Silicon Data aids Wall Street in pricing AI compute resources

Compute is the new crude oil. And just like crude oil, it turns out Wall Street wants to trade it. Silicon Data, a startup positioning itself as the pricing authority for AI compute, has raised $30.5 million in Series A funding to build out the financial plumbing that lets institutions benchmark, hedge, and eventually speculate on GPU rental costs. The round was led by Valor Atreides AI Fund, with CME Group and Samsung Next among the backers. From rental rates to reference prices The company maintains nine financial-grade indices covering GPU rentals and large language model token expenditure. Those indices pull data daily from roughly 100 platforms across more than 40 countries, covering high-demand chips like NVIDIA’s H100 and the newer Blackwell B200 series. CEO Carmen Li has described Silicon Data as the “Bloomberg of GPU pricing.” The company introduced forward curves in April 2026, giving market participants a way to see where GPU rental costs are headed, not just where they’ve been. The Series A follows a $4.7 million seed round closed in March 2025, which means Silicon Data has raised roughly $35 million in total. The new capital is earmarked for expanding its pricing indic...