Samba Nova
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| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Semiconductors |
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Key people | Rodrigo Liang (CEO) Kunle Olukotun (CTO) Christopher Ré (co-founder) |
| Products 📟 | Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit, Dataflow-as-a-Service |
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| 🌐 Website | www |
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Samba Nova is an American semiconductor company headquartered in Palo Alto that develops accelerators for AI and machine learning.
History
Samba Nova was founded in 2017 by Rodrigo Liang, Kunle Olukotun, and Christopher Ré.
In November 2017, Samba Nova secured a seed funding round led by Celesta Capital.
In March 2018, Samba Nova secured a $56 million round A funding led by GV and Walden International[1]. A few months later, they secured an additional $7 million in funding from Celesta Capital.
In April 2019, Samba Nova closed its series B round[2] with $150 million raised from lead investor Intel Capital as well as GV, Walden International, and Celesta Capital.
In February 2020, BlackRock led a $250 million series C round of founding,[3] in which all existing investors participated. In this round, Samba Nova reached a $2.3 billion valuation, making the company a unicorn.
In April 2021, Samba Nova closed a $676 million series C round at a $5.1 billion valuation[4]. In total, Samba Nova raised $1.1 billion.
Product
Samba Nova emerged from stealth in December 2020[5] to announce their Cardinal SN10 reconfigurable dataflow unit (RDU) accelerator. Few technical details are known about the chip, but the company claims that each chip offers hundreds of teraflops and hundreds of megabytes of on-chip memory with direct access to terabytes of off-chip memories.
In addition to selling the hardware, SambaNova offers to rent out its hardware for a monthly fee, which it calls Dataflow-as-a-service. The hardware is shipped to the customer’s data center but managed and maintained by SambaNova. They offer three workload-specific subscription tiers aimed at natural language processing, high resolution computer vision and recommender systems.
References
- ↑ "The red-hot AI hardware space gets even hotter with $56M for a startup called SambaNova Systems". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2022-07-23.
- ↑ D'Onfro, Jillian. "SambaNova Systems, A Startup In The Hot AI Hardware Space, Scores $150 Million Investment From Intel And Alphabet". Forbes. Retrieved 2022-07-23.
- ↑ "Series C - SambaNova Systems - 2020-02-25 - Crunchbase Funding Round Profile". Crunchbase. Retrieved 2022-07-23.
- ↑ "SambaNova raises $676M at a $5.1B valuation to double down on cloud-based AI software for enterprises". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2022-07-23.
- ↑ "SambaNova Emerges From Stealth With Record-Breaking AI System".
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