Portfolio
Etched
etched.com
- Stage
- Series A
- Backed
- 2024-Q1
- Sector
- Hardware
- Status
- Invested
At a glance
- Founded
- 2022
- Headquarters
- San Jose
- Team size
- 501-1,000 employees
- Tagline
- Frontier Inference Clusters
Per the company's LinkedIn page, 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, read 13 Oct 2026
Products
- frontier inference clusters: Co-designed chips, racks, and software built to run frontier AI models efficiently at scale.
- Low Voltage Inference (LVI): A chip architecture that runs math blocks at under half the voltage to increase FLOPs density.
- Cluster Scale Memory (CSM): A shared memory pool across the scale-up domain using a proprietary low-latency, high-bandwidth interconnect.
From etched.com, read 13 Oct 2026
Can I invest in Etched?
No. Etched is a private company; its shares are not publicly traded, and Davidovs Venture Collective does not sell, broker or arrange access to them.
Founders
Recent news
- Etched raised $300M at a $10.3B valuation, led by Sequoia Capital, years after the firm rejected its three Harvard dropout founders. · techfundingnews.com
- 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. · marketscale.com
- 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. · pulse2.com