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PowerLattice Raises $25 Million to Break the AI Power Wall
PowerLattice , the company reimagining power delivery for next-generation AI accelerators, led by Dr. Peng Zou, Gang Ren, and Sujith Dermal, has announced its emergence from stealth with $25 million in Series A funding jointly led by Playground Global and Celesta Capital . The company’s power-delivery chiplet tightly couples power and compute, cutting total power needs by over 50% and effectively doubling performance. PowerLattice has raised $31 million to date. AI accelerat
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Swiss-based YQuantum is Building the Scalable Quantum Hardware
YQuantum , a Swiss startup developing innovative hardware components, unleashing the full potential of quantum computing, led by Dr. Christian Jünger, Dr. Johannes Herrmann, and Prof. Christian Schönenberger, has secured €161,000 (CHF 150,000) from Venture Kick . YQuantum develops compact, high-performance cryogenic hardware to enhance the scalability of quantum systems. Its technology supports high-fidelity superconducting and spin-qubit operations, enabling larger and mor
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Nov 101 min read


Crusoe is Building the AI Factory of the World
Crusoe , the AI infrastructure company led by Chase Lochmiller, Cully Cavness, Matthew DeNezza, Nitin Perumbeti, Chris Dolan, Tara Green, and others, has announced the initial closing of its anticipated $1.375 billion Series E round, bringing the company's expected valuation to over $10 billion. The oversubscribed round was co-led by technology investors Valor Equity Partners and Mubadala Capital , with participation from 137 Ventures , 1789 Capital , Activate Capital , Alt
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Oct 252 min read


Cerebras Systems Leads the Way for the Next Era of AI Infrastructure Game
Cerebras Systems , developer of the fastest AI infrastructure in the industry, led by Andrew Feldman, Jean-Philippe Fricker, Michael...
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Oct 21 min read


Rebellions Raises $250 Million to Forge the Next Generation of AI Infrastructure, in Alliance with Arm and Samsung
Rebellions , developer of next-gen AI inference chips, led by Sunghyun Park, Jinwook Oh, Hyo-Eun Kim, and Sungkyue Shin, has secured...
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Sep 301 min read


Groq Raises $750 Million in Funding at a Post-Money Valuation of $6.9 Billion
Groq , an AI Chip Developer led by Jonathan Ross, Sunny Madra, Ian Andrews, Chelsey Susin Kantor, Igor Arsovski, Allison Hopkins, and...
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Sep 181 min read


Sonair Raises $6 Million to Accelerate Rollout of World’s First Safe 3D Ultrasonic Sensor for Robots
Sonair , a robotics company for humans, led by Knut Sandven, Shermine Gotfredsen, Gussi Bull, Dag Wang, PhD, Tor Odland, and others, has...
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Sep 171 min read


Dyna Robotics Raises $120 Million in Funding
Dyna Robotics , a general-purpose robotics developer powering the future of the physical economy led by Lindon Gao, Jason Ma, and York...
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Sep 161 min read


EcoDataCenter Raises an Additional EUR 600 Million
EcoDataCenter , a data and digital infrastructure company, led by Peter Michelson , Mikael Svanfeldt , Johan Östlund , PJ Andersson ,...
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Sep 91 min read


Scintil Photonics Raises $58 Million to Scale Integrated Photonics for AI Factories
Scintil Photonics , a fabless company developing and commercializing laser-integrated photonics for the AI data center, led by Matt...
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Sep 92 min read


SiMa.ai Secures $85 Million to Scale Physical AI
SiMa.ai , developer of purpose-built hardware and software solutions for Physical AI, led by Krishna Rangasayee, Gopal Hegde, Harry...
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Aug 41 min read


AI Chip Developer Rebellions AI Secures Backing from Samsung Ahead of IPO
South Korean AI Chip Developer, Rebellions AI , led by Sunghyun Park(CEO and Co-Founder), Jinwook Oh(Co-Founder and CTO), Hyo-Eun...
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Jul 302 min read


AI-Powered Custom Circuit Boards Designer and Developer Diode Raised $11.4 Million in Series A
Diode Computers , a company that helps hardware companies automate the design and development of PCBs, led by Davide Asnaghi(Co-Founder...
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Jul 241 min read


ITHCA Group and Amazon Invest in Programmable Optics Company Lumotive
Programmable Optics Company Lumotive , led by Sam Heidari, Ph.D. (CEO), Gleb Akselrod, Ph.D. (CTO and Founder), Apurva Jain, Ph.D .(VP of...
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Jul 231 min read


Nudge Secures $100 Million in Series A to Build Whole Brain Interfaces for Everyday Life
Led by Co-Founders Quintin Frerichs and Fred Ehrsam , Nudge raised $100 Million in Series A led by Thrive Capital and Greenoaks ....
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Jul 231 min read


LG AI Research Partners with FuriosaAI to achieve 2.25x Better LLM Inference Performance vs. GPUs
FuriosaAI’s RNGD (“Renegade”) accelerator has passed LG AI Research’s performance tests with its EXAONE LLMs, delivering high throughput,...
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Jul 222 min read


Q.ANT Raises €62M Series A to Revolutionize AI & HPC with Photonic Processors
Q.ANT, a pioneer in photonic processing, led by Andreas Abt (SVP, Native Computing), Dr. Michael Förtsch (CEO), and Tim Stiegler (CFO),...
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Jul 181 min read


French High Performance - Energy Efficient Chip Maker SiPearl Announces Close of €130 Million Series A with a third and last tranche of €32 Million
Led by Philippe Notton(CEO & Founder), Ying-Chih Yang(Chief Technical Officer), Gael Paul(Senior Vice-President, Engineering), Craig...
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Jul 101 min read


Developer of World's First Smart Contact Lenses Xpanceo Raises $250 Million at a $1.35 Billion Valuation
Co-founded by Roman Axelrod and Valentyn Volkov , Xpanceo has raised $250 million at a $1.35 billion valuation led by Opportunity...
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Jul 91 min read


Photonic Chip Maker Arago Raises $26 Million to Reduce Compute Energy Consumption
Led by Nicolas M(CEO), Ambroise Muller(CSO), and Eliott Sarrey(CTO), Arago has raised $26 million, co-led by Earlybird , Protagonist ,...
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Jul 81 min read
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