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Inference performance, where you need it most.

If you put unlimited constraints on cost, power and scalability, Artificial Intelligence is easy. This is how today’s available AI technology has been designed – for cloud computing, delivering inefficient and expensive technologies based on standard and graphic computing architectures – poorly optimized for applications with inference capabilities. For example, hardware for edge applications need a completely innovative design which considers specific computational performance, power and economical needs.

At Axelera® AI, we are revolutionizing the field of artificial intelligence by developing a cutting-edge hardware and software platform for accelerating inference, where ever you want to compute it. Our platform, built using proprietary digital in-memory computing (D-IMC) technology and RISC-V dataflow architecture, delivers industry-leading performance and usability at a fraction of the cost and energy consumption of current solutions.

Today, our Metis® product line is the leading inference accelerator for the edge. But that is just the beginning. Our roadmap, all centered on D-IMC, will scale across every use case, from edge to cloud with chiplets like Titania®.

AI for a green, fair and safe world.

We aim to lead the democratization of Artificial Intelligence. Offering faster, easy-to-use AI acceleration while minimizing power and cost, to simplify AI at the Edge.

What sets us apart is that we are not a regular deep-tech company. Our team brings together world-class expertise across research and development, engineering, software, and business, advised by the brightest minds in AI and backed by major investors including the European Innovation Council Fund, Innovation Industries, Invest-NL, Samsung Catalyst Fund, Verve Ventures, Fractionelera, the Italian sovereign fund CDP Venture Capital SGR, RVO, Bitfury, Federal Holding and the Investment Company of Belgium (SFPIM) and imec. An oversubscribed Series A brought total investment to US$50 million, followed by an oversubscribed US$68 million Series B, totaling US$120 million and marking Europe's largest oversubscribed Series B in the fabless semiconductor industry. Then, we secured more than $250 million in Series C, led by Innovation Industries, with new investors BlackRock and SiteGround Capital joining alongside existing backers. This makes it the largest investment ever in an EU AI semiconductor company, bringing total equity, grants and venture debt raised to over $450 million since our founding in July 2021.

Since our founding, we have taped out four chips, launched our Metis AI Platform, and announced two additional products based on the Europa platform and the Titania chiplet. Unlocking the ease of use of our hardware is the Voyager SDK, which makes deploying machine learning models an effortless task.

We are building the solutions and the ecosystem that will drive the democratization of AI, and with it, a greener, fairer and safer world.

AI for a green, fair and safe world.

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Axelera AI ranked #3 in the 2026 Most Innovative Companies Emerging Enterprise category.

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March 24, 2026

Axelera AI is named one of Europe's Top 100 Rising Startups by VivaTech.

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March 11, 2026

Axelera AI Secures More Than $250 Million Funding on Global Commercial Growth

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February 24, 2026

Axelera AI has been named one of the Top 50 Software Companies of 2025 by The Software Report!

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November 18, 2025

Axelera AI has been named to the 2025 CRN Stellar Startups list in the AI category

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November 09, 2025

Axelera AI in the 50 Hottest Edge Hardware, Software And Services Companies: 2025 Edge Computing 100

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November 04, 2025

Axelera AI Featured in 2025 Sifted AI 100, recognizing Europe’s rising AI startups!

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October 30, 2025

Axelera AI announces Europa AIPU, Setting New Industry Benchmark for AI Accelerator Performance, Power Efficiency and Affordability

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October 20, 2025

Axelera AI Boosts LLMs at the Edge by 2x with Metis M.2 Max Introduction

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September 07, 2025

Axelera AI Launches Global Partner Program to Accelerate Development of Customer-Ready Edge AI Inference Solutions

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June 08, 2025

Axelera AI is chosen as one of the first recipients of the EIC Step Up investment program

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April 02, 2025

Axelera AI receives up to €61.6m as part of the EuroHPC DARE Project and announces the future chiplet "TitaniaTM"

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March 05, 2025

Arduino and Axelera AI partner to further democratize AI access globally

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December 15, 2024

Axelera AI is co-funded by the European Union's Horizon research and innovation programme

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August 27, 2024

Axelera AI Raises $68 Million Series B Funding to Accelerate Next-Generation Artificial Intelligence.

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June 25, 2024

Axelera AI Selected for the Tech Tour Growth50 Europe List 2024

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January 25, 2024

Global innovators partner with Axelera AI leverage Metis platform for enhanced Edge AI capabilities

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January 08, 2024

Received Rising Star award by Deloitte

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November 02, 2023

Announced Stephen Owen joined Axelera AI as an Advisor Read the Media Alert, or check out this interview

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November 13, 2023

Announced Inder Singh, former ARM CFO, joining Axelera AI Board of Directors Read the Press Release

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October 17, 2023

Announced shipment of our Metis AI Platform to our first customers. Read the Press Release

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September 11, 2023

Announced new investors who have joined their oversubscribed Series A round, bringing the total amount raised to $50 million. The new investors include CDP Venture Capital, Verve Ventures, and Fractionelera. Innovation Industries has increased its investment, becoming the largest investor. Read the press release

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May 21, 2023

Introduction of Metis AI Platform and opened the Early Access Program for leading companies that would like to innovate with us. Read the press release and learn about the EAP

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December 14, 2022

Announced oversubscribed $27ml series A round led by innovation industries with contributions from imec.xpand, Federal Holding and Investment Company of Belgium (SFPIM). Received $6.7ml Innovation Credit from the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy in The Netherlands.

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October 24, 2022

Silicon Valley veteran Jonathan Ballon joins as independent non-executive director.

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October 11, 2022

Andreas Hansson joins as advisor.

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June 05, 2022

Luca Benini as scientific advisor.

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April 30, 2022

Torsten Hoefler joins as scientific advisor.

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January 31, 2022

Tape-out of our test-chip Thetis, proving our groundbreaking technology to the AI community.

November 30, 2021

Marian Verhelst joins as scientific advisor

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November 30, 2021

Announced $12ml seed round led by Bitfury and contributions from imec, imec.xpand and Innovation Industries.

September 14, 2021

Bitfury AI led by Fabrizio Del Maffeo merged with a team of researchers and engineers coming from IBM Zurich led by Evangelos Eleftheriou and a team of researchers and engineers coming from ETH Zurich, imec, Qualcomm and Google.

June 30, 2021

Fabrizio Del Maffeo initiated discussions with Evangelos Eleftheriou from IBM Research on potential collaboration opportunities.

July 31, 2019

Bitfury Group incubated a dedicated AI division, Bitfury AI, led by Fabrizio Del Maffeo.

August 29, 2014

 

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The AI semiconductor market for application-specific processors exceeded US$ 50 billion in 2025 and is expected to reach more than US$ 57 billion by 2030, with the AI computing board and system market estimated to be three or four times larger. In the coming years, most of the market is expected to shift to the edge. However, edge applications need a completely innovative design which considers specific computational performance, power and economical needs.

The global computer vision market size is projected to grow to $58.3B in 2030 with smart cameras comprising the largest component of that market. During that period, a decisive shift away from PC-based systems towards intelligent stand-alone systems is forecast.

Axelera AI captures this opportunity by having developed a game-changing, user-friendly, scalable technology with superior performance and efficiency at a fraction of the cost of existing players to accelerate computing vision and NLP at the edge.

Axelera AI delivers vision solutions for the Edge. Our Metis AI Platform technology will power the next generation of smart camera system enabling complex applications including image classification, object detection and tracking. Axelera's Voyager SDK is designed to allow the rapid development of computer vision applications without requiring in-depth artificial intelligence knowledge.

We're simplifying AI at the Edge - making the impossible possible - with the help of industry-recognized innovation leaders and investors and the Horizon Europe Research and innovation funding program.

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