capital · May 17, 2026
Fireworks AI CEO Lin Qiao Featured in 2026 Enterprise AI Infrastructure CEOs List
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The AI Insider published its list of 20 Enterprise AI Infrastructure & MLOps CEOs on May 14, 2026 including Lin Qiao as Co-Founder and CEO of Fireworks AI. Fireworks AI maintains headquarters in Redwood City, California with total funding of approximately $327 million and a $4 billion valuation. Lin Qiao raised a $250 million Series C round in October 2025 led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Index Ventures, and Evantic. Lin Qiao previously worked on the PyTorch framework at Meta before co-founding Fireworks AI to focus on low-latency high-throughput LLM serving infrastructure.
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