Positron
formerly Positron AIMaking GPUs Optional
Reno, United States · Founded 2023 · $305.1M raised
- Headquarters
- Reno, Nevada
- Employees
- 11–50
- Founded
- 2023
- Business Model
- B2B
- Website
- positron.ai
- Total Funding
- $305.1M
- Last Round
- $230.0M Series BMay 2026
- Rounds
- 4
About
Founded in the spring of 2023 and headquartered in Reno, Nevada, Positron is an AI inference hardware company on a mission to make LLM inference efficient and affordable. The company's first product, Atlas, is the world's first LLM-inference-first accelerator—built in 18 months, manufactured in the United States—delivering 3x lower end-to-end latency and 1/3rd the power consumption of comparable NVIDIA H100 systems. Positron's technology is used by networking, gaming, content moderation, CDN, and Token-as-a-Service companies. The company has raised over $300 million in total funding, including a $230 million Series B at over $1 billion valuation, and is developing its next-generation Titan silicon platform to further extend its inference efficiency advantage.
Summary
Positron is an Artificial Intelligence company based in Reno, United States, founded in 2023. It has raised $305.1M in total across 4 rounds, most recently a $230.0M Series B round in May 2026. Investors include Valor Equity Partners, DFJ and Banyan Ventures.
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Funding History
May 2026
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Investors

Valor Equity Partners
2 rounds
DFJ
2 rounds
Banyan Ventures
2 rounds
ARENA Private Wealth
1 round
Jump Trading
1 round
Unless
1 round
Atreides Management
1 round
Oak Seed Ventures
1 round
Qatar Investment Authority
1 round

ARM
1 round
Helena
1 round

Flume Ventures
1 round
Resilience Reserve
1 round
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