Silicon Data, a GPU market data infrastructure company, said it completed the first close of a $30.5 million Series A round led by Valor Atreides AI Fund, with participation from CME Ventures, DRW, Samsung Next, VanEck, Jump Trading and Wintermute. The company said it will use the capital to build benchmark pricing, performance measurement, institutional and alternative data, and risk infrastructure for derivatives, insurance and credit markets tied to GPUs. Silicon Data currently collects data from about 100 GPU rental platforms across more than 40 countries and processes more than 150,000 verified price records a day. CME Group plans to use Silicon Data benchmarks as the reference price for proposed cash-settled GPU futures, pending regulatory approval.