About Nexthop AI
Santa Clara maker of custom Ethernet switching systems for hyperscale AI data centers, founded by former Arista executive Anshul Sadana. It launched in March 2025 with $110 million led by Lightspeed and raised a $500 million Series B in March 2026 at a reported $4.2 billion valuation. A March 2026 product launch covered scale-out, scale-across and front-end switches using Broadcom silicon.
Nexthop AI was founded in 2024 and is based in Santa Clara, CA, United States. It is listed under Interconnect & Networking, AI Accelerators. Reported funding is $500M Series B, Mar 2026.
Compute Technologies
- AI Accelerators
What Nexthop AI works on
Interconnect & Networking
Interconnect is the set of links that move data between chips, between boards and between racks. It includes wires on a package, cables inside a server, and the network switches and optical fibre across a data center. A processor is only as useful as the speed at which it can get data in and out.
AI Accelerators
An AI accelerator is a chip, or a part of a chip, designed to run machine learning faster or with less energy than a general-purpose processor. The category includes GPUs, TPUs, neural processing units (NPUs) and chips from many startups.
