Good luck Series C financing In November, legendary South Korean AI chip startup Rebellions raised an additional $400 million.
The latest round of financing, which comes ahead of an IPO planned for later this year, was led by Mirae Asset Financial Group and the Korea National Development Fund. And this comes at the same time that the company is busy an aggressive expansion attempt – recently announced his plans increasing its presence not only in Asia but also in the Middle East and the United States
Founded in 2020, Rebellions develops and designs artificial intelligence chips, while also outsourcing their manufacturing. The startup’s chips are designed for inference — the computation needed for AI models to respond to user queries. As LLMs matured and began to see widespread commercial application, derivation increased in importance.
The company closed $124 million in one year Series B in 2024. Later, in November, Rebellions raised an additional $250 million during its Series C round. As of today, the company’s total fundraising is now $850 million — $650 million of which has been raised in the past six months. Meanwhile, the company said on Monday that the startup is valued at about $2.34 billion.
In addition to the funding round, Rebellions also announced the release of two new products: RebelRack and RebelPOD, described as AI infrastructure platforms. POD represents a production-ready output computing unit, while Rack “connects multiple racks into a scalable cluster designed for large-scale AI deployment,” according to the company.
Speaking to TechCrunch, Chief Business Officer Marshall Choy, who is leading Rebellions global expansion efforts, said it recently established entities in the US, Japan, Saudi Arabia and Taiwan. Choy said the company is building an ecosystem of technology partners in the US, where it plans to sue cloud providers, government agencies, telecom operators and Neoclouds. He declined to comment on the timing of the IPO.
“AI is now being measured by its ability to operate at scale in the real world, under power constraints and with clear economic return,” said Sunghyun Park, co-founder and CEO of Rebellions. “This puts the center of gravity on the inference infrastructure and software that makes that infrastructure usable.”
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