Last deal

$61M

Amount

Convertible Note

Stage

30.04.2021

Date

3

all rounds

$124M

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date founded

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About Company
Esperanto Technologies develops energy-efficient AI/ML computing using RISC-V instruction set architecture.

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01.01.2014

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For Profit

Last funding type

Convertible Note

IPO status

Private

Description

Their inference chip is designed to meet large-scale datacenter customers' performance, power, and total cost of ownership requirements, and can accelerate many parallelizable workloads, including ML recommendation models. The company's technology is based on the open standard RISC-V ISA, which provides flexible, scalable, and energy-efficient advantages for AI and beyond. Esperanto has a team of experienced processor and software engineers who aim to make RISC-V the architecture of choice for compute-intensive applications such as Machine Learning.
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Dave Ditzel
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Esperanto Technologies

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Dave Ditzel

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Jacqui Breene

Senior program manager

Shankar Jayaratnam

Shankar Jayaratnam

System SW Lead

Mike Buchanan

Mike Buchanan

Senior Director of Marketing

Duane Northcutt

Duane Northcutt

CTO

Dave Ditzel

Dave Ditzel

Founder and Executive Chairman

Jin Kim

Jin Kim

Chief Data Scientist and VP of Software

Darren Jones

Darren Jones

VP VLSI Engineering

Art Swift

Art Swift

President and CEO

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