AI chip startup Etched has achieved a $10.3 billion valuation after closing a $300 million Series C funding round. The company, founded by Harvard dropouts, has developed specialized chips and memory components designed to accelerate AI model inference, aiming for lower power consumption and higher speeds. This latest funding round, which saw participation from major investors like Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz, more than doubles Etched's previous valuation from just seven months ago. AI
IMPACT This funding round for Etched signals strong investor confidence in specialized AI hardware, potentially accelerating the development and adoption of custom silicon for AI inference.
RANK_REASON Significant funding round for an AI infrastructure company with a high valuation.
- Amjad Masad
- Andreessen Horowitz
- Andrej Karpathy
- Anthropic
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- DeepSeek
- Diffusion Capital
- Dylan Field
- Etched
- Gemini
- Jane Street
- Mamba
- Nvidia
- Peter Thiel
- Qwen
- Sequoia
- SK Hynix
- TSMC
- Harvard University
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