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title: "Eclipse turns $147M Cerebras bet into $2.5B windfall"
type: "News"
locale: "en"
url: "https://longbridge.com/en/news/286682208.md"
description: "Eclipse Ventures transformed a $147 million investment in Cerebras into a $2.5 billion return following the AI chipmaker's successful IPO. This outcome supports Eclipse's view that hardware and infrastructure are key areas for venture capital. Cerebras' innovative wafer-scale chip technology positions it as a competitor to Nvidia, securing significant contracts with OpenAI and AWS."
datetime: "2026-05-17T20:43:18.000Z"
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# Eclipse turns $147M Cerebras bet into $2.5B windfall

Record IPO payday: Eclipse Ventures turned a $147 million total investment in Cerebras into $2.5 billion after the AI chipmaker's blockbuster public debut. Physical-world thesis: The windfall validates Eclipse's long-held belief in hardware and infrastructure plays as the next big venture capital frontier. AI infrastructure boom: Cerebras' wafer-scale chip technology positions it as a potential rival to Nvidia, attracting major contracts from OpenAI and AWS.

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