Top AI Compute Deals
We break down the top early-stage AI compute deals of the past year — from GPU infrastructure and inference clouds to novel accelerators and chip-design AI.
- 01Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics•California$20MSeed Extension
Tensormesh, a caching-accelerated inference optimization startup, raised $20M in an extended seed round from AMD Ventures, CoreWeave, NVentures, Valley Capital Partners, and Laude Ventures.
- 02Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics•California$19MSeed
Hosted.ai, a GPU infrastructure software company, raised $19 million in a seed round led by Creandum with participation from Repeat VC and existing investors People Ventures, Z21 Ventures, Golden Sparrow, Hersir Ventures, and Tekton
- 03Hardware • Information Technology•California$18MSeed
Lucidean, an AI interconnect startup developing coherent optical links, raised an $18 million seed round co-led by Entrada Ventures and Koch Disruptive Technologies with participation from Foothill Ventures, M Ventures, Cerberus Ventures, and Raptor Group.
- 04Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics•California$15MSeed
General Compute, an inference neocloud, raised $15 million in a seed round at a $60 million post-money valuation led by FUSE VC with participation from Carya Venture Partners and Village Global Ventures.
- 05Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics•Colorado$14MSeed
Great Sky, a brain-inspired superconducting optoelectronic computing startup, raised a $14 million seed round led by Bison Ventures with participation from Matchstick Ventures, Range Ventures, and angel investors including Mark Leslie, Adam Pritzker, and Ivan Vendrov.
- 06Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics•Ontario$8MSeed
AI analog circuit-layout software startup Astrus raised an $8.0M seed round led by Khosla Ventures; 1517 Fund, Drive Capital, Alumni Ventures, RiSC Capital, MVP Ventures, and others participated.
- 07Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics•England$6MSeed
Spectral Compute, a GPU-agnostic computing startup, raised a $6M seed equity round led by Costanoa with participation from Crucible and angel investors.
- 08Hardware • Information Technology•Zurich$3.8MPre-Seed
Mosaic SoC, an ETH Zurich spinout building low-power dedicated perception chips for spatial computing, raised $3.8M in a Pre-Seed round led by Founderful with participation from Kick Foundation.
- 09Commerce and Shopping • Hardware•Glasgow City$3.4MSeed
Quantcore, a quantum hardware spin-out, raised a £2.5 million seed round co-led by PXN Ventures, Blackfinch Ventures, and Scottish Enterprise, with Quantum Exponential and STAC participating.
- 10Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics•England$1.7MPre-Seed
Tattvam AI, a startup automating chip design, raised a $1.7 million pre-seed round led by Seedcamp with participation from EWOR, Entropy Industrial Ventures, Concept Ventures, and angel investor Stan Boland.
