Korean AI chip startup building data-center inference accelerators
AI📍 Seoul, South KoreaFounded 2017
Current Valuation
$800M
as of 2025-Q2
PRIVATE
IPO Outlookrumored
Is FuriosaAI going public in 2027?
An IPO is rumored for 2027, with nothing filed. FuriosaAI remains private and the date is not the company's.
What is FuriosaAI's valuation in 2026?
FuriosaAI is valued at $800M as of 2025-Q2, set by its Series C ($100M, Apr 2025). That is the last confirmed mark, not a live price — private shares do not trade continuously.
Has FuriosaAI filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for FuriosaAI as of 08/23/2026; the IPO is rumored.
Who are FuriosaAI's investors?
FuriosaAI's investors include DSC Investment, Naver, Kakao, Bloom Investments, Korea Development Bank.
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.
FuriosaAI develops the RNGD (Renegade) NPU optimized for large language model inference. Reportedly turned down a $800M acquisition offer from Meta in 2025 to remain independent. Key non-NVIDIA inference accelerator option for Korean and Japanese hyperscalers.
Company Profile
CEO
June Paik
Founded
2017
HQ
Seoul, South Korea
Employees
~120
Total Raised
$250M
Last Round
Series C — $100M (Apr 2025) · Lead: DSC Investment
IPO Status
rumored
Fundraising Status
Series C · $100M · 1y 4mo ago
rumoredTotal raised $250M
Latest Funding Round
Round
Amount
Date
Lead Investor
Post-Money
Series C
$100M
Apr 2025
DSC Investment
—
Vertical Intelligence — AI / ML
Open models
0
Downloads (30d)
0
across all models
Followers
5
Attributed to Hugging Face organization "FuriosaAI" 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
55%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
steady
product-led hiring — 55% of open roles build product; the rest are go-to-market and G&A.
Actively hiring with no tracked executive churn.
Open roles by month
Open roles by function
■ product-building ■ go-to-market / G&A
Software Engineer, Technical Writer & Document SpecialistTechnical Program ManagerSecurity EngineerAI Research EngineerAI Chip ArchitectDesign Verification Engineer
Counted from FuriosaAI'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
June Paik
Investors
DSC Investment · Naver · Kakao · Bloom Investments · Korea Development Bank
Products
Warboy (1st-gen NPU)
RNGD (2nd-gen LLM accelerator)
Competitors
NVIDIA · Groq · Cerebras · Tenstorrent · Etched
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Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2025-Q2. Refreshed quarterly.