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ZML Raises $20.0M Seed Round

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ZML, a startup building a high-performance AI inference stack for production, has raised $20.0M in a seed funding round. The capital infusion will support its mission to deliver peak performance across a wide range of chips and provide an exceptional developer experience.

The round drew a broad syndicate of investors, including Kindred Capital VC, LocalGlobe, Drysdale Ventures, 20VC, Kima Ventures, and AAL VC. Individual backers like AI luminary Yann LeCun, Gabriel Synnaeve, and Solomon Hykes also participated, underscoring the interest in ZML's approach to AI infrastructure.

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Gloria · Jul 8, 2026

😍 One of the most memorable first meetings of my VC career was the first time I met Steeve Morin two years ago. He is one of the most first-principles thinker I have ever met, and his clarity about where AI was heading was sharper than anyone else I had spoken to.

💡 At the time, most people believed that inference cost would trend to zero and that optimizing it was a waste of time. Steeve, however, saw that the existing stack was fundamentally unfit for a future of agentic systems, long-context reasoning, heterogeneous deployments, and local inference. Less than 36 hours after first meeting him, I got on a plane to meet him in Paris and asked to be part

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