{"id":574756,"date":"2026-07-08T08:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T08:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/574756\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T08:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T08:30:12","slug":"ai-chip-maker-sambanova-raises-1b-at-11b-valuation-5-months-after-last-mega-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/574756\/","title":{"rendered":"AI chip maker SambaNova raises $1B at $11B valuation, 5 months after last mega round"},"content":{"rendered":"

AI chip company SambaNova Systems<\/a> has raised $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation led by General Atlantic, in a first close of its Series F round, with more investors expected to join soon.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the next few weeks, a few more investors will be coming in, and the second close is likely to finish up,\u201d Rodrigo Liang, CEO and co-founder of SambaNova, told TechCrunch.<\/p>\n

The latest round comes roughly five months after the Palo Alto, California-based startup company unveiled its SN50 chip<\/a>, alongside a $350 million Series E in February<\/a>. SambaNova had also been in acquisition talks with Intel, a deal valuing it at roughly $1.6 billion, according to a December report<\/a> from Bloomberg News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Asked whether closing its Series E and F rounds meant SambaNova, founded in 2017, had settled on staying independent, Liang was noncommittal. He said the company keeps fielding interest. \u201cWe\u2019re always being approached.\u201d The door is open to such an exit in this dynamic AI market, the CEO said, but momentum and growth will most likely drive the company toward \u201cbeing public at some point.\u201d<\/p>\n

SambaNova\u2019s ties to Intel<\/a>, a backer since its Series C and a participant in this latest round, have deepened. Five months ago, the nine-year-old startup announced<\/a> a multi-year partnership with Intel to support AI inference development based on Intel\u2019s Xeon chip. The two now co-develop products and take them to market together. \u201cThat gives us a great relationship with them that lets us leverage the scale of Intel with the technology we have,\u201d Liang said.<\/p>\n

Alongside the new funding, SambaNova said it has been selected by JPMorganChase as an \u201cinference-infrastructure partner,\u201d with its SN40L and SN50 systems set to power secure, on-premises AI inference at the bank. <\/p>\n

\u201cHaving JPMorgan Chase decide they\u2019re going to use SambaNova for their inference solution is a big deal,\u201d Liang told TechCrunch. \u201cIt sends a message to the banking industry that it\u2019s time not to completely depend on cloud services. These banks want heterogeneous [infrastructure].\u201d <\/p>\n

Liang said the JPMorgan win was a signal to the broader market. Banks \u201cof the caliber of JP Morgan\u201d are now building their own private, secure infrastructure to run inference on their most sensitive models, he said, a move he expects to resonate beyond banking. Enterprises and governments are \u201cjust starting their AI journey,\u201d Liang continued, with most of the growth so far concentrated among tech\u2019s model makers and frontier labs, leaving what he called \u201ca huge amount of revenue\u201d still on the table.<\/p>\n

SambaNova launched its SN40L<\/a> in September 2023, available in the cloud, and on-premises from November 2023<\/a>. Its next-generation SN50, unveiled in February 2026, is due to begin shipping to customers in the second half of 2026, with SoftBank as its first deployment partner, Liang noted.<\/p>\n

Liang said SambaNova\u2019s edge as \u201cpremium inference\u201d running the largest models and running them fast. Today\u2019s frontier models span trillions of parameters, and he said SambaNova was built specifically to handle them at that scale. The company fits multi-trillion-parameter models onto a single rack which helps them run quickly.<\/p>\n

SambaNova sees three types of customers. The first is sovereign clouds, where governments fund local partners to build private clouds, a push Liang expects SambaNova to figure centrally in. The second is neoclouds. The third is enterprises building for their own use. In addition to JPMorgan, it also names Saudi Aramco, Intel, and other Japanese firms as customers.<\/p>\n

SambaNova will use the proceeds to scale the business and shore up its supply chain against what Liang called an incredible wave of demand. \u201cWe\u2019re using that capital to secure the supply chain,\u201d he said, describing it as essential to fulfilling orders and buying the materials the company needs to deliver over the next 12 months.<\/p>\n

Other investors participating in the round include Seligman Ventures, T. Rowe Price Associates, and Capital Group. New and existing investors also joined, including A&E Investment, Assam Ventures, Battery Ventures, Cambium Capital, BlackRock, Kabila Capital, QFO Capital, Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), Vista Equity Partners, and Volantis.<\/p>\n

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