# PrismML

> Caltech-founded company building compressed 1-bit and ternary Bonsai models for consumer and edge hardware.

## Why it is interesting

A genuine edge-AI efficiency financing with $22.25M in seed funding. PrismML reduces model weight storage and hardware requirements, not the autoregressive token-generation bottleneck addressed by NCM.

## Profile

- **Latest funding:** Seed — $22.25M (September 17, 2026)
- **Latest known valuation:** Not publicly disclosed
- **Total disclosed equity funding:** $22M
- **Stage:** seed
- **Status:** private
- **Industries:** N/A
- **Coverage:** full
- **Last updated:** 2026-11-13
- **Latest funding investors:** Khosla Ventures, Cerberus Ventures, California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

## Key facts

- $22.25M seed publicly reported on September 17, 2026
- Khosla Ventures, Cerberus and Caltech named as investors; lead not publicly resolved
- Exact seed legal close date disputed across financial databases; reporting date used
- Bonsai model family targets lower-weight memory needs on consumer hardware

## Funding history

- Seed · $22.25M · September 17, 2026
  Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/17/prismml-hopes-its-tiny-llm-could-change-how-we-all-use-ai/

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**Last updated:** November 13, 2026

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