AI companion app Tolan raises $30M as CoreWeave touts 70M conversations on its inference stack
ajaymehta · x · 2026-10-20
AI companion app Tolan announced a $30M raise, with investor CoreWeave sharing scale details: over 250K people will spend time with their Tolan companion this month, after more than 70M conversations last year. Tolan runs on CoreWeave Dedicated Inference for the low latency and cost-efficient token throughput a companion app at that scale needs, with joint infrastructure optimizations ongoing. The announcement comes with a 'distracted boyfriend' meme featuring the Tolan and CoreWeave logos.
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