Sid Shade

Fast, Efficient Inference at Scale with Heterogeneous Hardware | Gimlet Labs x d-Matrix | RAISE 2026

Zain Asgar, Sid Sheth, Sid Shade

Gimlet Labs, founded and led by former NVIDIA and Stanford professor Zain Asghar, has secured nearly $80 million in Series A funding to deploy an industry-first multi-silicon cloud capable of making AI inference workloads ten times more efficient. The platform orchestrates heterogeneous hardware by distributing fine-grained AI components across CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs to optimize memory and compute trade-offs for agentic workloads. Operating a vertically integrated infrastructure to manage complex network and cooling challenges, Gimlet partners with chipmakers like D-Matrix to deliver five-fold capacity increases while redefining data center design away from GPU-only scaling.