Axelera AI
About
About Axelera AI
Axelera AI's Metis processor uses four in-memory-compute cores to run INT8 neural-network inference at the edge, reducing movement between model weights and arithmetic units. A single AIPU provides up to 214 TOPS in M.2, PCIe and compute-board formats, with the Voyager SDK compiling and deploying vision pipelines through YAML configurations.
Four-chip PCIe cards scale to 856 TOPS with 16 or 64 GB of memory and typical consumption of 30 to 58 watts. Secure boot and a hardware root of trust support embedded deployment, while Linux, Windows and x86 or Arm hosts cover robots, cameras, industrial PCs and edge servers. The newer Europa architecture raises single-chip inference to 629 TOPS and extends the same software stack toward larger language and multimodal models.
Funding
- 2026-02-24 - Latest funding round - >$250M - Axelera AI secures more than $250M for commercial and manufacturing scale-up
Axelera AI closed a funding round of more than $250 million to expand manufacturing, customer support and its edge-AI software ecosystem. - source: axelera.ai
- 2024-06-27 - Series B - $68M - Axelera AI raises USD 68M Series B for edge AI chips
Axelera AI raised USD 68 million in Series B funding to accelerate next-generation AI acceleration hardware. - source: axelera.ai
Investors
- Bitfury - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-24
- BlackRock - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-24
- CDP Venture Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-24
- European Innovation Council Fund - Participant - Government / Public - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-24
- Innovation Industries - Lead - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-24
- Invest-NL - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-24
- Samsung Catalyst Fund - Participant - Corporate / CVC - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2026-02-24
- SFPIM - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-24
- SiteGround Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-24
- Verve Investments - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-24
Team
- Fabrizio Del Maffeo - Co-Founder and CEO
- Evangelos Eleftheriou - Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Timeline
Events
- 2026-02-24 - Funding - Axelera AI secures more than $250M for commercial and manufacturing scale-up
Innovation Industries led the round, with BlackRock and SiteGround Capital among the new participants. Existing participants included Bitfury, CDP Venture Capital, the European Innovation Council Fund, SFPIM, Invest-NL, Samsung Catalyst Fund and Verve Investments. The capital supports manufacturing scale, customer success, the Partner Accelerator Network and continued development of Axelera's software tools and SDK.
Source - 2025-10-21 - Product Launch - Axelera AI launches Europa AIPU for edge AI inference
Introduces Europa AI processor for computer vision and generative AI workloads Designed for edge deployment with high efficiency and low power consumption Targets industrial systems, robotics, and real-time AI applications
Source - 2024-06-27 - Funding - Axelera AI raises USD 68M Series B for edge AI chips
The round supported edge AI compute for inference workloads. Axelera AI targeted commercially deployable AI acceleration for embedded and industrial systems. The capital supports robot sensing, actuation, compute or communications systems as Axelera AI moves toward broader commercial use.
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Context
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Context tags
- Edge AI accelerator supplier - Peer Group
- On-device AI inference - Workflow
- Edge AI inference - Workflow
- AI accelerator component supplier - Stack Layer
- Electronics robotics supply chain - Customer Environment