Eridu

AI Chips & Accelerators · Network Equipment
23open roles
$187.5Mlatest round · Venture round · Mar 2026 · 8 mo ago
4backers · In-Q-Tel, Fusion Fund
Growinghiring pace, 61 of 100

Overview

Eridu is a Silicon Valley-based hardware startup building infrastructure solutions that accelerate AI data centers, with innovations across silicon, packaging, software and systems. Its job ads seek RTL engineers, ASIC design verification leads, power engineers and thermal and mechanical engineers in Saratoga, Bengaluru and Taipei. The company is headquartered in Saratoga, California, United States.

How Eridu hires

Truth index
A 85/100
Median time to fill
147 days
Ghost roles
16%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%

Eridu scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 25 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 16% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 147 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Funding and backers

Total raised
$187.5M
1 round on record
Latest round
$187.5M
Venture round · Mar 2026 · 8 mo ago
Team
75
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +317% in a year
Hiring now
25
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
4
In-Q-Tel, Fusion Fund
The money's age
Fresh money
8 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
22/100
hiring for its size, fresh money
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Aug 19 First sales or marketing role Senior Manager, Product Marketing Aug 5 First role in Taiwan Senior Advanced Packaging Engineer (Taiwan) Mar 6 Raised a round Venture round $187.5M · SEC Form D 2025 Team of 75 was 18 · US Form 5500 (plan participants) 2024 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 9%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Mar 2026 $187.5M — SEC Form D
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity Eridu Corp SEC Form D
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Brian KinardExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Drew PerkinsExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Jobs

≈ $119k – $219k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · 10+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Saratoga
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≈ $23k – $52k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · 10+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Taipei
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≈ $122k – $224k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Saratoga
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≈ $155k – $320k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · 12+ years exp · Saratoga
BGP
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≈ $18k – $41k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · 6+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Bengaluru
Python
C++
Mojo
TCP/IP
BGP
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Visa sponsorship

#2,944 of 8,998 sponsors
4 ▲ 100%
H-1B filings in 12 months
$218k
Median offered salary
19
Open roles in United States
Who they sponsor
Computer hardware engineers
2
Electrical engineers
1
Software developers
1
The salary offered for each occupationVisa pass · 90 credits
In the register as ERIDU CORPORATION, Saratoga, CA
Other sponsors in the same field
US Department of Labor · latest filing Jun 29, 2026 · Visa details by country

Growth

Hiring Momentum
61/100
Growing
Open positions
25
0 opened / 6 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
148 days
faster than 7% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
11/07/2026
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Hardware
50%
Industrial Engineering
31% ▼
Backend
6% ▼
HR
6% ▲
Marketing
6% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added STAR-CCM+ to stack Oct 2026
Added GD&T to stack Oct 2026
New location: Saratoga Sep 2026
New location: Taipei Sep 2026
Added OSPF to stack Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack Sep 2026
Added BGP to stack Sep 2026
Added Unix to stack Sep 2026
Added VLAN to stack Sep 2026
Added TCP/IP to stack Sep 2026
Added MPLS to stack Sep 2026
Added Mentor Xpedition to stack Sep 2026

Financials

Total raised
$187.5M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2026 $187.5M Details

People

Brian Kinard
Executive Officer
Drew Perkins
Executive Officer, Director
Christian Gallagher
Director
Jagdeep Singh
Director
Omar Hassen
Director
Dipender Saluja
Director
Wen Hsieh
Director
Names and roles come from public filings, company registers and the company's own site. Is this you? Correct or remove · How we handle this data

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Eridu over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
34
Postings analysed
25
Stack modernity
64/100AI adopter
Languages
Mojo52%
Python48%
C++32%
MATLAB12%
Frameworks & libraries
CUDA4%
NCCL4%
PyTorch4%
ROCm4%
Cloud & platforms
Linux20%
GitLab CI8%
GitHub4%
U-Boot4%
AI & ML
BERT4%
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Connections

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Graph
Found in company registers, site code, DNS and hiring. Each connection shows how sure we are and the evidence, with its source and date.
Shared investors4
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In-Q-TelVia a fund
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Fusion FundVia a fund
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News

News Pulse 2.0 8 months ago
Eridu: $200+ Million Raised By AI Networking Company To Break Through Data Center 'Network Wall'
Eridu, an AI networking company building infrastructure designed specifically for large-scale artificial intelligence systems, has emerged from stealth with more than $200 million in funding to address a growing bottleneck in AI data center performance.
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Report
Blog 10 months ago
The Surge of AI Data Centers: Powering the Intelligence Revolution
The artificial intelligence boom isn't just transforming software-it's reshaping the physical infrastructure of computing itself. Across the globe, AI data centers are sprouting up at an unprecedented pace, driven by the insatiable computational demands o
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How the Euphrates shaped Eridu, the oldest city in history The Jerusalem Post
The irrigation network consists of over 200 primary canals, some of which stretch up to nine kilometers in length and are between two and five meters wide.
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
3
Countries
3
Busiest office
Saratoga
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Saratoga United States
HQ
Let’s Connect
19 open roles 7 posted in 90 days 63% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for Hardware, Backend, Industrial Engineering
12900 Saratoga Ave, Saratoga California 95070
seen since May 2025 company site, job postings
Taipei Taiwan
Plant / site
4 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Hardware, Industrial Engineering
seen since Aug 2026 job postings
Bengaluru India
Engineering / R&D
2 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Backend
seen since Oct 2025 job postings
Earlier presence
Hsinchu, Taiwan 1 open roles · last posting Aug 2026