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Liquid Compute, an AI-infrastructure marketplace developer, launched with $15 million in seed funding, co-led by FirstMark and Chemistry.
· ComputeLabs Research · from the September 15, 2026 edition
Liquid Compute emerged from stealth on September 15 with an announced $15 million seed financing. FirstMark and Chemistry co-led the round, with participation from K8 Capital, Night Capital, TrueBridge, Brainchild Holdings, UFO Holdings, and angel investor Dmitry Balyasny.
Founded by Ronit Jain and Aarav Patel, the company describes its business as building regulated venues for trading AI infrastructure. The announcement concerns a marketplace developer, rather than a disclosed deployment of company-owned GPUs, servers, or data-center capacity.
The funding is presented as seed capital raised, not a maximum financing facility or prospective fundraising target. The supplied excerpt does not disclose valuation, ownership dilution, financing conditions, or regulatory approvals, and does not establish that a regulated exchange is already operating.
- Liquid Compute
- FirstMark
- Chemistry

