Chinese AI Startup SiliconFlow Secures Pre-A Round Funding to Boost AI Infrastructure Development

On February 19, SiliconFlow, a Chinese AI startup, announced the completion of its Pre-A round funding, raising over 100 million yuan ($14 million). The round was led by China Growth Capital, with participation from Puhua Capital and existing investor Glory Ventures. Meituan, a leading Chinese tech company, joined as a strategic investor prior to this round. China Renaissance served as the exclusive financial advisor.

Founded in August 2023 by Yuan Jinhui, former founder and CEO of OneFlow and a former principal researcher at Microsoft Research Asia, SiliconFlow aims to revolutionize AI infrastructure for the era of large-scale AI models. The company focuses on bridging the gap between AI applications and hardware by optimizing algorithms, systems, and hardware integration to significantly lower the development and deployment costs of AI technologies.

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SiliconFlow’s AI Infra platform acts as a critical middleware layer, connecting AI applications with underlying computing hardware. This layer is essential for enhancing the efficiency of large model training and inference, unlocking the full potential of hardware, and reducing the barriers to developing generative AI applications. The company’s flagship product, SiliconCloud, has seen explosive growth since its launch, amassing over 3 million users and processing hundreds of billions of tokens daily.

SiliconCloud offers a comprehensive suite of services, including model training, fine-tuning, hosting, and deployment. The platform hosts over 100 mainstream models, such as DeepSeek-R1 & V3, Qwen, FLUX.1, and CosyVoice, providing developers with unparalleled flexibility and efficiency.