Graphcore

Accelerating machine learning in the cloud.

About

Founded

2016

Headquarters

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Industry

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Company Description

Graphcore has created a new processor, the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU), specifically designed for artificial intelligence. The IPU’s unique architecture means developers can run current machine learning models orders of magnitude faster. More importantly, it lets AI researchers undertake entirely new types of work, not possible using current technologies, to drive the next great breakthroughs in general machine intelligence.

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Funding

Total Raised

$682 million

Valuation

$2.77 billion

Significant Investors

Sequoia Capital, Foundation Capital, Microsoft

Company Traction

  • Graphcore serves customers across Finance, Biotech, Scientific Research, Consumer Internet, Universities, and Telecom. Graphcore customers include Stanford Medicine, Citadel, Carmot Capital, University of Oxford, Imperial College London, Pacific Northwest National Labratory, and Simula Research Labratory.

Leadership Team

  • Nigel Toon: Co-Founder & CEO of Graphcore. Former Chairman at XMOS.
  • Simon Knowles: Co-Founder & CTO of Graphcore. Former Co-Founder of Element14.
  • John Walsh: COO at Graphcore. Former VP of Products & Integrations at GlobalFoundries.
  • Alan Alexander: VP & Chief Silicon Architect at Graphcore. Former SDK Team Manager at Nvidia.