
AI · San Francisco, California
FriendliAI
A cloud-agnostic, enterprise-secure platform that democratizes production-grade GenAI across diverse cloud environments, enabling scalable deployments; it turns months of engineering work into minutes of API deployment, slashes GPU costs by 50–90%, and delivers sub-second latency at scale.
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- Locations
- San Francisco+1
- Also Seoul
- Team size
- 11-50
- Founded 2021
- Total raised
- $20M
- Seed · last round Aug '25
- Open roles
- 8
Open positions · 8
About FriendliAI
The company aims to democratise production-grade GenAI and provides cloud-agnostic, enterprise-secure infrastructure to support scalable AI deployments. By transforming months of engineering work into minutes of API deployment, it accelerates time-to-value for AI initiatives. It routinely slashes GPU spend by 50–90% and maintains sub-second latency at scale. In short, it positions itself as a secure, flexible, and cost-efficient platform for deploying production-grade GenAI across diverse cloud environments.
Funding
$20Mtotal raised
- Aug 2025 · Seed$20M
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Of 8 open roles, FriendliAI has 5 hybrid, 3 on-site positions.
FriendliAI is based in San Francisco, California.
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