SambaNova Systems

Hardware · Palo Alto, US

Full-stack AI systems and inference chips (SN50), an alternative to GPUs.

Founders

Rodrigo Liang (United States · ♂) — A semiconductor leader who built enterprise processors at Sun and Oracle, he co-founded SambaNova in 2017 as CEO to create AI-specialized chips and systems that rival GPUs.
Kunle Olukotun (United States · ♂) — The Stanford pioneer of multi-core processor design, he co-founded SambaNova in 2017 to bring reconfigurable dataflow architecture to AI as CTO.
Christopher Re (United States · ♂) — A Stanford machine-learning professor and MacArthur Fellow, he co-founded SambaNova in 2017 to co-design AI software and hardware.
Sunil Chandra
Haocheng (David) Dong

Shares the most investors with (number = shared investors):

Date	Round	Amount
Feb 2026	Series D Plus SambaNova raised over $350 million in a Series E led by Vista Equity Partners and Cambium Capital, launching the SN50 inference chip and a partnership with Intel.	$350M
Apr 2021	Series D Plus SambaNova Systems raised a US$676M Series D led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, valuing the AI-chip company at over US$5B.	$676M

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