Company record
Inferact
Updated November 2, 2026 · Presspool
Inferact was founded by the creators and core maintainers of vLLM to grow it as an AI inference engine and make inference cheaper and faster. inferact.ai
Funding
- $150 million Seed, announced January 22, 2026. Led by Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Sources: techcrunch.com.
Whether AI names Inferact
- On the AI infrastructure map: named or cited in 0 of 50 answers to Presspool's AI infrastructure questions on November 2, 2026 (ChatGPT 0 of 8, Claude 0 of 8, Perplexity 0 of 8, Gemini 0 of 8, Copilot 0 of 8, Google AI Mode 0 of 6, Google AI Overviews 0 of 4). See the map. AI named or cited 33 of the 54 companies on the map in that sample; Inferact was not one of them. AI names these companies most on AI infrastructure questions: Lambda (17 of 50), Crusoe (13 of 50), Together AI (11 of 50), Fireworks AI (10 of 50), Groq (10 of 50), LangChain (10 of 50) and Modal (10 of 50).
- Machine Relations Index: Cited in 0 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026.
Week by week
Answers that named or cited Inferact in each weekly sample of Presspool's AI infrastructure questions, by the Monday of the sample week. A row is added every week.
| Week of | AI infrastructure |
|---|---|
| September 21, 2026 | 0 of 39 |
| October 5, 2026 | 0 of 48 |
| October 12, 2026 | 1 of 50 |
| October 19, 2026 | 0 of 56 |
| October 26, 2026 | 0 of 53 |
| November 2, 2026 | 0 of 50 |
Related records
Also on the AI infrastructure map: Arcade, Baseten, Braintrust, Clockwork.io, Crusoe, Daytona, DeepInfra, Encord, Exa, fal, Fiddler AI, Firecrawl and 41 more on the map.
Andreessen Horowitz, which led this round, also led Eka Robotics ($150M Series A, October 20, 2026), TypeSafe AI ($870 million Series A, October 9, 2026), Ghost ($11 million Seed, October 5, 2026), Armadin ($255.5 million Series B, October 1, 2026), Aleph ($7.5 million Pre-seed, September 30, 2026) and EliseAI ($350 million, round type not disclosed, September 29, 2026). 3 more of its rounds are on its page.
Lightspeed Venture Partners, which led this round, also led LMArena ($200 million Series B, October 8, 2026), Harvey ($550M, round type not disclosed, September 9, 2026) and Sandstone ($30M Series A, June 9, 2026). It is also named as an investor in Different ($48 million Seed, October 20, 2026), Avarra ($17 million Series A, October 6, 2026) and Inworld AI ($50 million, round type not disclosed, August 2, 2023).