Forbes December 22, 2025
The startup behind popular Github project vLLM is out fundraising, as venture capitalists hunt for companies building tech that can make AI systems run more efficiently.
Investors are about to wager hundreds of millions on a startup with very little revenue, betting that AI is hot enough to turn an open-source codebase into a thriving business.
Spun out of UC Berkeley from the lab of Databricks co-founder Ion Stoica, vLLM has in recent weeks been pitching investors on raising money to commercialize a popular open source codebase that speeds up large language models, and squeezes better performance out of AI chips. Four sources have independently told Forbes that vLLM’s co-leader Simon Mo has been taking meetings around Silicon Valley looking...
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