en.Wedoany.com Reported - SambaNova Systems has completed the initial $1 billion tranche of its Series F funding round, achieving a post-money valuation of $11 billion. The new capital will primarily be used to expand production capacity and global deployment of its dedicated AI inference infrastructure, covering chips, systems, software, and full-stack infrastructure. The round was led by General Atlantic, with significant investments from Seligman Ventures, T. Rowe Price Associates, and Capital Group.
Prior to this funding, SambaNova had announced over $350 million in funding earlier in 2026, launched the SN50 processor, and established a strategic partnership with Intel around heterogeneous AI inference infrastructure. SambaNova stated that it will use the Series F proceeds to increase production capacity, accelerate product development, expand customer programs, and scale deployments across enterprises, Neoclouds, sovereign AI projects, and service providers.
SambaNova also announced that JPMorganChase has selected it as an AI inference infrastructure partner and plans to deploy SN40 and SN50 systems for secure on-premises AI inference. This deployment brings a significant enterprise reference customer to SambaNova's Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit (RDU) architecture, as financial institutions evaluate different options between dedicated inference accelerators and GPU-based infrastructure.
In addition to the lead investor, other participants in this round include A&E Investment, Assam Ventures, Battery Ventures, funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, Cambium Capital, Intel Capital, Kabila Capital, QFO Capital, Qatar Investment Authority, Vista Equity Partners, and Volantis.
SambaNova co-founder and CEO Rodrigo Liang stated that the company's $11 billion valuation highlights the central role of fast inference in the enterprise AI stack. The initial $1 billion tranche will provide SambaNova with substantial capital to expand its RDU architecture. Currently, AI infrastructure investment is increasingly shifting toward production inference, per-token cost, energy efficiency, and workload-specific accelerators. JPMorganChase's deployment also strengthens SambaNova's position in the enterprise market, while Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, Google, AWS, Microsoft, and numerous dedicated accelerator vendors are expanding competitive inference platforms and heterogeneous computing architectures.
