Decentralized compute marketplace and open-stack platform for training AI models
AI📍 San Francisco, CAFounded 2024
Current Valuation
Private
as of 2025-Q1
PRIVATE
IPO Outlookprivate
Is Prime Intellect going public?
No. Prime Intellect is private and has not filed to go public. There is no S-1 on file.
What is Prime Intellect's valuation in 2026?
No confirmed valuation is on record for Prime Intellect. The roster shows funding and investors where they are public; it does not estimate a mark.
Has Prime Intellect filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for Prime Intellect.
Who are Prime Intellect's investors?
Prime Intellect's investors include Founders Fund, Menlo Ventures, CoinFund, Distributed Global.
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.
Prime Intellect is building an open, decentralized stack for training AI models — combining a global compute marketplace with tooling for reinforcement-learning post-training, environments, evaluations, and inference. The company demonstrated decentralized training with its INTELLECT-1 open model run. In February 2025, Prime Intellect raised a $15M Series A led by Founders Fund, bringing total funding to over $20M to advance its open-superintelligence-stack thesis.
Company Profile
CEO
Vincent Weisser
Founded
2024
HQ
San Francisco, CA
Employees
~30
Total Raised
$20.5M
Growth
Early-stage; compute marketplace + open-model training momentum
Last Round
Series A — $49.94M (Jan 2026) · Lead: Founders Fund
IPO Status
private
Fundraising Status
Series A · $49.94M · 7 mo ago
privateTotal raised $20.5M
Secondary Market
Implied price / share
$5
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 A
$49.94M
Jan 2026
Founders Fund
—
Vertical Intelligence — AI / ML
Open models
53
Downloads (30d)
0
across all models
Followers
692
Attributed to Hugging Face organization "Prime Intellect" as of 2026-08-20. 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
25
via ashby
Product-build share
44%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
steady
balanced build + GTM — 44% builders vs 56% 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
Research Engineer - Distributed TrainingResearch Engineer - Reinforcement LearningMember of Technical Staff - Full Stack Software EngineerApplied Research - Evals & DataMember of Technical Staff - GPU InfrastructureApplied Research - RL & Agents
Counted from Prime Intellect'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
Vincent WeisserJohannes Hagemann
Investors
Founders Fund · Menlo Ventures · CoinFund · Distributed Global
Products
Global compute marketplace (multi-cloud + crypto-native GPU pools)
INTELLECT-1: open decentralized LLM training run
Prime Intellect Stack (RL post-training, environments, evals, inference)
Competitors
Together AI · Lambda Labs · io.net · Render Network
AI ComputeDecentralizedOpen SourceGPU MarketplaceCrypto-adjacent
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2025-Q1. Refreshed quarterly.