Sail, whose software optimizes how AI models run on existing chips, emerges from stealth with $80M in seed and Series A led by Kleiner at a $450M valuation (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)

<a href="https://fortune.com/2026/06/25/exclusive-sail-apple-kleiner-perkins-gpu-token-nvdia-sequoia-80-million/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260625/i26.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260625/p26#a260625p26" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Lily Mae Lazarus / <a href="http://www.fortune.com/">Fortune</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://fortune.com/2026/06/25/exclusive-sail-apple-kleiner-perkins-gpu-token-nvdia-sequoia-80-million/">Sail, whose software optimizes how AI models run on existing chips, emerges from stealth with $80M in seed and Series A led by Kleiner at a $450M valuation</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; For months, Kleiner Perkins partner Aditya Naganath had been mulling over his investing thesis that the next wave of AI wasn't going to be a chatbot &hellip; </p>