▶ 22:23 · $D-MATRIX · D-Matrix raises $275M at $2B to challenge Nvidia on inference efficiency

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Former Twitter CEO Building AI Web Infrastructure, Waymo’s Freeway Expansion | Nov 14, 2025

2025-11-15 · 2 company · 4 thematic

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Former CEO of Twitter (over a decade at the company, rising from engineer to CTO to CEO). Founded Parallel Web Systems two years ago to build web infrastructure optimized for AI agents, recently raised $100M at a $740M valuation.

sid sheth

30-year semiconductor veteran; started career at Intel, previously built a $3B business at Inphi (sold to Marvell). Founded D-Matrix in 2019 to build inference-specific accelerators; recently raised $275M at a $2B valuation targeting enterprise AI workloads.

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“Datrix is focused on inference, right? So we don't focus on training which is the other piece of AI computing which you know Nvidia GPUs are extremely good at. ... The whole premise of the platform that we built at Datrix was around optimi…”

—sid sheth

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