Building the Inference Economy: In conversation with Fractile, Accel and Metronome
Building the Inference Economy
Fractile has recently raised a $220m Series B led by Accel to build systems that unlock the next generation of AI scaling. Together with Accel and Metronome (a Stripe product), we are inviting a small group of founders, developers and AI engineers to explore the age of AI inference.
The explosion in demand for AI inference is fundamentally reordering global infrastructure. As AI evolves from passive chatbots to autonomous agents executing multi-step tasks, every part of the value chain is squeezing as much value as possible out of each sequential token.
Hosted by Stripe, this panel brings together the hardware, the capital, the application layer, and the financial rails to examine the major shifts powering the new machine economy.
In discussion with:
Marie-Anne Le Menn - Principal Performance Modelling Engineer, Fractile
Sam Fold - Chief Technologist in Residence, Accel
James Brown - Chief Product Officer, Metronome
Agenda
18:00 - Doors open
18:30 - Fireside with Marie-Anne, Sam and James
19:00 - Q&A
19:15 - Small bites and drinks
21:00 - End of the night, doors close
About Fractile
Fractile is building chips, systems and software to radically improve the speed and cost of running inference on the world's largest AI models. They have recently raised a $220m Series B led by Accel, Factorial, Founders fund alongside new and old backers.
They are hiring across the entire stack, from foundational AI research to foundry process innovation to chip micro-architecture.
About Accel
Accel is a global venture capital firm that is the first partner to exceptional teams everywhere, from inception through all phases of private company growth. Fractile, Atlassian, Bumble, CrowdStrike, Fiverr, Legora, Lovable, Qualtrics, Scale, Slack, Spotify, Squarespace, Synthesia, and UiPath are among the companies Accel has backed over the past 40+ years.
Accel helps ambitious entrepreneurs build iconic global businesses. For more, visit www.accel.com.
About Metronome (a Stripe product)
Metronome is the usage-based billing platform that helps you launch products faster. Acquired by Stripe in 2025, they help to easily model your pricing and iterate as you scale. Stripe builds programmable financial services. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities.
Headquartered in San Francisco and Dublin, the company aims to increase the GDP of the internet.