Lumino Announces Pre-Seed Round
Summary
SAN FRANCISCO, March 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Lumino, an AI infrastructure startup, announced that it has raised a $2.8 million Pre-Seed financing round. Finally, large public cloud providers are able to pick and choose who has the ability to build AI, potentially leading to censorship or concentrating power in the few.Lumino was founded by Eshan Chordia and Yogesh Darji in July 2023 to fight all of these problems. The protocol uses economic incentives to bring compute resources together, blockchain to ensure models are being trained correctly, and a SDK for developers to get started instantly. Customers can start training their AI models in minutes with the Lumino SDK, and they see AI compute costs decrease by up to 80% as compared to traditional cloud providers.Eshan previously designed Filecoin cryptoeconomics at Protocol Labs, built the worlds most advanced AI-powered wildfire risk model at Zesty.ai, and founded Nootry, a mobile product to help people find healthy food at restaurants. He also built large-scale distributed systems at AWS on the EC2 core platform team, and founded a carpooling app to help solve traffic problems in metropolitan cities.To learn more about Lumino, visit .