Start-ups

Mojo Vision, a start-up based in Cupertino, California, announced a $17.5 million strategic investment from Future Ventures to accelerate commercialization of its micro-LED platform for next-generation optical I/O in AI...

Upscale AI, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California, announced plans to deliver open, scale-out Ethernet systems built on NVIDIA Spectrum-X switch silicon and an AI-optimized SONiC software stack, targeting...

Amber Semiconductor, a start-up based in Dublin, California, announced a $30 million Series C funding round to accelerate commercialization of its vertical power delivery technology designed for next-generation AI servers...

Eridu, a Saratoga, California–based startup focused on next-generation AI networking infrastructure, emerged from stealth with more than $200 million in funding to develop a new class of high-performance switching architecture...

Nexthop AI announced a $500 million Series B funding round that values the Santa Clara-based company at $4.2 billion, alongside the launch of new AI data center switching platforms and...

Ayar Labs secured $500 million in Series E funding to accelerate high-volume production of its co-packaged optics (CPO) technology aimed at AI scale-up infrastructure. The round was led by Neuberger...

Aalyria secured $100 million in Series B funding to expand its space-based communications and network orchestration platforms, pushing its valuation to $1.3 billion. The round was led by Battery Ventures...

DG Matrix has raised $60 million in an oversubscribed Series A round to scale its solid-state transformer platform for AI data centers and electrification projects. The funding, led by Engine...

Efficient Computer centers its strategy on the Electron E1 processor, built on what it calls the Efficient Fabric architecture. The company describes the design as a spatial dataflow architecture that...

Selector raised $32 million in new funding, doubling its valuation to $375 million as enterprise demand for AI-driven observability accelerates. AVP led the round with participation from Ansa Capital, Two...

ECL introduced its FlexGrid platform, a power-agnostic architecture designed to deploy high-density AI data centers in locations with limited grid capacity. The company positions FlexGrid as a way to scale inferencing...

Alva Energy launched with $33 million in Series A funding to expand electrical output from the existing U.S. nuclear reactor fleet by up to 10 GWe. The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company...

Upscale AI raised $200 million in Series A funding to advance a full-stack AI networking platform designed for large-scale, tightly synchronized AI clusters. The round was led by Tiger Global, Premji Invest, and Xora...