AMD Ventures

Corporate venture arm
Santa Clara, California, USASee connections →Compare with TemasekVenture arm of AMD

At a glance

AMD Ventures appears in 11 funding rounds tracked by ValueAddVC since 2024. Its most frequent sectors in these rounds are AI & Infrastructure and Semiconductors & Hardware, and its most recent tracked deal was Salience Labs' $125M Series B round (Oct 14, 2026). It co-invests most often with Nvidia, Temasek and Cisco Investments.

Strategy

Geographies
Santa Clara, California, USA

Recent changes

  1. Oct 14, 2026Invested in Salience Labs (Series B, $125M) MarketMinute
  2. Oct 9, 2026Invested in Oxide Computer (Series D, $445M) PR Newswire
  3. Oct 6, 2026Invested in Vinci (Series B, $250M) Financial Content
  4. Sep 28, 2026AMD Buys Fei-Fei Li's World Labs For $8.2B Pulse story
  5. Aug 28, 2026Invested in Stability AI (Series B, $76M) Variety
Earlier changes (8)
  1. Aug 17, 2026Invested in River (Seed, $1.1B) TechCrunch
  2. Jul 20, 2026Invested in CuspAI (Series B, $450M) CNBC
  3. Jun 17, 2026Invested in Odyssey (Series B, $310M) Odyssey
  4. Jun 17, 2026Odyssey Raises $310M at $1.45B -- Amazon and AMD Bet on World Models for Physical AI Pulse story
  5. Jun 17, 2026Odyssey Raises $310M Series B for AI Infrastructure -- Amazon and AMD In Pulse story
  6. Jun 10, 2026Invested in Hark (Series A, $700M) Crunchbase News
  7. Jul 15, 2025Invested in Thinking Machines (Seed, $2B) TechCrunch
  8. Jul 2024Invested in Cohere (Growth, $500M) Wikipedia

Portfolio

13 total

Recent Investment Activity

12

Track record: led 0 and participated in 11 of 11 tracked venture rounds · 9 in the last 12 months

DateCompanyEventRoleAmountValuationInvestorsSource
Oct 14, 2026Salience LabsSeries BParticipated$125M—
Bullhound CapitalLeadunverifiedAMD VenturesunverifiedIntel CapitalunverifiedSBI HoldingsunverifiedBritish Business BankunverifiedApplied VenturesunverifiedHudson River TradingOxford Science EnterprisesCambridge Innovation CapitalSilicon Catalyst Ventures
MarketMinute
Oct 9, 2026Oxide ComputerSeries DParticipated$445M—
Eclipse VenturesLeadunverifiedRiot VenturesunverifiedJane StreetunverifiedAtreides ManagementunverifiedAMD VenturesunverifiedUS Innovative Technology Fund
PR Newswire
Oct 6, 2026VinciSeries BParticipated$250M$1.5B
Advent InternationalLeadunverifiedTemasekLeadunverifiedXoraLeadunverifiedAMD VenturesunverifiedEclipse VenturesunverifiedKhosla VenturesunverifiedMadrona Venturesunverified
Financial Content
Aug 28, 2026Stability AISeries BParticipated$76M—Variety
Aug 17, 2026RiverSeedParticipated$1.1B—
General CatalystLeadunverifiedNvidiaunverifiedAMD VenturesunverifiedY CombinatorunverifiedTemasekunverifiedAMP PBC
TechCrunch
Jul 20, 2026CuspAISeries BParticipated$450M$2.6B
Kleiner PerkinsLeadunverifiedNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)LeadunverifiedBezos ExpeditionsunverifiedGlade Brook CapitalunverifiedLux CapitalunverifiedAMD VenturesunverifiedTemasekunverifiedUK Sovereign AI Venture Fund
CNBC
Jul 15, 2026Spectro CloudSeries DParticipated$100M+—
Goldman Sachs AlternativesLeadunverifiedAMD VenturesunverifiedLG Technology VenturesunverifiedEricssonMaximus
Spectro Cloud
Jun 17, 2026OdysseySeries BParticipated$310M$1.45BOdyssey
Jun 10, 2026HarkSeries AParticipated$700M—Crunchbase News
May 14, 2026CerebrasIPOParticipated$6.4B$56.4BSEC EDGAR (Cerebras 8-K)
Jul 15, 2025Thinking MachinesSeedParticipated$2B$12BTechCrunch
Jul 2024CohereGrowthParticipated$500M$5.5BWikipedia

Sector / Stage Activity

By sector (portfolio)
AI infra
5 · 38%
Semiconductors
3 · 23%
Consumer
1 · 8%
Cloud
1 · 8%
EV/Mobility
1 · 8%
AI
1 · 8%
By stage (tracked rounds)
Series B
5 · 42%
Series D
2 · 17%
Seed
2 · 17%
Series A
1 · 8%
IPO
1 · 8%
Growth
1 · 8%

Co-Investors

12

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Value Add Research

Latest Pulse

  1. Salience Labs Raises $125M For Photonic AI NetworkingSalience Labs has closed an oversubscribed $125 million Series B led by Bullhound Capital to scale its photonic optical-switching chips for AI datacenter networking, with AMD Ventures and Intel Capital joining as new investors.→
  2. Oxide Computer Raises $445M To Scale Its Own CloudOxide Computer raised a $445 million Series D led by Eclipse, with new backing from AMD Ventures and Atreides Management, to expand manufacturing of its on-premises cloud hardware.→
  3. Vinci4D Raises $250M Series B At $1.5B ValuationVinci4D closed a $250 million Series B at a $1.5 billion valuation, co-led by Advent, Temasek and Xora, to scale an AI-driven engineering simulation platform that started with chip thermal modeling.→
  4. Vinci Raises $250M At $1.5B To Simulate Chips With AIVinci, a Palo Alto startup using AI to simulate chip and hardware physics, raised a $250 million Series B at a $1.5 billion valuation led by Advent, Temasek and Xora, less than a year after emerging from stealth.→
  5. AMD Buys Fei-Fei Li's World Labs For $8.2BAMD is paying $8.2 billion in stock for Fei-Fei Li's spatial-intelligence startup World Labs, a direct answer to Nvidia's own world-model push and its pending Hugging Face acquisition.→
  6. Stability AI Raises $76M From Music, Gaming GiantsStable Diffusion maker Stability AI raised a $76 million Series B from Universal Music, Sony Music, Warner Music, Electronic Arts and AMD Ventures, bringing total funding to $232 million as it expands into creative production tools.→
  7. August's Mega-Rounds Have Already Cleared $9BFive disclosed rounds in the first two weeks of August 2026 -- Databricks, Firmus, River AI, Lovable and Form Energy -- total roughly $9.25 billion, with data infrastructure and AI compute taking three quarters of it.→
  8. The Seed Round Is Now an Infrastructure RoundRiver AI raised $1.1 billion across a seed and Series A two months after leaving stealth, the clearest example yet of a 2026 pattern where pre-product AI infrastructure companies raise growth-stage sums at formation.→
  9. General Catalyst Leads $1.1B Round Into 2-Month-Old River AIRiver AI, founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, raised $1.1 billion led by General Catalyst just two months after stealth, betting enterprises can train AI models without a dedicated infra team.→
  10. Odyssey Raises $310M Series B at $1.45B to Build AI World ModelsOdyssey, founded by self-driving veterans Oliver Cameron and Jeff Hawke, raised a $310 million Series B at a $1.45 billion valuation to build AI world models that simulate real-world physics and causality. Natural Capital led, with Amazon, AMD Ventures and GV joining -- and a strategic AWS Trainium compute deal pointed pointedly away from Nvidia.→

AMD Ventures FAQ

What companies has AMD Ventures invested in?

AMD Ventures' portfolio includes Salience Labs, Oxide Computer, Vinci, World Labs, Cohere, Stability AI, and 7 more tracked companies.

Who does AMD Ventures co-invest with most?

In the rounds Value Add tracks, AMD Ventures most often invests alongside Nvidia (5 shared deals), Eclipse Ventures (3 shared deals), Greycroft (3 shared deals), Temasek (3 shared deals), Andreessen Horowitz (2 shared deals).

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