The fastest and most efficient platform for high-performance AI inference and model customization.
Artificial Intelligence📍 Redwood City, CAFounded 2022
Current Valuation
$18B
as of 2026-Q3
DECACORN
IPO Outlookprivate
Is Fireworks AI going public?
No. Fireworks AI is private and has not filed to go public. There is no S-1 on file.
What is Fireworks AI's valuation in 2026?
Fireworks AI is valued at $18B as of 2026-Q3, set by its Series D ($1.5B, Jul 2026). That is the last confirmed mark, not a live price — private shares do not trade continuously.
Has Fireworks AI filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for Fireworks AI.
Who are Fireworks AI's investors?
Fireworks AI's investors include Lightspeed Venture Partners, Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Benchmark, Databricks Ventures, NVIDIA and 8 more.
Answers are derived from the roster record shown on this page — filing status, last round and confirmed marks. Where the record is silent, the answer says so rather than guessing.
Fireworks AI is a high-performance inference cloud that enables developers to build and deploy production-grade generative AI applications. The platform specializes open models on customer data and optimizes them for speed and cost, serving over 40 trillion tokens daily for thousands of enterprise customers.
Company Profile
CEO
Lin Qiao
Founded
2022
HQ
Redwood City, CA
Employees
189
Total Raised
$1.8B
Est. Revenue
$1.0B (2026-07)
Growth
Hypergrowth ($1B ARR milestone)
Last Round
Series D — $1.5B (Jul 2026) · Lead: Atreides Management, Index Ventures & TCV
IPO Status
private
Fundraising Status
Series D · $1.5B · 1 mo ago
privateTotal raised $1.8B
Secondary Market
Implied price / share
$41.64
Last round price / share
$19.92
vs last round
+109.0%
Open interest
8
Last round price vs secondary price
Secondary price return by period
Implied per-share price from private secondary transactions, as of Jun 2026. This is a point estimate, not a quote — the feed carries no bid, ask or spread, and a secondary print is evidence of what someone paid on that date rather than a live market. Compare across every tracked name →
Latest Funding Round
Round
Amount
Date
Lead Investor
Post-Money
Series D
$1.5B
Jul 2026
Atreides Management, Index Ventures & TCV
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Vertical Intelligence — AI / ML
Open models
0
Downloads (30d)
0
across all models
Followers
2
Attributed to Hugging Face organization "Fireworks AI" as of 2026-08-19. Open-weights footprint only — closed-model usage is not publicly measurable. Verify on Hugging Face ↗
Talent Signal
Hiring trend
● First snapshot
trend accrues with monthly sweeps
Open roles
60
via ashby
Product-build share
37%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
steady
balanced build + GTM — 37% builders vs 63% go-to-market/G&A — scaling both sides.
Actively hiring with no tracked executive churn.
Open roles by month
Open roles by function
■ product-building ■ go-to-market / G&A
AI Product Engineer - NexusMTS, Research EngineerMember of Technical Staff, Cloud Infrastructure, SingaporeApplied Machine Learning Engineer, SingaporeMember of Technical Staff, AI Training InfrastructureApplied Machine Learning Engineer
Counted from Fireworks AI's live job board as of 2026-08-17; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.
Founders & Key People
Lin QiaoDmytro DzhulgakovDmytro IvchenkoBenny ChenJames ReedPawel GarbackiChenyu Zhao
Together AI · Anyscale · Replicate · OctoAI · Modal
AI InferenceLLMOpen SourceGPU OptimizationPyTorch
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2026-Q3. Refreshed quarterly.