{"id":990464,"date":"2026-02-07T08:56:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T03:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=990464"},"modified":"2026-02-07T09:01:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T03:31:21","slug":"vista-equity-partners-and-intel-to-lead-investment-in-ai-chip-startup-sambanova-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/07\/vista-equity-partners-and-intel-to-lead-investment-in-ai-chip-startup-sambanova-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Vista Equity Partners and Intel to lead investment in AI chip startup SambaNova: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Private equity firm \u2060Vista Equity Partners is leading a new funding round of over $350 million in artificial intelligence chip startup SambaNova Systems, marking a rare departure from its traditional focus on enterprise software, according to people familiar with the matter. <\/p>\n<p>Vista, through a partnership with early-stage venture capital firm Cambium Capital, is investing in \u200cthe Series E round for \u200cthe chipmaker, three sources told Reuters. Other investors in the oversubscribed round include existing backer Intel Corp, which currently plans to invest about $100 million, with potential commitments of up \u200cto $150 million, two of the sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Private equity firm \u2060Vista Equity Partners is leading a new funding round of over $350 million in artificial intelligence chip startup SambaNova Systems, marking a rare departure from its traditional focus on enterprise software, according to people familiar with the matter. Vista, through a partnership with early-stage venture capital firm Cambium Capital, is investing in \u200cthe Series E round for \u200cthe chipmaker, three sources told Reuters. Other investors in the oversubscribed round include existing backer Intel Corp, which currently plans to invest about $100 million, with potential commitments of up \u200cto $150 million, two of the sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}