Stefano Ermon
Founder · Inception · Mountain View, California, United States
Research Services · Seed · Founded 2024
Latest raise
$50M
Date raised
November 6, 2025
Round
Seed
About Stefano Ermon
We are leveraging diffusion technology to develop a new generation of LLMs. Our dLLMs are much faster and more efficient than traditional auto-regressive LLMs. And diffusion models are more accurate, controllable, and performant on multimodal tasks.
- Who is Stefano Ermon?
- Stefano Ermon is a founder of Inception, a research services company founded in 2024 based in Mountain View, California, United States.
- How much did Inception raise?
- Inception raised $50M in a Seed round on November 6, 2025 (361 days ago). Backed by Menlo Ventures.
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