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Fireworks AI, the San Mateo-based inference and custom-training platform, announced a $1.5B Series D at a $17.5B valuation on 7/16, led by Atreides Management, Index Ventures, and TCV, joined by Evantic, Lightspeed, and NVIDIA.

  1. Yao Zhang in SF (Co-Founder & CEO @ TensorScale AI) - building with #2

    1. Role: Early Member, Core Technical Team & SWE @ Fireworks AI (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Principal Architect @ Microsoft, Google, Ant Financial

    3. Description: "The AI stack was built for language models. We're rebuilding it for world models."

  2. Yun Tang in SF (Co-Founder @ TensorScale AI) - building with #1

    1. Role: Research Staff Member @ Fireworks AI (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Researcher @ Hippocratic AI, Research Scientist @ Samsung Research America, Research Scientist @ Meta, Chinese Academy of Sciences PhD EE, ACL 2023 Outstanding Paper Award

    3. Description: "Co-designing model architectures, inference algorithms, compilers, and hardware-aware systems instead of optimizing each layer in isolation"

  3. Marc Holmes in Seattle (Co-Founder @ Dome Systems)

    1. Role: CMO @ Fireworks AI (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: CMO @ HashiCorp (IPO —> acq by IBM for $6.4B), CSMO @ Pulumi, VP Marketing @ Chef, Head of Growth Marketing @ Docker, VP Revenue Marketing @ Hortonworks

    3. Description: "The agent-native governance platform for the enterprise" — co-founded with Dave McJannet (ex-HashiCorp CEO)

    4. Funding: Seed co-led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Redpoint Ventures, joined by Mango Capital on 4/26.

  4. Aishwarya Srinivasan in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: Head of AI Developer Relations @ Fireworks AI (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Developer Relations Lead @ Nebius, Data Scientist @ Google, Columbia MS Data Science

    3. Description: Stealth since 2/26

    4. Contact: [email protected]

  5. Shirley Jiang in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: Mid-Market AE @ Fireworks AI (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Enterprise AE @ Braintrust, #1 AE @ Retool

    3. Description: Stealth since 1/26

  6. Sabrina Long in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Senior PM @ Fireworks AI (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Senior PM @ Atelio by FIS, PM @ Regrow Ag, PM @ Lyft, Yale CS

    3. Description: "Working on new things"

  7. Sasan Nasirifar in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: RL Infra Lead @ Fireworks AI (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: SWE @ Meta, Visiting Researcher @ MIT, University of Toronto MS CS

    3. Description: Left Fireworks AI 12/25

    4. Contact: [email protected]

  8. Kaushal Kantawala in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: VP of Engineering @ Fireworks AI (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Head of Engineering @ TikTok, Senior Director, Generative AI @ Adobe, Director of Engineering @ Vungle, VP of Engineering @ Orange Chef, Georgia Tech MS CS

    3. Description: Left Fireworks AI in 2025

  9. Danila Kurgan in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Senior SWE @ Fireworks AI (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: SWE @ Adobe

    3. Description: Left Fireworks AI 4/26

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