Venice AI raises $65M
Venice AI announced a Series A round of $65M on 1 July 2026. The company operates in AI & Machine Learning and is based in United States. It was founded by Erik Voorhees, CEO & Co-founder.
Industry
AI & Machine Learning
Founder
Erik Voorhees
CEO & Co-founder, Venice AI
Outreach angles
- -Early Bitcoin advocate who previously founded crypto companies ShapeShift and SatoshiDice.
- -Built Venice as a privacy-first, uncensored AI platform that stores no user data on its own systems.
- -Already profitable at $70M+ ARR, Venice raised a $65M Series A at a $1B valuation to buy GPUs and build its own data centers.
Signals
Series AAI-NativeProfitableRevenue-GeneratingSecond-Time FounderB2C
Round details
Company: Venice AI
Domain: venice.ai
Amount: $65M
Stage: Series A
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Country: United States
Announced: 1 July 2026
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