Pipeshift (YC S24)

Pipeshift (YC S24) is a cloud platform for finetuning and inferencing open-source LLMs and is positioned as the modern deployment stack for open-source GenAI. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in the United States, Pipeshift aims to assist teams in reaching production with their LLMs at a faster pace. The company's main focus is to enable organizations making over 1000 calls/day on frontier LLMs to leverage their data and logs, thereby replacing GPT/Claude with specialized LLMs that offer increased accuracy, decreased latencies, and model ownership. In its latest funding round, Pipeshift secured a $2.50M Seed Round investment on 23 January 2025. The investors in this round included prominent names such as Y Combinator, MyAsia VC, gradCapital, Good News Ventures, Astir Ventures, Umur Cubukcu, SenseAI Ventures, Nivesha Ventures, Kulveer Taggar, and Krishna Mehra. Positioned at the intersection of AI, Cloud Infrastructure, and Information Technology, Pipeshift presents an intriguing prospect for venture capital considerations.