Standard Kernel

Standard Kernel Co. builds AI infrastructure with AI, focusing on the automated generation and optimization of GPU kernels — the low-level code that executes computations on hardware accelerators like GPUs and TPUs. The company's platform generates high-performance kernels at the CUDA+PTX level, enabling full exploitation of hardware features such as tensor cores and tensor memory accelerators without relying on higher-level abstractions like Triton. Standard Kernel's benchmarks show results matching or exceeding hand-optimized libraries including cuBLAS and FlashAttention3. The team, with backgrounds from Stanford, MIT, UIUC, and industry experience at NVIDIA, raised a $20M seed round led by Jump Capital in March 2026.