GL Ventures and Z Fund lead Approaching.AI’s angel round
The financing will support integrated inference workstations and faster engines for running large models.
Approaching.AI announced an angel financing of tens of millions of yuan on February 27, 2025. GL Ventures and Z Fund co-led the round, with participation from Shuimu Alumni Seed Fund and returning investor Zhenzhi Capital. An exact amount was not disclosed.
The company plans to invest in research and development, improve its integrated hardware and software workstations, and develop higher-performance inference engines. Its products aim to make large-model deployment accessible to smaller enterprise teams.
Approaching.AI works with Tsinghua’s KVCache.AI team on inference systems that coordinate CPUs, GPUs and storage. The collaboration’s KTransformers project focuses on running large models with more efficient use of available hardware.
Use of funds
Develop integrated model-inference workstations
Research and deploy higher-performance inference engines