Etched

Kleiner Perkins (Mamoon Hamid) announced investment in Etched, an AI inference chip company building purpose-built hardware for transformer models. Etched has working silicon, $1B+ in signed customer contracts, and Jane Street as first production customer.

WSJ profiled portfolio company Etched, now valued at $21B, for aggressively hiring Nvidia talent.

Named among the investor group backing Etched's $300M Series C at a $10.3B valuation.

Managing Partner Jack Selby discussed Copper Sky's Arizona semiconductor-industry connections and its investment in Etched with TechCrunch.

Portfolio company Etched announced investment from Jane Street and a TSMC-linked VC.