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Cisco-backed Silicon Valley startup Eliyan raises $145M at $1B valuation to build the future of AI interconnects

Eliyan, a Santa Clara-based chip interconnect startup backed by Cisco, raised $145 million in an oversubscribed Series C round at a $1 billion valuation to develop advanced interconnects for AI systems.

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Santa Clara-based chip interconnect startup Eliyan has raised $145 million in an oversubscribed Series C, valuing the company…

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techfundingnews.com — original article Sure Valley Ventures has been running on AI agents for 18 months. Now it’s open-sourcing everything it learned: Here’s what’s inside UNIT AI raises $12M from Prologis Ventures and sennder-backer Dynamo to modularise warehouse automation Micron, MediaTek back ChipAgents as AI startup extends series A to $134M on 6x ARR growth
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