About SambaNova
SambaNova Systems is an American AI and semiconductor company that designs Reconfigurable Dataflow Units (RDUs) and a full-stack AI platform for high-speed inference and model deployment. Its product portfolio — SambaCloud, SambaStack, and SambaManaged — serves developers, enterprises, governments, and sovereign AI data centers. The platform enables customers to run large open-source models such as Llama, DeepSeek, and Qwen with superior throughput and energy efficiency.
Company details
Funding
Total raised
$1.5B
Last stage
Series E
Investors
Founders
Rodrigo Liang
Former Senior VP of processor development at Oracle and Sun Microsystems. Holds MS and BS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Has led SambaNova since its founding in 2017.
LinkedInKunle Olukotun
Cadence Design Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University. Known as the 'father of the multi-core processor' and leader of the Stanford Hydra CMP research project. Founded Afara Websystems, acquired by Sun in 2002.
LinkedInChristopher Ré
Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University. MacArthur Genius Award recipient, affiliated with the Statistical Machine Learning Group, Pervasive Parallelism Lab, and Stanford AI Lab.
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