Etched.ai is a startup building specialized hardware for LLMs. When running GPT-3 inference, our chip outperforms GPUs by 140x.
Location: United States, California, San Francisco
Employees: 1-10
Total raised: $5.4M
Founded date: 2022
Investors 1
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Primary Ve... | primary.vc |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 15.05.2023 | Seed | $5.4M | - |
Mentions in press and media 13
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| 26.08.2026 | OpenAI’s Jalapeño AI chip brings new ‘threat’ to Nvidia margins as custom silicon gains ground | OpenAI’s first custom AI chip, Jalapeño, is expected to begin deployment in the company’s computing infrastructure by the end of the year. Analysts told CNBC that it could put pressure on Nvidia in the fast-growing inference market and redu... |
| 25.08.2026 | RockRose Risk Secures $12.5M to Revolutionize Wildfire Insurance and Mitigation | RockRose Risk has raised $12.5 million in Series A funding. The company aims to revolutionize wildfire risk management. It transitions from a brokerage to a vertically integrated platform. This new model combines property assessment, robust... |
| 20.08.2026 | Rundoo Raises $30M in Series B Funding | Rundoo, a Redwood City, CA-based provider of an AI-first system of record platform for independent supply stores, raised $30M in Series B financing. The round was led by Battery Ventures with participation from existing investors Bessemer V... |
| 19.08.2026 | RockRose Risk Raises $12.5M in Series A Funding | RockRose Risk, a Napa, CA-based insurance brokerage giving property owners discounts for wildfire mitigation, raised $12.5M in Series A funding. The round was co-led by Crosslink Capital and Congruent Ventures with participation from Nuveen... |
| 19.06.2026 | Anti Fund Closes Oversubscribed $100 Million Growth Fund | Anti Fund announced the closing of its oversubscribed $100 million Anti Fund Growth I. With the close of Growth I, Anti Fund now has more than $180 million in assets under management. Anti Fund is led by Managing Partners Geoffrey Woo and J... |
| 16.01.2026 | AI lifts Alphabet to $4T valuation, but competition remains fierce AI and data: Don’t drag your feet on AI factories Around the enterprise: Big bucks for AI chip startups Cyber beat: CrowdStrike hoove... | Google parent company Alphabet hit the $4 trillion mark this week, second only to Nvidia in market capitalization, and no wonder. It kept showing off its newfound AI prowess, as Apple will use Gemini in the background for Siri, and Google r... |
| 25.07.2024 | The AI Chip Race: A New Era of Semiconductor Dominance** ** | ** The semiconductor industry is experiencing a seismic shift. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the driving force behind this transformation. Companies like SK Hynix are riding the wave, posting record profits as demand for AI chips skyrocke... |
| 24.07.2024 | Midyear Forecast: Top Trends To Watch In H2 2024 — From Chips To AI Funds | 5 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn So far, 2024 has proceeded very much like 2023 in the startup world. AI is still the dominating talk of venture capital, funding is slightly up but most seem unsure if that’s a trend or a passing mom... |
| 25.06.2024 | AI startup Etched raises $120 million to develop specialized chip | SAN FRANCISCO : Artificial-intelligence startup Etched said on Tuesday it has raised $120 million in a series-A funding round that the company plans to use to further develop its specialized chip. The San Francisco-based company aims to mak... |
| - | Etched.ai | “Transformers etched into silicon. By burning the transformer architecture into our chips, we're creating the world's most powerful servers for transformer inference.” |
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