The round was led by Menlo Ventures with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Anthropic, B Capital, Work-Bench, Wing, South Park Commons, and other notable investors. This funding, which comes less than one year after its founding, will support the expansion of Goodfire's research initiatives and the development of the company's flagship interpretability platform, Ember, in partnership with customers.

Goodfire is an AI interpretability research company and public benefit corporation based in San Francisco, dedicated to understanding and intentionally designing advanced AI systems. Backed by Menlo Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Anthropic, B Capital, Work-Bench, Wing, South Park Commons, and others, Goodfire believes advances in interpretability will unlock the next frontier of safe and powerful foundation models.