Shangda Xu

@shangdaxu

Growth investing @a16z

San Francisco, CA

Joined September 2015

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Shangda Xu
@shangdaxu
Sep 4
Heterogenous compute to power differentiated inference! Gimlet is maximizing tokens per watt to deliver low-latency inference without the eye-watering costs. Excited to partner with @zainasgar, Michelle, @oazizi, @nserrino, James, and the entire Gimlet team.
a16z
@a16z
Sep 4
We're thrilled to lead a $300M investment in Gimlet Labs. AI inference is one of the fastest-growing markets in the history of capitalism, and we are running out of nearly every physical input required to serve it. Inference demand compounds at software speed; power plants, data
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Zain Asgar
@zainasgar
Sep 4
1/ Today, we announced Gimlet Labs’ $300M Series B, led by @a16z, joined by @SapphireVC as a major investor bringing our valuation to $3B. We started Gimlet with a simple conviction: inference would become the dominant AI workload, and its infrastructure would need to be rebuilt
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Shangda Xu
@shangdaxu
Aug 28
It's time to build the Machine Age. 🦾
a16z
@a16z
Aug 28
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The Machine Age Fund
We’ve raised $1.1B for a16z’s newest fund: the Machine Age Fund. It’s time to open the throttle and accelerate the physical buildout of AI: the strongest tool ever developed for solving problems and...
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Shangda Xu
@shangdaxu
Aug 4
GPUs are scarce and hardest to secure for startups without big balance sheets. Compute is the new battleground for the next gen of AI companies. That's why we’re thrilled to partner with Ricard Boada and Sofia Gumuzio, who are building Volta, the neocloud for Little Tech.
a16z
@a16z
Aug 4
We're thrilled to co-lead Volta's Series A. Compute isn't distributed evenly. Most startups don't have financeable balance sheets: they're funded 18 months at a time. So they have to pay more money for less flexible compute access, and have to wait longer to get it. Volta is
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Shangda Xu
@shangdaxu
Jul 23
Inference is a huge market; production is the product. Power and supply chains can’t meet demand, making performance and efficiency critical. @Etched is building rack-scale systems to close the gap. Pumped to partner with @UbertiGavin, @robertwachen, @czhu1729 and the whole team!
Etched
@Etched
Jul 23
We’ve raised $300M in Series C funding at a $10.3B valuation from Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Jane Street, Argo, and SK Hynix. Our mission is to run the world's inference. This round accelerates production of our inference clusters. We've opened an 80,000-sqft, 10-MW facility
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Shangda Xu
@shangdaxu
Mar 10
Anshul Sadana helped build Arista into the defining networking company of the last era. Now he and the @nexthopai team, which is one of the strongest hardware and software teams in the industry, are building the networking company for the AI era. Building a networking company
Nexthop AI
@nexthopai
Mar 10
03:06
Big news! We’ve raised $500M to accelerate our mission of delivering highly efficient AI infrastructure. We’re also debuting our foundational portfolio of 3 groundbreaking networking platforms. Huge thanks to our 300+ "Hoppers" and our investors @lightspeedvp @a16z and
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