Baseten raises $1.5 billion in Series F round

[{"h":"The round","p":"Baseten announced a $1.5 billion Series F round on June 22, 2026, valued at up to $13 billion — one of the largest US startup raises that month, according to Crunchbase."},{"h":"What the company does","p":"Baseten operates in AI inference infrastructure — the layer responsible for running and serving AI models in production, at scale, once they've already been trained."},{"h":"Market context","p":"The round reflects growing demand for specialized inference infrastructure as more companies move from testing generative AI to running it in production at volume."}]