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Wednesday, 19 August 2026

Etched raises $700M led by Jane Street, doubling to $21B and it still only makes one kind of chip

Tech Funding News 1 week ago 22 4 sources

Etched, a startup making inference chips for running trained AI models, raised $700 million at a $21 billion valuation in a round led by trading firm Jane Street, which also became its first production customer. The funding round valued the company at double its July valuation of $10.3 billion, with over $1 billion in customer orders already secured. Etched's competitive position strengthened after Groq was acquired by Nvidia and Cerebras went public, leaving few independent inference chip makers still operating.

Etched: AI Chip Startup Doubles Valuation in One Month

Trending Topics 1 week ago 47 4 sources

Etched, a US AI chip startup founded in 2022, raised $700 million at a $21 billion valuation, doubling its value from $10.3 billion in July. The company developed specialized Prefill and Decode chips that accelerate AI inference with lower power consumption and a proprietary memory-sharing system called Cluster-Scale Memory. The funding, led by Jane Street after the firm tested Etched's hardware, positions the startup as a competitor to Nvidia with a technology approach focused on specific inference workloads.

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