Hyperscale networking firm Arrcus has raised $30 million in an investment round that saw participation from Nvidia and Hitachi Ventures.
In a statement, the company said the funding, which also included investments from Prosperity7 Ventures, Lightspeed, Liberty Global, Clear Ventures, and General Catalyst, will allow it to expand platform support and accelerate growth.
Arrcus was founded in 2016 and is based in San Jose, California. It offers advanced networking technologies, including its Leaf-Spine Fabric Architecture and ACE-AI solution for distributed AI workloads.
Its ACE-AI solution is based on the company’s ArcOS and delivers a unified network fabric that optimizes distributed GPU and other compute resources to improve performance for AI and ML workloads.
"We are thrilled to welcome Nvidia as our latest investor and look forward to building on our collaboration. Arrcus’ leading networking software coupled with Nvidia’s AI infrastructure will help deliver maximum efficiency to customers from data centers as well as their Edge and cloud computing environments," said Shekar Ayyar, chairman and CEO of Arrcus.
In a statement, the company said the collaboration between Nvidia and Arrcus will help extend AI data center architectures to distributed configurations supported by modular designs such as the Nvidia MGX platform.
Arrcus’ ACE networking platform already uses Nvidia’s BlueField Networking Platform to help its customers offload, accelerate, and isolate compute-intensive networking applications like security and traffic engineering.
“Modern networks are evolving to address customer needs in the era of AI,” said Kevin Deierling, senior vice president of networking at Nvidia. “We’re collaborating with Arrcus to provide high-performance, secure, and cost-efficient data center networking for a variety of accelerated computing applications.”
Prior to this latest investment round, the company had raised $138 million in funding and counts Amazon Web Services, Equinix, Edgecore networks, and CoreSite among its partners.
In December 2023, the company joined the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC), a group dedicated to delivering Ethernet-based interoperable and high-performance architecture to meet the growing network demands of AI and high-performance computing (HPC). In doing so, Accrus committed to working with other UEC members to develop and standardize new ethernet technologies that support AI and HPC applications.
