About — Parasail
Inference, without the hardware bet.
Dear builder,
The way the world buys AI compute is broken. To get production inference, startups sign multi-year hardware commitments — and carry the risk when usage swings or the market moves.
We spent our careers on the other side of that trade — building the chips, compilers, and inference platforms the industry runs on. AI-native companies need a token economy, not a hardware economy: commit to output, not silicon, on a fluid fleet that flexes with you. Burst when you spike, never pay for idle.
Whatever we run for you, we tell you exactly what it is — no silent quantization, no capacity that vanishes the moment you need it.
In the next few years, inference will become the largest computing workload on earth. The companies that win will scale it without betting the company on hardware. That's what we're building.
— Mike Henry & Tim Harris, co-founders
Two operators, one conviction.
Mike Henry
Co-Founder & CEO · ex-Groq
Ex-Chief Product Officer of Groq, acquired by NVIDIA for $20B. Former Founder & CEO of Mythic, where he raised $165M to build a disruptive AI inference compute platform. A passionate innovator who turns ideas into impact — and rebuilds and races junky muscle cars.
Tim Harris
Co-Founder
Previously Founder & CEO of Swift Navigation, where he built teams and products driving hundreds of millions in sales and raised $250M in venture capital. Recovering lawyer and unapologetic wine fanatic.
A worldwide team of builders and researchers.
Inference engineers, systems researchers, and operators from the companies that defined modern AI infrastructure.
Mike Henry
Co-Founder & CEO · ex-Groq
Ex-Chief Product Officer of Groq (acquired by NVIDIA, $20B) and founder & CEO of Mythic, $165M raised.
Tim Harris
Co-Founder
Founder & CEO of Swift Navigation — hundreds of millions in sales, $250M raised.
Sherman Dong
ex-Stripe & Uber
Built payments and platform systems at Stripe and Uber.
Pooya Davoodi
ex-NVIDIA
Worked on GPU inference and deep-learning systems at NVIDIA.
Hongbo Shi
ex-Amazon
Built large-scale distributed infrastructure at Amazon.
Ben Sima
ex-Groq
Worked on the inference stack and compiler tooling at Groq.
Benjamin Segal
Real-time systems
Built real-time positioning infrastructure for self-driving cars at global scale.
Meghana Madhyastha
PhD, Johns Hopkins
PhD in scalable ML systems, focused on making model inference faster and cheaper.
Adam Lugowski
Founding engineer
PhD computer scientist specializing in sparse, highly parallel systems for fast computation.
Jay Stockhausen
ex-Blue Origin
Site reliability engineer from Blue Origin, focused on Kubernetes and large-scale uptime.
Backed by world-class investors.
Parasail is backed by leading venture firms and operators who've built and scaled the infrastructure behind today's biggest companies.
Inference with the reliability and flexibility to scale.
Rigid hardware commits, unpredictable capacity, or costs that don’t track what you ship? We’re here to help.