AI SILICON & COMPILERS
TensorForge Silicon: From Compiler Preprint to $1.4B Series C Category Leader
APEX ENTRY CHECK
Led $3.8M Seed ($18M Post)
CURRENT MILESTONE
$1.4B Series C · $68M ARR
MANDATE TRACK
Institutional Seed Lead
01 // DAY-0 NON-CONSENSUS TECHNICAL INSIGHT
While consensus VCs assumed proprietary GPU moats were permanent, TensorForge demonstrated 3.4x token throughput on commodity accelerators without model retraining.
02 // POST-CHECK COMPUTE, LAB & TALENT EXECUTION
Apex provided a 128-GPU bare-metal testbed on Day 1, recruited their first 6 kernel engineers, and introduced 4 Fortune 100 cloud design partners.
03 // COMMERCIAL TRAJECTORY & DISCLOSURE
Scaled from $0 to $68M ARR in 34 months, raising a $160M Series C at $1.4B valuation while founders retained >54% combined voting ownership.
01 // APEX VENTURES
DeepTech Seed & Series A
$420M Fund IV leading $1.5M–$12M checks in AI silicon, robotics, computational bio, and grid infrastructure.
02 // CAPITAL & PORTFOLIO
Mandate & Ledger
Clean 1x non-participating preferred governance plus $350K non-dilutive H100 compute access.
03 // PARTNERSHIP
Bench & Research
Every memo read directly by former-founder General Partners in San Francisco, New York, and Zurich.
04 // GOVERNANCE & DOCS
Disclosures & Manual
SEC/Advisers Act non-solicitation notices, founder confidentiality, and 12-station owner manual.
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