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Etched raises $300M as AI inference hardware scales
Jul 24, 2026SOURCE: startupfeed.in
SO WHAT
The window is narrowing: control over inference hardware is becoming a strategic gate on who can think at scale.
Sequoia led Etched’s $300 million Series C at a $10.3 billion valuation. The company is preparing to scale inference-cluster production and ship its first racks, another signal that compute is moving from software promise to physical chokepoint.
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