d-Matrix, a US-based pioneer in generative AI inference hardware for data centers, has announced a significant new funding round with participation from Qatar Investment Authority (QIA). The investment pushes the company’s valuation to $2 billion and brings its total capital raised to date to $450 million.
The new capital is earmarked to advance d-Matrix’s product roadmap, accelerate its global expansion, and support large-scale deployments of its high-performance, energy-efficient data center inference platform.
The Oversubscribed Round
The funding round was heavily oversubscribed, attracting a global consortium of leading investment firms. The round was co-led by BullhoundCapital, Triatomic Capital, and Singapore’s Temasek.
Alongside QIA, the round welcomed new investor EDBI and saw follow-on participation from existing backers including M12 (Microsoft’s Venture Fund), Mirae Asset, Industry Ventures, and Nautilus Venture Partners.
A New Architecture For AI Inference
d-Matrix is addressing the growing performance and sustainability challenges of AI at scale. The company’s full-stack inference platform combines breakthrough compute-memory integration and high-speed networking with inference-optimized software. The result is a system that delivers 10 times faster performance, three times lower cost, and three to five times better energy efficiency compared to traditional GPU-based systems.
This significant leap in efficiency offers a path to reducing global data center energy consumption. By enabling one data center to manage the workload of ten, d-Matrix empowers enterprises to deliver profitable AI services without compromising on performance or sustainability.
A Vision For The Age Of AI Inference
The company’s leadership foresaw the current bottlenecks in AI infrastructure years ago, focusing on the challenge of inference—the process of running trained AI models at scale.
“From day one, d-Matrix has been uniquely focused on inference. When we started d-Matrix six years ago, training was seen as AI’s biggest challenge, but we knew that a new set of challenges would be coming soon,” said Sid Sheth, CEO and co-founder of d-Matrix. “We predicted that when trained models needed to run continuously at scale, the infrastructure wouldn’t be ready. We’ve spent the last six years building the solution: a fundamentally new architecture that enables AI to operate everywhere, all the time. This funding validates that vision as the industry enters the Age of AI Inference.”
MENA’s Stake in Global AI Infrastructure
QIA’s investment in d-Matrix highlights a strategic trend among Gulf sovereign wealth funds to secure stakes in the foundational technologies powering the global AI revolution. Rather than merely being consumers of AI, this move positions the region as a key financial backer of the critical hardware and infrastructure layers. As MENA nations pursue ambitious economic diversification and digital transformation goals, such investments ensure access to and influence over the next generation of computing architecture essential for sovereign AI capabilities and large-scale enterprise adoption.
About d-Matrix
d-Matrix is pioneering accelerated computing for AI inference, breaking through the limits of latency, cost and energy. Its Corsair accelerators, JetStream networking, and Aviator software deliver fast, sustainable AI inference at data center scale.
Source: QIA
