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title: "Etched — Davidovs Venture Collective"
description: "Etched builds AI hardware called frontier inference clusters, co-designing chips, racks, and software so frontier models can run with high throughput, low latency, and power effici"
url: "https://dvc.ai/portfolio/etched/"
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# Etched

[etched.com](https://etched.com) · DVC portfolio company

## At a glance

- **Founded:** 2022
- **Headquarters:** San Jose
- **Team size:** 501-1,000 employees
- **Tagline:** Frontier Inference Clusters

_Founded, Headquarters, Team size, Tagline: [Per the company's LinkedIn page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/etched-ai), read 13 Oct 2026_

## About Etched

Etched builds AI hardware called frontier inference clusters, co-designing chips, racks, and software so frontier models can run with high throughput, low latency, and power efficiency. The company serves AI companies, cloud providers, and hyperscalers. Etched is a team of 400+ engineers from NVIDIA, Google TPUs, Broadcom, SK Hynix, TSMC, and more.

_Source: [Summary of etched.com](https://www.etched.com/), read 13 Oct 2026_

## Products

- **frontier inference clusters**: Co-designed chips, racks, and software built to run frontier AI models efficiently at scale. — https://www.etched.com/
- **Low Voltage Inference (LVI)**: A chip architecture that runs math blocks at under half the voltage to increase FLOPs density. — https://www.etched.com/
- **Cluster Scale Memory (CSM)**: A shared memory pool across the scale-up domain using a proprietary low-latency, high-bandwidth interconnect. — https://www.etched.com/

_From etched.com, read 13 Oct 2026_

## Founders

- **Gavin Uberti**, Founder, CEO. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/guberti)
- **Robert Wachen**, Founder, President. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertwachen)
- **Chris Zhu**, Co-Founder. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/czhu1729)
- **Tina Kim**, Founder, President.
- **Mark (CTO)**, Founder, CTO.

## Recent news

- Etched raised $300M at a $10.3B valuation, led by Sequoia Capital, years after the firm rejected its three Harvard dropout founders. — Jul 2026, [techfundingnews.com](https://techfundingnews.com/etched-10-3b-series-c-sequoia-record/)
- Etched raised $300 million in a Series C round led by Sequoia, reaching a $10.3 billion valuation with $1 billion in inference chip orders already booked. — Jul 2026, [marketscale.com](https://www.marketscale.com/industries/software-and-technology/etched-closes-300m-series-c-at-103b-valuation-doubling-in-seven-months-as-inference-chip-orders-hit-1b)
- Etched raised $300 million in new financing at a $10.3 billion valuation to scale purpose-built AI inference hardware as demand exceeds available supply. — Jul 2026, [pulse2.com](https://pulse2.com/etched-raises-300-million-at-10-3-billion-valuation-to-scale-ai-inference-hardware/)

## More

- This company on dvc.ai: https://dvc.ai/portfolio/etched/
- Davidovs Venture Collective: https://dvc.ai/ (also as [Markdown](https://dvc.ai/index.md))
- The whole portfolio: https://dvc.ai/llms.txt

## Important disclosures

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