Sail Research

This page may contain stale information. Last updated: 2026-06-28

Overview

Sail Research is a San Francisco infrastructure startup purpose-built for long-horizon agentic-ai agents. Founded by Neil Movva (ex-Apple, NVIDIA, Together AI) and Samir Menon (ex-Apple), the platform combines throughput-optimized inference and stateful sandbox environments called Sailboxes.

Recent Developments

• 2026-06-25: Emerged from stealth with $80MSeed+SeriesAat$450M valuation; Kleiner Perkins (Series A), sequoia-capital (Seed) (2026-06-25-sail-research-80m-stealth)
• 2026-04: Launched Sailboxes stateful sandboxes (2026-06-25-sail-research-cryptobriefing)
• 2026-03: Inference service launched; processing trillions of tokens weekly

"Up to 10x lower cost per token" is a vendor claim — benchmark methodology varies by workload.

Related

• agentic-ai
• inference-chip
• llm-infrastructure
• persistent-agents
• kleiner-perkins
• sequoia-capital
• sail-research-80m-stealth

Sources

• 2026-06-25-sail-research-prnewswire-official
• 2026-06-25-sail-research-80m-stealth