SambaNova Systems, headquartered in United States, remains privately held in the ai hardware and inference systems (semiconductor / ai infrastructure) space. Its most recent disclosed valuation is $5.1B. Its shares do not trade on a public exchange.
2 valuations. The latest, $5.1B post-money, was set by the Series D in Apr 2021.
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Intel CapitalIIntel CorporationGeneral AtlanticBlackRockVista Equity PartnersCambium CapitalSambaNova Systems designs Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit chips, hardware accelerators built for deep-learning and generative AI workloads, and pairs them with cloud and on-premises inference platforms. Kunle Olukotun, Christopher Ré, and Rodrigo Liang, all with ties to Stanford research, co-founded the company in November 2017 in Palo Alto, building on microprocessor array research funded by DARPA.
The Argonne National Laboratory runs SambaNova hardware in its AI Testbed, and Japan's Riken Center for Computational Science deploys it alongside the Fugaku supercomputer. In 2023 SambaNova introduced its SN40L chip, and in 2026 Forbes included the company in its AI 50 list.
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