# Together AI raises $800M Series C from Aramco Ventures and Nvidia

> Together AI has raised an $800 million Series C led by Aramco Ventures, with Nvidia, Salesforce Ventures, General Catalyst, and Vista Equity joining the round. The company builds infrastructure for serving open AI models, letting other businesses run inference at scale without depending on the closed APIs of the biggest labs. The investor mix is telling. Backing from a major energy player alongside a leading chipmaker and enterprise software investors signals how strategically important efficient model serving has become, and how many different industries now want a stake in the open-model supply chain. As companies look for cheaper, more controllable alternatives to proprietary frontier systems, the firms that make open models fast and affordable to run are drawing serious capital. This round places Together AI among the better-funded players competing to be the default home for open-source inference.

_Section: [AI Funding Tracker](https://www.wortins.com/funding) · Source: Crunchbase · Published Thursday, August 13, 2026_

## Wortins' read

Together AI has raised an $800 million Series C led by Aramco Ventures, with Nvidia, Salesforce Ventures, General Catalyst, and Vista Equity joining the round. The company builds infrastructure for serving open AI models, letting other businesses run inference at scale without depending on the closed APIs of the biggest labs. The investor mix is telling. Backing from a major energy player alongside a leading chipmaker and enterprise software investors signals how strategically important efficient model serving has become, and how many different industries now want a stake in the open-model supply chain. As companies look for cheaper, more controllable alternatives to proprietary frontier systems, the firms that make open models fast and affordable to run are drawing serious capital. This round places Together AI among the better-funded players competing to be the default home for open-source inference.

## Source

[Read the full story at Crunchbase](https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/global-startup-exits-ipo-ma-soar-ai-q2-h1-2026/)

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