VESSL AI

Artificial Intelligence · MLOps
$15Mtotal raised · 3 rounds on record
13open roles
$12Mlatest round · Venture round · Oct 2024 · 2 yr ago
1backers · Springcamp

Overview

VESSL AI is an artificial intelligence infrastructure and MLOps platform specializing in cloud compute orchestration and GPU cluster management. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States, the company unifies fragmented GPU resources across multi-cloud environments to streamline model training, fine-tuning, and deployment. Through automated workflow management and scalable cluster access, the enterprise empowers AI research labs, startups, and commercial clients to reduce infrastructure friction and accelerate machine learning development.

Funding and backers

Total raised
$15M
3 rounds on record
Latest round
$12M
Venture round · Oct 2024 · 2 yr ago
Team
4
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025
Hiring now
24
+7 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
Springcamp
The money's age
Long since its last round
25 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
27/100
hiring for its size, rising traction
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Oct 7, 2024 Raised a round Venture round $12M · TechCrunch Aug 19, 2021 Raised a round Venture round $222 · SEC Form D Jun 29, 2020 Raised a round Venture round $3M · SEC Form D 2020 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.08%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
GitHub stars
31 public repositories · +1%
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Oct 2024 $12M — TechCrunch
Venture round Aug 2021 $222 — SEC Form D
Venture round Jun 2020 $3M — SEC Form D
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity VESSL AI, Inc. its site
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Daniel MontoyaExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Daniel MurphyExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Walter ApodacaExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Dami YiExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Jaeman AnExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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Jobs

In office · Full-Time · 3+ years exp · Seoul
SLURM
Git
Kubernetes
Linux
VPN
VLAN
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In office · Full-Time · 3+ years exp · Seoul
InfiniBand
DevOps
Git
Kubernetes
HPC
VPN
VLAN
Apply
In office · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Seoul
Git
Apply
≈ $90k – $236k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · 4+ years exp · Seoul
vLLM
Fine-tuning
Reinforcement Learning
Quantization
AI Agents
SGLang
LLM
CUDA
Triton
PPO
GRPO
Post-training
Speculative Decoding
DevOps
SLURM
Git
Kubernetes
Robotics
Reinforcement Learning
Apply
Hybrid · Full-Time · 1+ year exp · Seoul
Python
PowerShell
Git
Kubernetes
Windows
TCP/IP
DNS
DHCP
VPN
Wi-Fi
Cybersecurity
Okta
Microsoft Entra ID
Management
Linear
Jira
Apply
≈ $56k – $153k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · Seoul
Python
vLLM
AI Agents
SGLang
TensorRT
TensorRT-LLM
InfiniBand
DevOps
Git
Linux
Apply
≈ $94k – $218k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Seoul
Python
vLLM
AI Agents
SGLang
TensorRT
TensorRT-LLM
InfiniBand
DevOps
Git
HPC
Linux
Apply
≈ $73k – $209k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · Seoul
SQL
SLURM
Git
Kubernetes
Incident Management
SLI/SLO/SLA
HPC
Cybersecurity
SOC 2
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≈ $66k – $183k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Seoul
Python
TPU
InfiniBand
NVLink
DevOps
SLURM
Git
Docker
Kubernetes
Chaos Engineering
eBPF
SLI/SLO/SLA
Linux
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Hybrid · Full-Time · 2+ years exp · Seoul
Python
TPU
InfiniBand
DevOps
Terraform
Ansible
OpenTelemetry
Prometheus
SLURM
Git
Docker
Kubernetes
Grafana
SLI/SLO/SLA
Linux
Apply
Hybrid · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Seoul
Python
Go
vLLM
Quantization
SGLang
LLM
KV Cache
DevOps
Git
Kubernetes
KVM
KubeVirt
Linux
Apply
Hybrid · Full-Time · Seoul
Python
Go
vLLM
SGLang
LLM
DevOps
Git
Docker
Kubernetes
KVM
KubeVirt
Linux
Apply

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$220k
Typical range
$210k – $250k
Open positions
3
3 Jobs
Staff 33.3%
Architect 66.7%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Staff 1 $210k $210k
Architect 2 $235k $220k – $250k
Highest paying role Head of Sales $250k
Normalized to USD per year

Visa sponsorship

0
H-1B filings in 12 months
4
Open roles in United States
In the register as Vessl AI Inc., San Jose, CA
Other sponsors in the same field
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US Department of Labor · latest filing Jun 24, 2025 · Visa details by country

Growth

Hiring Momentum
23/100
Hiring freeze
Open positions
24
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
69 days
faster than 18% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics 0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
DevOps
13% ▼
Solutions
13% ▼
AI/ML
9% ▲
Backend
9% ▼
Product
9% ▲
Finance
9% ▲

Financials

Total raised
$15M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
3
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2024 $12M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2021 $222 Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2020 $3M Details

People

Daniel Montoya
Executive Officer, Director
Daniel Murphy
Executive Officer
Walter Apodaca
Executive Officer, Director
Dami Yi
Executive Officer, Director
Jaeman An
Executive Officer, Director
Joshua Pack
Director
Thomas Kelley
Director
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at VESSL AI over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
58
Postings analysed
23
Stack modernity
73/100AI adopter
Languages
Python35%
Go9%
SQL9%
PowerShell4%
Frameworks & libraries
SGLang22%
TensorRT-LLM9%
CUDA4%
OpenTelemetry4%
Cloud & platforms
Kubernetes48%
Linux30%
vLLM22%
GitHub4%
AI & ML
LLM13%
Claude13%
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Full VESSL AI tech stack 58 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

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Shared investors1
SpringcampVia a fund
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News

News YahooFinance 2 years ago
VESSL AI secures $12M for its MLOps platform that aims to cut GPU costs by up to 80%
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News TechCrunch 2 years ago
VESSL AI secures $12M for its MLOps platform that aims to cut GPU costs by up to 80%
South Korean MLOps platform VESSL AI is trying to carve out a niche for itself by focusing on optimizing for GPU expenses using hybrid infrastructure.
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
2
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco United States
HQ
4 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $227k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, Marketing, Operations
seen since Aug 2026 job postings
Seoul South Korea
Engineering / R&D
20 open roles 20 posted in 90 days 35% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for DevOps, Solutions, AI/ML
seen since Aug 2026 job postings