💰 Silicon Data raises $30.5M in an initial closing of its Series A round led by Valor Atreides AI Fund (Valor Equity Partners / Atreides Management)

Investors in the round include CME Ventures, DRW Trading, F-Prime Capital, Samsung Next, VanEck, Further, Jump Trading, Tectonic Ventures, and Wintermute, with participation from Breed VC, Hack VC, Blank VC, Sancus Ventures, and SoGal Ventures.

Silicon Data is the independent benchmark and verification layer for the AI compute economy, daily GPU pricing benchmarks from ~100 rental platforms across 40+ countries, 150K+ verified pricing records a day, plus the GPU Forward Curve, Silicon Data Token Index, RAM Index, and SiliconMark performance benchmarking. CME Group is preparing to use Silicon Data's benchmarks as the reference price for its planned cash-settled GPU futures market (pending regulatory approval).

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