Axelera AI

Netherlands
Eindhoven, North Brabant, The Netherlands, 5656

Company profile

Axelera AI company profile

Axelera AI is a company that delivers purpose-built hardware and software platforms designed to accelerate artificial intelligence tasks, particularly in edge computing. The company's flagship product, the Metis™ AI Platform, integrates both hardware and software components to deliver high-performance, energy-efficient AI inference solutions. This platform has been recognized for its innovation, notably being named a CES® 2024 Innovation Awards Honoree. Incubated in 2019 by the emerging technologies leader Bitfury and joined by the leading nano-technology group imec in early 2020, Axelera AI launched as a new company in 2021. Headquartered in the AI Innovation Center of the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, Axelera AI has R&D offices in Belgium, Switzerland, and Italy. Its team of experts in AI software and hardware hail from top AI firms and Fortune 500 companies.

Business identity

Contact email
[email protected]
Operating status
Active
Company type
For Profit
Employee range
101-250 employees
Founded
2021-01-01, Year

Headquarters

Postal code
5656
Country code
NL
Continent
Europe

Capital profile

Funding and company signals

Funding stage
Late Stage Venture
Funding rounds
8
Total equity funding
$164.8M
Last funding
Series C / $34.8M / 2025-06-24
Last equity funding
Series C / $34.8M
Investors
14
Lead investors
7
Founders
3
Articles
94

Founders and investors

Founders

Bram VerhoefEvangelos EleftheriouFabrizio Del Maffeo

Lead investors

Bitfury GroupCDP Venture CapitalEIC Scaling ClubEuroHPC Joint UndertakingInnovation IndustriesInvest-NLNetherlands Enterprise Agency

Investors

CDP Venture Capitalimec.xpandInnovation IndustriesInvest-NLVerve Ventures