Inference, without the hardware bet

The teams building the AI products you love run inference on Parasail.

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The vision

Building for the Token Economy

In the next few years, inference will become the largest computing workload on earth. The companies that win will scale it without betting the company on hardware. That's what we're building.

  1. The problem we saw

    The way the world buys AI compute is broken. To get production inference, startups sign multi-year hardware commitments — and carry the risk when usage swings or the market moves.

  2. What we built before

    We spent our careers on the other side of that trade — building the chips, compilers, and inference platforms the industry runs on. We know what works.

  3. What we're building

    AI-native companies need a token economy, not a hardware economy: commit to output, not silicon, on a fluid fleet that flexes with you. Burst when you spike, never pay for idle.

  4. How we operate

    Whatever we run for you, we tell you exactly what it is — no silent quantization, no capacity that vanishes the moment you need it. Transparency is the foundation.

The founders

Meet the founders

Mike Henry

Ex-Chief Product Officer of Groq, acquired by NVIDIA for $20B. Former Founder & CEO of Mythic, where he raised $165M to build a disruptive AI inference compute platform. A passionate innovator who turns ideas into impact — and rebuilds and races junky muscle cars.

Co-Founder & CEOex-Groq
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Tim Harris

Founder & CEO of Swift Navigation, where he built teams and products driving hundreds of millions in sales and raised $250M in venture capital.

Co-Founder
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Investors

Backed by world class investors

Parasail is backed by leading venture firms and operators who've built and scaled the infrastructure behind today's biggest companies.

Kindred VenturesTouring CapitalSamsung NextBanyan VenturesThresholdBlack Opal VenturesBasis Set VenturesBullpen Ventures

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