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SambaNova

Relentless Pursuit of Intelligence
AI 📍 Palo Alto, California Founded 2017
Current Valuation
$11B
as of 2026-Q3
DECACORN

IPO Outlookprivate

Is SambaNova going public?
No. SambaNova is private and has not filed to go public. There is no S-1 on file.
What is SambaNova's valuation in 2026?
SambaNova is valued at $11B as of 2026-Q3, set by its Series F (first close) ($1.0B, Jul 2026). That is the last confirmed mark, not a live price — private shares do not trade continuously.
Has SambaNova filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for SambaNova.
Who are SambaNova's investors?
SambaNova's investors include Vista Equity Partners, Cambium Capital Partners, Intel Capital, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, GV (Google Ventures), BlackRock and 10 more.
Answers are derived from the roster record shown on this page — filing status, last round and confirmed marks. Where the record is silent, the answer says so rather than guessing.
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

CEO
Rodrigo Liang
Founded
2017
HQ
Palo Alto, California
Employees
395-450
Total Raised
$2.4B
Est. Revenue
$200M (2026-Q1)
Growth
Doubling revenue year-over-year (2026), down round from $5B peak to $1.508B valuation
Last Round
Series F (first close) — $1.0B (Jul 2026) · Lead: General Atlantic
IPO Status
Private

Fundraising Status

Series F (first close) · $1.0B · 1 mo ago
PrivateTotal raised $2.4B1 disclosed rounds

Series F (first close) Impact

Round Size
$1.0B
Primary financing announced
Post-Money Valuation
$11B
Company-announced mark
Round / Post-Money
9.1%
New capital ÷ post-money
Disclosed Funding
$2.4B
Cumulative disclosed rounds
Step-up compares disclosed post-money valuations. Round / post-money is a financing-size ratio, not an ownership or dilution estimate.

Funding History

RoundAmountDateLead InvestorPost-Money
Series F (first close)$1.0BJul 2026General Atlantic$11B

Vertical Intelligence — AI / ML

No verified Hugging Face organization found for SambaNova — no attributable open-model footprint. Closed-weights labs are common; this is a distribution signal, not a capability judgment.
Checked huggingface.co as of 2026-08-19. Re-checked weekly.

Talent Signal

Hiring trend
First snapshot
trend accrues with monthly sweeps
Open roles
9
via careers page
Product-build share
33%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
steady
balanced build + GTM — 33% builders vs 67% go-to-market/G&A — scaling both sides.
Actively hiring with no tracked executive churn.
Open roles by month
Open roles by month9Aug '26
Open roles by function
Open roles by functionLegal & Policy4Engineering3Marketing2
product-building   go-to-market / G&A
Developer Showcase[Developer Showcase](https://sambanova.ai/developer/showcase)[Early Access Program](https://sambanova.ai/developer/early-access-program)Pay Transparency PolicyEEO/AA PolicyLegal Agreements
Counted from SambaNova's live job board as of 2026-08-17; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.

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 AIRecently Funded
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2026-Q3. Refreshed quarterly.