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SambaNova Raises $1 Billion in Series F Round with Participation from QIA

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SambaNova Systems rolled out its SN50 processor, designed to power Agentic AI applications.

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The Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) participated in the $1 billion first close of SambaNova’s Series F funding round, backing the U.S.-based AI chip and infrastructure company at a valuation of approximately $11 billion. The round also attracted a group of leading global investors, including General Atlantic, T. Rowe Price, BlackRock, Intel Capital, Vista Equity Partners, and Seligman Ventures, highlighting continued institutional confidence in AI infrastructure companies amid growing demand for next-generation computing platforms. The latest financing comes less than five months after SambaNova closed its Series E round, raising $350 million led by Vista Equity Partners and Cambium Capital, with participation from Intel Capital. That funding was aimed at accelerating production of the company’s SN50 AI processor and expanding its SambaCloud platform. The company’s rapid progression from a $350 million raise to a $1 billion funding round underscores investors’ growing appetite for AI infrastructure providers, particularly those developing alternatives to Nvidia’s GPUs for data center workloads. Beyond designing AI processors, SambaNova offers an integrated infrastructure platform that combines hardware, servers, software, and cloud services, positioning itself as a full-stack AI infrastructure provider. The company is particularly focused on the AI inference market - the...

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The funding coincides with the rollout of SambaNova’s SN50 processor, designed specifically to power Agentic AI applications with higher performance and improved energy efficiency.

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