SambaNova closes first tranche of B round at 1B valuation
On July 8, 2026 SambaNova announced the first close of a B financing round at an 1B valuation, led by General Atlantic, with JPMorganChase named as a new RDU inference customer.
50M Series E (Feb 2026); prior valuation above B (2021 Series D)
First close of a B round at an 1B valuation (General Atlantic-led, with Seligman Ventures and T. Rowe Price)
SambaNova announced the first close of a B financing round at an 1B valuation on July 8, 2026, led by General Atlantic with participation from Seligman Ventures and T. Rowe Price Associates. The raise roughly doubles the company’s prior ~B valuation and follows a 50M Series E in February 2026.
The announcement also named JPMorganChase as a new customer selecting SambaNova RDUs for fast on-prem AI inference — reinforcing the company’s positioning around premium, high-throughput inference rather than cheapest-token economics. The systems (SambaStack / SambaManaged / SambaRack SN50) business remains sales-quoted with no public price.
July 2026 rate card trimmed to six models: gemma-4-31B-it cut from $0.38/$1.15 to $0.22/$0.59; DeepSeek-V3.1-cb and DeepSeek-R1-Distill dropped; a new Cached Input Tokens column debuts with MiniMax-M2.7 at $0.06/1M cached. DeepSeek-V3.1/V3.2 stay $3.00/$4.50, Llama-3.3-70B $0.60/$1.20. SambaNova closed a $1B round at an $11B valuation (General Atlantic) on July 8, 2026.