| Date | Title | Description |
| 24.08.2026 | AI's Global Reshaping: Innovation, Regulation, and Strategic Power Plays | AI rapidly reshapes technology and society. It integrates into physical products: camera-equipped AirPods, global robotaxi fleets. Regulatory pressures mount on platforms regarding youth harm and AI safety. Tech giants aggressively acquire ... |
| 22.08.2026 | Etched Soars to $21B, Challenges Nvidia in AI Chip Race | Etched, an AI chip startup, secured $700M funding. This catapults its valuation to $21B, a dramatic doubling in under a month. Etched directly challenges Nvidia. It specializes in AI inference solutions. These systems process trained AI mod... |
| 20.08.2026 | Производитель ИИ-чипов Fractile ведет переговоры об оценке в $6,5 млрд после сделки с Anthropic | Британский стартап Fractile, разрабатывающий чипы для задач искусственного интеллекта и уже заключивший сделку с Anthropic PBC, ведет переговоры о раунде финансирования с оценкой в $6,5 млрд — более чем в шесть раз выше уровня, зафиксирован... |
| 20.08.2026 | Американский AI стартап Etched удвоил оценку до $21 млрд менее чем за месяц | Американский AI-стартап Etched, разрабатывающий специализированные чипы для работы искусственного интеллекта, привлек $700 млн, увеличив свою оценку более чем вдвое — до $21 млрд менее чем за месяц. Инвесторы рассчитывают на дальнейший рост... |
| 20.08.2026 | UK AI startup Callosum raises $100M to rethink how AI uses models and chips, backed by Sovereign AI Fund | Callosum, a London AI startup founded last year, has raised $100 million in seed funding to tackle one of the industry’s increasingly expensive problems: deciding which AI model should run on which chip.
The company announced Thursday it ha... |
| 19.08.2026 | Etched Ships First Rack to Jane Street, Valuation Doubles to $21B in One Month | By Clayton Lewis
Published: Aug 19 2026, 3:52 PM EDT
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| 19.08.2026 | Etched: AI Chip Startup Doubles Valuation in One Month | Set Trending Topics as a preferred source on Google.
According to TechCrunch, US-based AI chip startup Etched has raised $700 million in a new funding round at a valuation of $21 billion. The valuation jump is enormous — the young company w... |
| 19.08.2026 | Etched Raises $700 Million At $21 Billion Valuation As Customer Contracts Top $1 Billion And Jane Street Deploys First Rack | Etched has raised $700 million in new funding at a $21 billion valuation as the AI semiconductor company moves from chip development into customer deployments, with Jane Street becoming its first customer and more than $1 billion of contrac... |
| 19.08.2026 | Etched Raises $700M in Funding | Etched, a San Jose, CA-based provider of inference clusters solutions, raised $700M in financing, at $21 Billion valuation.
The round was led by Jane Street with participation from Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Tiger Global... |
| 19.08.2026 | Конкурирующий с Nvidia стартап Etched удвоил оценку до $21 млрд менее чем за месяц | Разработчик специализированных чипов для инференса ИИ-моделей Etched привлек $700 млн, доведя оценку компании до $21 млрд. Раунд возглавил давний инвестор компании — торговая фирма Jane Street, к которой присоединились Kleiner Perkins, Sequ... |
| 18.08.2026 | Top Tech News Today, August 18, 2026: Apple, Baidu, ByteDance, Google, Meta, OpenAI, Xiaomi & More | It’s Tuesday, August 18, 2026, and AI is breaking out of the chatbot box.
In the last 24 hours, the technology race pushed deeper into the physical world: Apple’s rumored camera-equipped AirPods point to AI that can see what you see, Pony.a... |
| 18.08.2026 | $21 billion AI chip startup Etched takes on Nvidia, poaches its engineers and lands Jane Street | Etched is starting to look like something Nvidia has rarely faced during the AI boom: a young chip startup with billions in backing, veteran Nvidia engineers on its payroll, more than $1 billion in orders, and a major Wall Street firm willi... |
| 18.08.2026 | Venture Capital & Startup Funding Roundup, August 18, 2026: Andreessen Horowitz, Jane Street, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, Tiger Global & More | Artificial intelligence has dominated the news for months. But today’s venture capital is moving deeper into the technology stack. Rather than chasing another wave of generic AI software, investors are backing the infrastructure, energy eff... |
| 10.08.2026 | Funding and Acquisitions Roundup: Forward Financing Nabs $525M, Unicorns Formed | While Forward Financing saw the biggest number, several others reached unicorn status thanks to fresh capital. Forward Financing nabs $525M in new financing
The package includes a $350 million variable funding note (VFN) facility alongside ... |
| 27.07.2026 | Etched Scores $300 Million Funding |
SAN JOSE, CA, Etched, a startup building inference clusters, has raised $300M at a $10.3B valuation led by Sequoia Capital.
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| 26.07.2026 | Etched Reaches $10.3B Valuation, Redefining AI Inference Hardware | Etched Inc. recently raised $300M in Series C funding, boosting its valuation to $10.3B. This AI chip startup specializes in purpose-built inference hardware, directly challenging general-purpose GPUs. Its core innovations, Low Voltage Infe... |
| 24.07.2026 | Augustus Reaches Unicorn Status with $180 Million Series B Funding | Augustus landed $180 million in Series B funding. This investment pushes its valuation to $1 billion, making it a fintech unicorn. The firm builds a federally regulated clearing bank. It offers global financial institutions direct US dollar... |
| 23.07.2026 | Venture capital & startup funding roundup, July 23, 2026: Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures, ICONIQ, Sequoia & more | The money moved in one direction today: toward AI systems that are expensive to build, hard to copy, and increasingly tied to real-world deployment rather than software demos. In the trailing 12-hour window, the 10 most important disclosed ... |
| 23.07.2026 | Etched, AI chip startup founded by college dropouts, raises $300M at $10.3B valuation to take on Nvidia | For years, Nvidia has held an iron grip on the AI chip market, turning its GPUs into the default hardware for training and running large language models. That dominance has created a wave of startups trying to carve out a place in the marke... |
| 23.07.2026 | DVC: Interview With Managing Partners Marina Davidova And Nick Davidov About The AI-First Venture Capital Firm | DVC is a Bay Area-based venture capital firm backing early-stage AI startups. In just four years, seven companies in its portfolio have reached unicorn status. DVC was an early backer of Perplexity, Etched, Thinking Machines Lab, Rhoda AI, ... |
| 23.07.2026 | AI chip startup Etched more than doubles valuation to $10.3B in new $300M round | Etched Inc., a startup with a chip optimized for artificial intelligence inference, today announced that it has raised $300 million in funding.
The Series C round was led by Sequoia. SK Hynix Inc., the world’s largest supplier of memory for... |
| 23.07.2026 | Etched Raises $300 Million At $10.3 Billion Valuation To Scale AI Inference Hardware | Etched has raised $300 million in new financing at a $10.3 billion valuation to increase production and customer deployments of its purpose-built artificial intelligence inference systems. The financing was led by Sequoia Capital, with part... |
| 22.07.2026 | Augustus Raises $180 Million Series B At $1 Billion Valuation To Expand Global Dollar Banking Platform | Augustus has raised $180 million in a Series B financing round at a $1 billion valuation to expand its banking infrastructure for international financial institutions. The round was led by Tiger Global and brought the company’s total fundin... |
| 16.07.2026 | PixVerse Secures $439M, Propels Real-Time AI Worlds Beyond Static Video | AI video pioneer PixVerse just raised $439M. Its valuation now tops $2 billion. The Singapore-based company is redefining AI video. It moves beyond static clips. PixVerse builds real-time, interactive virtual worlds. Its R1 world model powe... |
| 16.07.2026 | A Red Bull engineer got bored with Formula One. His robotics startup just raised $55 million. | A former Formula One engineer left the world's fastest race cars to tackle a much bigger engineering challenge: teaching robots to work in factories.
Now, his Munich-based startup, microagi, has raised $55 million in the largest seed round ... |
| 14.07.2026 | ИИ-генератор видео PixVerse привлек $439 млн и получил оценку более $2 млрд | Сингапурский разработчик генеративного видео PixVerse привлек продление раунда серии C на $439 млн в рамках дополнительного раунда серии C, сообщила компания. После сделки оценка стартапа превысила $2 млрд. Полученные средства PixVerse напр... |
| 08.07.2026 | Etched Unleashes New Era for AI Inference with $800M Funding, $1B Contracts | AI hardware innovator Etched emerged from stealth. It announced $800 million in funding. The company secured over $1 billion in customer contracts. Its valuation stands at $5 billion. Etched specializes in high-performance AI inference chip... |
| 03.07.2026 | OpenAI offers feds a stake, Anthropic gets out of AI model jail and Meta wants to be a neocloud | OpenAI reportedly has floated giving the U.S. government a 5% stake in the company, perhaps the start of a series of such stakes in other AI companies as well.
This no doubt has traditional anti-industrial-policy Republicans, all apparently... |
| 01.07.2026 | Etched Comes Out Of Stealth With $800 Million Raised And $1 Billion In Customer Contracts | Etched announced that it has come out of stealth after building its first racks following a successful A0 tapeout. The company also disclosed that it has raised $800 million and secured more than $1 billion in customer contracts.
Etched sai... |
| 01.07.2026 | Конкурент Nvidia Etched привлек $1 млрд контрактов и достиг оценки в $5 млрд | Американский разработчик чипов для инференса ИИ-моделей Etched сообщил о заключении контрактов на $1 млрд после того, как тайваньский контрактный производитель TSMC в начале года завершила создание первого чипа компании. Оценка стартапа дос... |
| 01.07.2026 | Etched Emerges From Stealth With $800M Raised | Etched, a San Jose, CA-based company building frontier inference clusters, came out of stealth today, announcing a total of $800M raised across multiple unannounced financing rounds.
The latest round was a $500m financing at a $5 billion po... |
| 30.06.2026 | Transformer Chip Startup Etched Exits Stealth: $800M Raised, $1B in Contracts | By Richard L. Wells
Published: Jun 30 2026, 8:45 PM EDT
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| 30.06.2026 | Inference chip startup Etched launches with $800M in funding | Etched Inc., a developer of artificial intelligence inference chips, launched today with $800 million in funding.
The startup raised the capital over multiple rounds. The most recent investment, which closed in December, valued Etched at $5... |
| 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... |
| 05.05.2026 | Deviation Capital Launches With $2 Billion In AUM Following Spinout From Two Sigma | Deviation Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm, has launched as a newly independent business following the completed spinout of the Two Sigma Ventures operation from quantitative investment and trading firm Two Sigma.
As part of the... |
| 02.03.2026 | MatX обещает ускоритель в 10 раз быстрее Nvidia. Инвесторы уже вложили $500 млн | Стартап MatX, основанный бывшими инженерами Google TPU, привлек $500 млн в раунде Series B. Раунд возглавили торговая фирма Jane Street и фонд Situational Awareness, созданный Леопольдом Ашенбреннером — бывшим исследователем OpenAI, автором... |
| 04.11.2024 | Недельный геймдев: #198 — 3 ноября, 2024 | Из новостей: Sony закрывает Firewalk Studios — создателей Concord, в российских колледжах начнут готовить разработчиков видеоигр, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 бьёт рекорды, Unity требует от авторов Rust минимум 500 тысяч долларов в год.
Из инт... |
| 21.08.2024 | The Cloud Revolution: How Wasabi is Changing Surveillance Storage in APAC | In the bustling world of technology, change is the only constant. The cloud is the new frontier, and Wasabi is leading the charge in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. Their approach to surveillance cloud storage is a breath of fresh air in an... |
| 17.08.2024 | The economics of GPUs: How to train your AI model without going broke | Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More
Many companies have high hopes for AI to revolutionize their business, but those hopes can be quickly crushed by ... |
| 03.07.2024 | Renewable Energy Rising: Xurya's $55 Million Boost | In a significant development for the renewable energy sector, PT Xurya Daya Indonesia (Xurya) has secured a substantial $55 million investment from the Norwegian Climate Investment Fund. This latest funding injection marks a pivotal moment ... |
| 01.07.2024 | Deals in brief: Jirnexu to acquire MoneyHero’s Malaysian arm, Xurya receives additional USD 55 million, ten China and India deals, and more | NewsDeals in brief: Hubble secures debt facility from AlteriQ Global, SoftBank invests in Perplexity AI, Etched raises funds to further develop specialized AI chip, and more
Written by KrASIA Writers Hubble, Perplexity AI, Etched, and more ... |
| 28.06.2024 | Deals in brief: Hubble secures debt facility from AlteriQ Global, SoftBank invests in Perplexity AI, Etched raises funds to further develop specialized AI chip, and more | NewsDeals in brief: Samsara Eco bags USD 65 million, Mekari acquires Jojonomic, Hozon Auto files for Hong Kong IPO, and more
Written by KrASIA Writers Samsara Eco, Mekari, Hozon Auto, and more led yesterday’s headlines: Samsara Eco, a clima... |
| 27.06.2024 | Etched Raises $120 Million To Develop Fast AI Chip | - |
| 25.06.2024 | AI startup Etched raises $120 million to develop specialized chip | - |
| 25.06.2024 | Etched, an AI chip startup founded by college dropouts, raises $120 million in funding to take on Nvidia | Nvidia has long been the uncontested leader in the AI GPU market, but a new contender has just emerged. Etched, a two-year-old startup founded by Harvard dropouts, is stepping into the ring to challenge the chipmaking giant’s dominance with... |
| 25.06.2024 | Etched Raises $120M in Funding | Etched, the Cupertino, CA-based creator of Sohu, a transformer-specialized AI chip, raised $120M in funding.
The round was led by Primary Venture Partners and Positive Sum Ventures, with participation from Hummingbird, Fundomo, Fontinalis, ... |
| - | Harvard dropouts raise $120 million to take on Nvidia’s AI chips | A team founded by college dropouts has raised $120 million from investors led by Primary Venture Partners to build a new AI chip to take on Nvidia.
Etched CEO Gavin Uberti said the startup is betting that as AI develops, most of the technol... |
