Market landscapes / Model Serving & Compute / Inference Optimization & Compilers
Mako
GPU inference optimisation using AI agents. Makora automatically optimises the full inference stack to deliver frontier models at higher throughput than competing inference providers.
Inference Optimization & Compilersmakora.com ↗
Updated 23 October 2026
Hiring now
From Mako's own jobs board, checked every week.
Where the roles are
Against its sector
13 of the 21 active companies in Inference Optimization & Compilers are advertising roles. Multiverse Computing has the most, with 9.
Funding
Mako announced an $8.5 million seed round in August 2025, led by M13.
Source: Mako's announcement
Who Mako competes with
The other active companies we file under Inference Optimization & Compilers, sorted by how much they are hiring.
Where this fits
Making models cheaper and faster to run: compilers, quantisation, kernels and serving optimisation. Deep technical work done by small teams.
We track hiring and team changes across all 183 companies in Model Serving & Compute.
Our talent report for this sector shows how Mako's team compares with its competitors.
What is in it:
- Every company's team size, side by side, grouped by sub-sector
- Who grew their team over the last year, and by how much
- Who is losing people: attrition for each company, against the sector average
- Who is hiring right now, and how many open roles each has
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