SambaNova
Relentless Pursuit of Intelligence
AI
📍 Palo Alto, California
Founded 2017
Current Valuation
$1.5B
as of 2026-Q1
UNICORN
SambaNova Systems is an AI hardware and software company that specializes in providing full-stack AI infrastructure for enterprises. The company offers a cloud platform and APIs designed to run large open-source models with high throughput and energy-efficient performance using its custom dataflow hardware architecture and reconfigurable dataflow units (RDUs). SambaNova's integrated platform combines proprietary AI chips (SN40L, SN50), foundation models (Samba-1), and cloud services (SambaNova Cloud) to empower enterprises to control the trajectory of their data and AI future.
Company Profile
Est. Revenue
$200M (2026-Q1)
Growth
Doubling revenue year-over-year (2026), down round from $5B peak to $1.508B valuation
Last Round
Series E-1 — $307M (Feb 2026)
Founders & Key People
Rodrigo LiangKunle OlukotunChristopher Ré
Investors
Vista Equity Partners · Cambium Capital Partners · Intel Capital · SoftBank Vision Fund 2 · GV (Google Ventures) · BlackRock · Battery Ventures · T. Rowe Price · QIA (Qatar Investment Authority) · Temasek · GIC · Walden International · Redline Capital · Atlantic Bridge Ventures · WRVI Capital · Celesta Capital
Products
- SambaNova Cloud
- SN40L chip
- SN50 chip
- Samba-1
- SambaStack
- SambaManaged
- DataScale
- SambaNova Suite
- Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit (RDU)
Competitors
Groq · Cerebras · NVIDIA · AMD · OpenAI · CoreWeave · Mistral AI
AI infrastructureAI chipsMachine learningEnterprise AIDataflow architectureFoundation modelsAI inferenceAgentic AI
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2026-Q1. Refreshed quarterly.