EdgeRunner AI has raised $5.5M seed fundraising round to build domain-specific Generative AI compatible with any chip led by Four Rivers Group with participation from Madrona Ventures and strategic angels.
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EdgeRunner AI also welcome Dan Scholnick of Four Rivers Group to board. Dan’s experience as a founder and early investor in some of the most successful open-source companies, including Weights & Biases, New Relic, Docker, and more, has already been invaluable.
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EdgeRunner AI will focus on heavily regulated industries that must understand “how the sausage is made” to use AI safely and responsibly. Notably, we’ll work in lockstep with our defense sector partners to bring the latest AI capabilities to Warfighters.
In addition, EdgeRunner AI building an AI router or switch that dynamically routes user requests to the best model for a given task. This enables users to efficiently leverage multiple models with minimal power and memory requirements.EdgeRunner AI is backed from leading VCs, including Four Rivers Group and Madrona Ventures, and we have ambitions to build a massive and enduring business.
About EdgeRunner AI
EdgeRunner AI is a VC-backed Generative AI startup founded in 2024 with talent across the world. EdgeRunner AI believe Generative AI should be run locally and privately. EdgeRunner AI building a suite of small, task-specific models that call Ultra Efficient Language Models (UELMs). Its UELMs working together create swarm intelligence and can run on any device or hardware, especially air gapped environments providing a local hyper-personalized AI experience.
