 0.70
domain inferact.ai observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-14 normalized 0.95
early_signal.assessment {"rule": "operational-early-signal-v2", "missing": ["a financing round is held — assessed on the funding-verified path (buyer_fit), not as an operational signal", "fewer than two operational signal fa observed assessment 2026-11-06 normalized 0.90
early_signal.status insufficient observed assessment 2026-11-06 normalized 0.90
funding.round.amount_usd 150000000 observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-14 normalized 0.90
funding.round.announced_on 2026-01-22 observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-14 normalized 0.90
funding.round.lead_investors ["Andreessen Horowitz", "Lightspeed"] observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-14 normalized 0.90
funding.round.source_url https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/inference-startup-inferact-lands-150m-to-commercialize-vllm/ observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-14 normalized 0.90
funding.round.stage seed observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-14 normalized 0.90
gate.accumulation {"outcome": "document_created", "obs_count": 17, "source_id": "01KXZKZVK6HVDYTV326Z14DNNB", "trigger_path": "accumulation_gate", "collector_count": 4, "artifact_collector": "website_collector"} observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-20 normalized 0.60
identity.verification {"method": "Published in the index on >=2 sourced evidence families, including a funding source that names the company and its round at https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/inference-startup-inferact-lan observed assessment 2026-10-24 normalized 0.90
index.ai_tie AI_ADJACENT observed classify 2026-07-25 derived 0.60
jobs.board_url https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/inferact observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-24 normalized 0.85
jobs.postings.engineering 26 observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-05 normalized 0.85
jobs.postings.total 33 observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-05 normalized 0.85
metric.venture.funding_amount_usd 150000000 derived calc 2026-07-14 derived 0.90
metric.venture.funding_recency_days 295.3479 derived calc 2026-11-13 derived 0.90
score.venture_signal 37.1 derived calc 2026-11-12 derived 0.43
sector ai_infra derived calc 2026-11-06 normalized 0.75
signal.attributed_claims 5 observed intelligence.claims 2026-09-26 parsed 0.90
source.document.reference {"kind": "document", "title": "inferact: Inferact", "source_id": "01KXZKZVK6HVDYTV326Z14DNNB", "extract_ref": "artifact:sha256:8f9177d2155854edc32a628e78f7241bf6fd10a4ad545b38c5247f8d01405f33", "extra observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-20 normalized 0.95
website_url https://inferact.ai observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-14 normalized 0.90
website_url https://inferact.ai observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-14 normalized 0.95
website.homepage.has_pricing_link false observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-14 normalized 0.80