SuperNIC startup Enfabrica raises US$115 million in Series C
Networking chip company Enfabrica Corp. (Mountain View, Calif.) has raised US$115 million as part of an oversubscribed Series C round of funding led by Spark Capital.
New investors supporting Enfabrica include: Arm, Cisco Investments, Maverick Silicon, Samsung Catalyst Fund and VentureTech Alliance. Existing investors in Enfabrica include Nvidia Corp. although Nvidia is not said to have taken part in the funding round.
Supporting capital for the round was provided by existing investors including Atreides Management, Alumni Ventures, IAG Capital, Liberty Global Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures, and Valor Equity Partners.
Enfabrica also announced that its 3.2Tbps accelerated compute fabric (ACF) SuperNIC chip would be available from 1Q25.
“We were the first to draw up the concept of a high-bandwidth network interface controller fabric optimized for accelerated computing clusters,” said Rochan Sankar, CEO of Enfabrica, in a statement. “And we are grateful to the incredible syndicate of investors who are supporting our journey.”
The company said the latest funding would be used to move to volume production of the ACF SuperNIC chips as well as expand R&D and product development.
The ACF delivers multi-port 800Gigabit-Ethernet connectivity to GPU servers.
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