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Axelera AI

Hardware

European AI chip company building efficient edge AI processors.

Supplied by: TSMC

Total funding$450M

Valuation—

Employees—

Founded2021

HeadquartersEindhoven, Netherlands

StatusPrivate

Products

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• Axelera Metis AIPU Hardware Sold on its own

  Edge AI accelerator sold as PCIe cards and modules for running computer-vision models on site.

• Voyager SDK Developer tool Sold on its own

  Toolchain that compiles and deploys models onto Axelera accelerators, with a model zoo and pipeline tools.

• Axelera AI Mini PC Hardware Sold on its own

  Compact NUC-form-factor edge AI system pairing an Intel Core Ultra 5 125H with an Axelera Embedded 113m accelerator (214 TOPS, 250+ TOPS combined), 32GB DDR5, 256GB NVMe, running Ubuntu 24.04 with the Voyager SDK.

• Axelera Embedded 111c Hardware Sold on its own

  Single-board computer for multi-stream computer-vision and generative-AI edge inference: quad-core Metis AIPU paired with an ARM RK3588, 16GB LPDDR4 for the CPU plus 4GB or 16GB LPDDR4X for the accelerator.

• Europa Hardware

  Next-generation AI accelerator chip (629 TOPS, 8 second-generation AI processing cores, 16 RISC-V vector cores) extending Axelera's edge AI beyond ultra-low-power devices into enterprise-server, multi-user generative AI, robotics and automotive use cases.

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Sources

Total funding

Press release · 24 Feb 2026

Axelera AI's own press release: the $250M+ round announced 2026-02-24 "brings the total raised by the company since 2021 to $450m."

Employees

Checked — none published

Checked 2026-08-27 and no citable figure found. Four sweeps were run and all came back empty for this company: (1) its own /about, /about-us, /company, /careers, /jobs and /team pages, pattern-matched for a self-published headcount; (2) stockanalysis.com's private-company page, which footnotes each figure to its source; (3) its Forbes company profile, which states a headcount and the month it is as of; (4) a targeted web search. Everything the search returned was a LinkedIn-scraping aggregator, and those disagree with each other by wide margins and cite nothing, so they are not used here. The field is null rather than carrying the round guess it held before.

Founded

Wikipedia · 11 Sep 2026

"Axelera AI is a Netherlands-based chip company founded in 2021 as a spin-off from imec." Corrects the previously recorded 2019.

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