Silicon Data Secures $30.5M Series A to Build the Independent Benchmark Layer for the AI Compute Economy
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Silicon Data, a company building independent benchmarks for the AI compute economy, announced a $30.5 million initial closing of its Series A funding round. The round was led by the Valor Atreides AI Fund, with participation from CME Group, DRW, Samsung, VanEck, and several other investors. The funding will support expansion in benchmark pricing, GPU performance measurement through SiliconMark, institutional market data, and risk infrastructure. This comes as CME Group plans to use Silicon Data benchmarks as the reference price for its proposed cash-settled GPU futures market. Since raising a $4.7 million seed round in March 2025, the company has grown to over 1,000 registered users and developed nine financial-grade indices covering GPUs and LLMs. SiliconMark independently benchmarks physical GPU infrastructure performance, as real-world output can vary based on configuration. The company aims to bring transparency and financial infrastructure similar to mature commodity markets to AI compute.
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