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| 27.03.2026 | Normal Computing Secures $50M to Reshape AI Chips: Energy Efficiency at Core | Normal Computing raised $50M, totaling $85M. Samsung Catalyst led the round. The company confronts AI's escalating energy crisis. It uses its Normal EDA platform to revolutionize semiconductor design, compressing development times. Normal C... |
| 26.03.2026 | Normal Computing: $50 Million Raised For AI-Native Semiconductor Design And Energy-Efficient Hardware | Normal Computing announced it has raised $50 million in strategic funding led by Samsung Catalyst Fund, bringing its total funding to more than $85 million. The round also included participation from Galvanize, Brevan Howard Macro Venture F... |
| 25.03.2026 | Normal Computing Raises $50M in Funding | Normal Computing, a NYC-based company which specializes in probabilistic AI and thermodynamic computing, raised $50M in funding.
The round was led by Samsung Catalyst Fund with participation from Galvanize, Brevan Howard Macro Venture Fund,... |
| 25.03.2026 | Normal Computing raises $50M to tackle the soaring energy demands of AI chips
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Cookies | Normal Computing Corp., a startup that’s trying to reinvent the fundamental physics of artificial intelligence, said today it has raised $50 million in a new funding round led by Samsung Catalyst.
Today’s Series B round also saw participati... |
| 02.03.2026 | CEE Startup & Tech Weekly: Largest Pre-Seed Round in CEE | Company:
The Recursive’s weekly roundup aims to cover key tech developments across Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the growing impact of CEE-born founders on the global stage. Take a look at the latest news in funding, startup milest... |
| 25.02.2026 | Axelera AI Secures $250M+ to Lead Global Edge AI Semiconductor Race | Axelera AI secured over $250 million, boosting its total funding past $450 million. This propels global expansion for its energy-efficient edge AI semiconductors. The firm tackles AI's immense power demands and privacy needs by processing d... |
| 24.02.2026 | Edge AI chip startup Axelera AI raises $250M+ funding round
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Cookies | Axelera AI BV, a Dutch supplier of artificial intelligence chips for edge devices, today announced that it has raised more than $250 million in funding.
Amsterdam-based venture capital firm Innovation Industries led the investment. It was j... |
| 24.02.2026 | Axelera AI Raises More Than $250M in Funding | Axelera AI, an Eindhoven, The Netherlands-based AI acceleration hardware company, raised over $250m in funding.
The round was led by Innovation Industries, with participation from BlackRock and SiteGround Capital as new investors, as well a... |
| 24.02.2026 | Dutch AI inference chipmaker Axelera AI raises $250M | A Dutch chipmaker which designs and manufactures chips for AI inference use has raised more than $250m, with backing from new investor BlackRock.
Innovation Industries, the European VC fund, is the lead investor in the round in Axelera AI.
... |
| 24.02.2026 | Axelera AI: Over $250 Million Raised For Global Expansion Of AI Semiconductor Platform | Axelera AI, a European AI semiconductor company focused on edge and data center acceleration, announced it has secured more than $250 million in new funding to accelerate global commercial growth. The round was led by funds managed by Innov... |
| 28.01.2026 | Eliyan Raises $50M in Funding | Eliyan Corporation, a Santa Clara, CA-based company which specializes in connectivity products and technology for AI and computing systems, raised $50M in strategic funding.
Backers included Samsung Catalyst Fund, Intel Capital and players ... |
| 15.08.2025 | AI's Optical Leap: Celestial AI Funds Photonic Fabric Development | Celestial AI secured $255M in Series C1 funding. Total investment now reaches $520M. VentureTech Alliance and Samsung Catalyst Fund joined new investors. This capital accelerates Photonic Fabric commercial deployment. Photonic Fabric is a r... |
| 15.08.2025 | Celestial AI: Final Closing Of $255 Million Series C1 Funding | Celestial AI, a leader in optical interconnect technology addressing the scalability demands of modern AI infrastructure, announced the final close of its $255 million Series C1 funding round, which included strategic investors VentureTech ... |
| 13.08.2025 | Celestial AI Closes $255M Series C1 | Celestial AI, a Santa Clara, CA-based optical interconnect technology company, closed its $255M Series C1 funding.
The round added VentureTech Alliance and Samsung Catalyst Fund as investors.
The company intends to use the funds to accelera... |
| 07.08.2025 | Teramount: $50 Million Raised For AI Infrastructure Optical Connectivity | Teramount, a leader in fiber-to-chip interconnect solutions for AI and data centers, has secured $50 million in funding led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT). Other participants include existing investor Grove Ventures and new partners ... |
| 30.07.2025 | Teramount Secures $50M to Power AI's Optical Future | Teramount, an Israeli innovator, raised $50 million in a pivotal funding round. Koch Disruptive Technologies led the investment. AMD Ventures, Hitachi Ventures, Samsung Catalyst Fund, Wistron, and existing investor Grove Ventures joined. Th... |
| 30.07.2025 | Teramount Raises $50M to Tackle AI's Deepest Bottleneck: Optical Connectivity at Scale With backing from AMD, Samsung Catalyst, Hitachi Ventures, and Koch Disruptive Technologies, Israeli startup Tera... | As AI models grow larger, faster, and more power-hungry, a new bottleneck has emerged - and it's not inside the chip. It's between them. Teramount, an Israeli startup building infrastructure to solve one of AI's least visible but most urgen... |
| 29.07.2025 | Teramount Raises $50M to Address Growing Demand for AI Infrastructure Optical Connectivity | Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT) leads Series A to accelerate Teramount’s transition to high-volume production, with the participation of AMD Ventures, Hitachi Ventures, Samsung Catalyst Fund, Wistron, Grove Ventures and others.
Teramount... |
| 29.07.2025 | Teramount Raises $50M in Funding | Teramount, a Jerusalem, Israel-based company which specializes in scalable fiber-to-chip interconnect solutions for AI, data centers and advanced computing, raised $50M in funding.
The round was led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT). Ex... |
| 29.07.2025 | Two physicists are the brains of an Arab-Jewish startup connecting optics to chips | Two Hebrew University PhD graduates — one Muslim, the other Jewish – studied, worked together, and co-founded a nanotechnology startup to connect optical fibers to silicon photonics chips, facilitating next-generation data transfer at the s... |
| 16.04.2025 | Auradine Raises $153M in Series C Financing | Auradine, Inc., a Santa Clara, CA-based provider of energy-efficient solutions for blockchain and AI infrastructure, raised an additional $153m in connection with its Series C funding round.
The round was led by StepStone Group and included... |
| 16.04.2025 | Auradine raises $153M to develop bitcoin mining and AI networking hardware
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One click below supports our mission to provid... | Data center hardware startup Auradine Inc. today disclosed that it has raised $153 million in a Series C funding round.
The investment was led by StepStone Group with participation from Samsung Catalyst Fund, Qualcomm Ventures and several o... |
| 25.09.2024 | The Encryption Arms Race: Safeguarding AI Models in a Digital Battlefield | In the world of artificial intelligence, large language models (LLMs) are the titans of the digital age. They are the engines driving innovation, creativity, and automation. Yet, as their power grows, so do the threats surrounding them. The... |
| 24.09.2024 | Шифруй то, шифруй это, или LLM под замком | Здравствуйте, уважаемые читатели Хабра. Чем больше я погружаюсь в LLM, тем больше укрепляюсь во мнении, что сейчас они (LLM) заняли если не самое важное, то уж точно одно из очень значимых мест во всём пантеоне моделей машинного обучения. П... |
| 29.06.2024 | Axelera AI Raises $68 Million In Series B To Advance Hardware Acceleration Technology | Axelera AI, a leading provider of purpose-built AI hardware acceleration technology for generative AI and computer vision inference, announced a successful closing of an oversubscribed $68 million Series B funding round, bringing the total ... |
| 27.06.2024 | Axelera raises $68M to rival Nvidia with edge AI chips | Don’t miss OpenAI, Chevron, Nvidia, Kaiser Permanente, and Capital One leaders only at VentureBeat Transform 2024. Gain essential insights about GenAI and expand your network at this exclusive three day event. Learn More
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| 29.02.2024 | Don’t ignore Asia tech | A lot can change in 12 years. When I joined TechCrunch in 2012, I was the only writer it had based out of Asia. For several years, it often felt like I was writing to correct misperceptions I saw in my articles’ comments or on Twitter.
Even... |
| 10.02.2022 | Ada Health says, “call it” to the Series B round, now at $120 million | Berlin-based digital healthcare provider Ada has added another $30 million in an extension to its Series B round. The funding will be used to expand its product offering as well as make further headway into the US market. Back in May of las... |
| 28.07.2021 | Цифровая терапия — фокус на результат, а не на технологию: инвестиции, тренды, новые вызовы развития. Часть 2 | Цифровая терапия — фокус на результат, а не на технологию: инвестиции, тренды, новые вызовы развития. Часть 2 |
| 28.07.2021 | Digital therapy: focus on results, not technology: investments, trends, new development challenges. Part 2 | Digital therapy: focus on results, not technology: investments, trends, new development challenges. Part 2 |
| 27.05.2021 | Berlin’s Ada Health raises $90 million in Series B round led by Leaps by Bayer, reveals “longer-term strategic partnership” | Berlin-based digital healthcare provider Ada has raised $90 million in a Series B round led by the investment arm of pharmaceutical giant Bayer, Leaps by Bayer. Samsung Catalyst Fund, Vitruvian Partners, Inteligo Bank, F4 and Mutschler Vent... |
| 16.01.2021 | After a record year for Israeli startups, 16 investors tell us what’s next | Israel’s startup ecosystem raised record amounts of funding and produced 19 IPOs in 2020, despite the pandemic. Now tech companies across industries are poised for an even better year, according to more than a dozen investors we talked to i... |
| 16.12.2020 | German Bionic closes a $20M Series A round led by Samsung Catalyst Fund | German Bionic closes a $20M Series A round led by Samsung Catalyst Fund
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| 14.12.2020 | German Bionic raises $20 million from Samsung Catalyst Fund and others for its smart exoskeletons | Augsburg, Germany-based German Bionic, a manufacturer of smart robotic exoskeletons and related software solutions, today announced that it has closed $20 million in Series A financing.
The funding round was led by Samsung Catalyst Fund and... |
| 13.07.2020 | Telegenomics provider Genome Medical raises $14M, plus Samsung Catalyst partnership
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Vital Precision for Cost Reduction, QA, and Regulatory Compliance | Since expanding its DNA-focused telehealth work into guiding patients and institutions from genetic testing through subsequent specialty care, Genome Medical has raised $14 million to help boost its clinic-focused operations.
Sponsored by A... |
| 13.07.2020 | Telegenomics provider Genome Medical raises $14M, plus Samsung Catalyst partnership | Since expanding its DNA-focused telehealth work into guiding patients and institutions from genetic testing through subsequent specialty care, Genome Medical has raised $14 million to help boost its clinic-focused operations.
The new funds ... |
| 12.11.2019 | SK Capital Partners Closes SKCP Catalyst Fund I, at $400M | SK Capital Partners, LP, a New York-based investment firm focused on the specialty materials, chemicals and pharmaceuticals sectors, closed the SKCP Catalyst Fund I, with limited partner capital commitments of $400m.
Fundraising for the fun... |
| 22.10.2019 | IonQ Lands $55M Financing Led by Samsung Catalyst Fund and Mubadala Capital | COLLEGE PARK, Md., Oct. 22, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- IonQ, the leader in universal quantum computing, today announced it has secured $55 million in a funding round led by the Samsung Catalyst Fund and Mubadala Capital. This round of funding... |
| 16.08.2019 | Samsung și alți investitori bagă 11 milioane de dolari într-un startup IT ungar care lucrează cu tehnologie 5G | Samsung Catalyst Fund, fondul de investiții al gigantului sud-coreean de tehnologie, împreună cu alți investitori, a acordat o rundă de finanțare de 11 milioane de dolari unui startup IT ungar din domeniul vehiculelor conectate și siguranțe... |
| 15.08.2019 | Hungarian Commsignia just received a $11 million investment to make roads more safe and traffic more efficient | Commsignia, a market leader in V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) solutions, announced the closing of a $11 million fundraising round led by Karma Ventures (Estonia) and the Samsung Catalyst Fund (US), together with Partech (France), Inventure (Fi... |
| 11.01.2018 | Budapest-based AImotive just raised $38 million in Series C funding | AImotive, formerly called AdasWorks, the full-stack autonomous vehicle technology company announced the closing of its $38 million Series C funding round, led by B Capital Group and Prime Ventures, with participation from Cisco Investments,... |
| 01.11.2017 | Samsung Catalyst, SoftBank Korea invest $8m in Israeli startup Innoviz | Premium
Early stage venture capital arms of Samsung and SoftBank have joined the Series B funding round of Israeli startup Innoviz Technologies, which provides light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensing solutions for the automobile industr... |
| 31.10.2017 | Samsung and SoftBank invest in Israeli lidar startup Innoviz Technologies | Innoviz Technologies, a startup that’s building solid-state lidar technology for autonomous cars, has extended its previously announced series B funding round to $73 million.
The Israeli startup announced a $65 million funding round just la... |
| 31.10.2017 | Samsung and SoftBank invest in Israeli lidar startup Innoviz Technologies | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Innoviz Technologies, a startup that’s building solid-state lidar technology for autonomous cars, has extended its previously announced... |
| 17.08.2017 | A wearables startup that’s made hydration a priority | Dr. Dustin Freckleton is the CEO of LVL Technologies and founded the business when it was known as BSX Athletics in 2012. He said the sensor platform is the first to measure hydration status. His motivation was for developing a hydration as... |
| 05.02.2017 | Samsung Catalyst Fund joins $75m round of US-based Soundhound | Premium
SoundHound Inc has closed $75 million in new funding from a round that saw participation from a strategic group of investors including NVIDIA GPU Ventures, Samsung Catalyst Fund, a venture fund backed by Samsung Electronics, Nomura ... |
| 17.11.2015 | Sentiance raises $5.2 million in Series B financing round led by Samsung Catalyst Fund | The Belgian startup Sentiance has just announced that it has closed $5.2 million in its most recent round of funding. The new investment enables Sentiance to enhance the company’s focus on the Internet of Things. Sentiance provides Ambient ... |
| - | Un startup ungar a strâns 75 milioane dolari pentru tehnologii de conducere automată a mașinilor | AImotive, un startup ungar care dezvoltă tehnologii de conducere automatizată a mașinilor, a obținut finanțări de capital de risc de 75 de milioane de dolari în total.
Luni, startup-ul maghiar a primit cea mai recentă rundă de finanțare, de... |
| - | Berlin’s Ada Health raises $90 million in Series B round led by Leaps by Bayer, reveals “longer-term strategic partnership” | Berlin-based digital healthcare provider Ada has raised $90 million in a Series B round led by the investment arm of pharmaceutical giant Bayer, Leaps by Bayer. Samsung Catalyst Fund, Vitruvian Partners, Inteligo Bank, F4 and Mutschler Vent... |
| - | A wearables startup that’s made hydration a priority | Hydration tracking wearable from LVL Technologies
A consumer wearables startup in Austin has a mission: it wants to prevent dehydration not just for athletes trying to improve the effectiveness of their fitness regimen but also for people a... |
| - | Ada Health says, “call it” to the Series B round, now at $120 million | Berlin-based digital healthcare provider Ada has added another $30 million in an extension to its Series B round. The funding will be used to expand its product offering as well as make further headway into the US market. Back in May of las... |