Pareto Inference serves open and custom models through one OpenAI-compatible API, tuned to each customer's traffic. We started as Precursor Labs, a research company working on scheduling and memory management for inference serving, and now go by one name.
Team
A small, in-person team in NYC, working across accelerators, architectures and every layer of the stack.
Jakub Janiak
CEO
M&A investment banking at Centerview Partners. Runs partnerships and compute.
Niyant Narang
CTO
Reinforcement learning at Northrop Grumman. Graduate AI at Stanford. Leads engineering.
Dylan Vu
COO
Chemical engineering research at Cornell, Harvard and L3Harris. NSF fellow; left a Berkeley PhD. Runs operations.
Alex Janiak
Chief Science Officer
Low-level systems and caching on AWS Lambda. Computer science, math and philosophy at Duke. Leads research.
Backers
A $4M seed round led by BCAP, plus NVIDIA's program for AI startups.
Led our $4M seed round. Backing crypto builders since 2013, with more than $2B under management.
Early-stage venture firm in New York backing technology companies that reshape traditional industries.
Early-stage fund investing in Stanford founders building at the intersection of AI, finance and blockchain.