# AMD Ventures

> AMD Ventures is a VC fund in Sunnyvale backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 43 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sunnyvale, United States
- Total investments: 43
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 21%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/amd
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/amd
- Website: http://www.amd.com/en-us/who-we-are/corporate-information/ventures#sectionfive
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/amd

AMD Ventures is a VC fund in Sunnyvale focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Through AMD Ventures, AMD’s investment program, AMD invests in strategic software and application ecosystem companies that serve large and growing markets.AMD’s product strategy synergistically combines both CPU and GPU technology to create APUs (Accelerated Processing Units) that promote improved user experiences by enhancing the vibrantworldwide AMD ecosystem. This ecosystem includes new software, hardware, business models, CE devices, intellectual property, processes, support models and other new developments. Through our investment program, AMD works with the companies in which it invests to enable differentiated solutions optimized on AMD hardware platforms.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $20M–$2B |
| Series A | $1.5M–$650M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 12 | 28% |
| Software | 8 | 19% |
| Machine Learning | 8 | 19% |
| Semiconductor | 4 | 9% |
| Cloud Computing | 4 | 9% |

51 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 8 | 19% |
| Funding Round | 8 | 19% |
| Seed | 4 | 9% |
| Series C | 4 | 9% |
| Series B | 3 | 7% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 18 | 42% |
| Israel | 3 | 7% |
| Canada | 2 | 5% |
| Italy | 1 | 2% |
| Australia | 1 | 2% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Spectro Cloud | Spectro Cloud is an enterprise software company that develops an AI infrastructure and cloud-native infrastructure management platform for enterprises and public sector organizations. It helps organizations deploy, manage, govern, and scale Kubernetes, virtual machines, edge computing, and AI infrastructure across public cloud, private cloud, baremetal, and edge environments through a unified control plane.The company's flagship platforms, Palette and PaletteAI, provide Kubernetes lifecycle management, AI infrastructure orchestration, GPU resource management, virtual machine modernization, edge computing management, policy-based governance, security, and infrastructure automation. The platforms enable organizations to provision and manage infrastructure from operating systems to applications and AI models, automate cluster operations, enforce security and compliance policies, optimize GPU utilization, and operate distributed environments, including air-gapped and sovereign deployments, at enterprise scale. | $100M | Series D | Jul 15, 2026 |  |
| Turing | Turing develops and manufactures fully autonomous vehicles. | $43M | Series A | Jul 06, 2026 |  |
| TensorWave | TensorWave provides cloud infrastructure designed for artificial intelligence workloads, offering access to AMD-powered GPU computing resources for model training, fine-tuning, and inference. The company delivers a full-stack AI platform that combines compute, storage, networking, orchestration, and managed services to support the deployment andscaling of machine learning applications. Its platform is built around AMD Instinct accelerators and supports widely used AI frameworks and tools, including PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, Hugging Face, and Kubernetes-based environments. TensorWave also offers enterprise capabilities such as workload monitoring, security controls, managed Kubernetes and Slurm services, and software layers that help organizations manage AI operations across the model lifecycle. The company focuses on providing open, scalable infrastructure that enables organizations to develop, train, and run AI models without relying on proprietary hardware ecosystems. | $350M | Series B | Jun 10, 2026 |  |
| TensorWave | TensorWave provides cloud infrastructure designed for artificial intelligence workloads, offering access to AMD-powered GPU computing resources for model training, fine-tuning, and inference. The company delivers a full-stack AI platform that combines compute, storage, networking, orchestration, and managed services to support the deployment andscaling of machine learning applications. Its platform is built around AMD Instinct accelerators and supports widely used AI frameworks and tools, including PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, Hugging Face, and Kubernetes-based environments. TensorWave also offers enterprise capabilities such as workload monitoring, security controls, managed Kubernetes and Slurm services, and software layers that help organizations manage AI operations across the model lifecycle. The company focuses on providing open, scalable infrastructure that enables organizations to develop, train, and run AI models without relying on proprietary hardware ecosystems. | $350M | Series B | Jun 10, 2026 |  |
| Tensormesh | Tensormesh is a company that specialises in optimising inference efficiency for large language models (LLMs) and agentic AI systems. | $20M | Seed | May 27, 2026 |  |
| Hark | Hark is an AI lab focused on creating advanced personal intelligence through the combination of foundation models and specialized hardware. The company develops an AI interface through custom hardware and autonomous computing, integrated with multimodal models and highly personalized memory. | $700M | Series A | May 20, 2026 |  |
| Featherless.ai | Featherless.ai is a serverless AI hosting provider with GPU orchestration system. | $20M | Series A | Apr 30, 2026 |  |
| Recursive | Recursive Superintelligence develops artificial intelligence systems designed to autonomously improve their own capabilities through recursive self-learning processes. The company focuses on building AI models and frameworks that can iteratively refine their performance without direct human intervention, targeting the automation of the full AIdevelopment lifecycle. Its technology aims to handle tasks such as experiment design, model training, evaluation, and optimization within a continuous feedback loop, enabling AI systems to enhance themselves over time. This approach is based on recursive methodologies, where outputs are used to inform subsequent improvements, supporting the development of increasingly capable machine learning systems.The company operates as an AI research and development platform, combining machine learning, deep learning, and automated decision-making processes to reduce reliance on manual engineering workflows. Its systems are intended for applications that require scalable AI development, including advanced research, enterprise AI deployment, and complex data-driven environments. | $650M | Series A | Apr 18, 2026 |  |
| Video Rebirth | Video Rebirth Limited is a private limited company that is established with shares. | $30M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 17, 2026 |  |
| Ayar Labs | Ayar Labs develops a monolithic in-package optical I/O (MIPO) solution for applications that require high bandwidth, low latency, and power-efficient short-reach interconnects.The company disrupts the traditional performance, cost, and efficiency curves of the semiconductor and computing industries by driving improvement in interconnectbandwidth density at lower power. Its patented approach uses industry-standard cost-effective silicon processing techniques to develop high speed, high density, low power optical-based interconnect “chiplets” and lasers to replace traditional electrical-based I/O. Ayar’s flagship product is a chip called TeraPhy that implements its optical technology on compact silicon die. The chip can be integrated directly into a central processing unit, graphics card, or another processor to give it optical data transmission capabilities.The Emeryville, California-headquartered company was established in 2015 by Alex Wright-Gladstein, Vladimir Stojanovic, Chen Sun, and Mark Wade. | $500M | Series E | Feb 28, 2026 |  |

10 of 43 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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- [Intel Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/intel-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Koch Disruptive Technologies](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/koch-disruptive-technologies) — VC Fund, 5 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does AMD Ventures invest in?

AMD Ventures invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Machine Learning startups, most often at Series A and Funding Round stage. Most of the 43 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is AMD Ventures's check size?

AMD Ventures typically joins rounds of $20M–$2B at Seed and $1.5M–$650M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds AMD Ventures participates in.

### When did AMD Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for AMD Ventures closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 43 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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