Odaily Planet Daily report: Silicon Data, a market data infrastructure company for the GPU industry, announced the first close of its $30.5 million Series A financing, led by Valor Atreides AI Fund, with participation from CME Ventures, DRW, Samsung Next, VanEck, Jump Trading, and Wintermute. The funds will be used to develop GPU benchmark pricing, performance measurement, institutional and alternative data, and risk infrastructure for derivatives, insurance, and credit markets.
Silicon Data currently collects data from approximately 100 GPU rental platforms across more than 40 countries worldwide, processing over 150,000 verified price records daily. CME Group plans to adopt the Silicon Data benchmark as the reference price for its proposed cash-settled GPU futures, subject to regulatory approval.


