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Permissionless Labs, Inc.

Irvine, CA · Founded 2021 · ~11-50 employees
LAST FUNDING
$9.2M
Series A

Permissionless Labs is an AI lab providing high-throughput inference, durable model storage, and custom fine-tuning — frontier infrastructure you can access without gatekeepers or lock-in.

Funding history

RoundAmount
Series A$9.2M
SEC Form D filed
May 23, 2024

About Permissionless Labs, Inc.

How much funding has Permissionless Labs, Inc. raised?

Permissionless Labs, Inc. has raised $9.2M in total funding. The most recent round was Series A.

Where is Permissionless Labs, Inc. headquartered?

Permissionless Labs, Inc. is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

What does Permissionless Labs, Inc. do?

Permissionless Labs is an AI lab providing high-throughput inference, durable model storage, and custom fine-tuning — frontier infrastructure you can access without gatekeepers or lock-in.

What's Permissionless Labs, Inc.'s solution?

Permissionless Labs offers three composable AI infrastructure services -- inference, storage, and fine-tuning -- that chain together into an end-to-end pipeline from raw dataset to a fine-tuned model in production.

What makes Permissionless Labs, Inc. different?

Everything is open by default: it publishes open model weights, training recipes, and tooling, and its fine-tuning service lets customers keep the resulting weights rather than lock them in.

What makes Permissionless Labs, Inc. notable?

Founded by David Rhodus; the Irvine-based crypto R&D company raised a $10M Series A led by Multicoin Capital with backing from Solana Ventures.

Industry
B2B
Founded
2021
HQ
Irvine, CA
Employees
~11-50
Raised
$9.2M
Stage
Series A
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