Parasail, founded by former Groq executive Mike Henry, raised $32M Series A for its cloud compute platform serving AI inference. The company aggregates GPU capacity from 40 data centers globally and buys from liquidity markets to undercut proprietary API costs. The thesis targets the growing shift from expensive OpenAI/Anthropic APIs toward open-source models.
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Parasail raises $32M to aggregate distributed GPU capacity from 40 global data centers and undercut OpenAI/Anthropic's proprietary APIs by serving open-source model inference.
Wednesday, April 15, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: TechCrunchBY sys://pipeline
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