Akeana (Venture)
Funding Details
Awarder
SemiNews
Date Award
October 17, 2024
Vertical
Processors and Network
Funding Amount
$100,000,000
Company Info
Founding Year
2021
Location
Santa Clara, CA, US
Coinvestors
Kleiner Perkins, Mayfield, Fidelity Ventures, and others
Company Description

Akeana offers customizable RISC-V-based IP. Its portfolio includes 32-bit RISC-V cores for applications from embedded microcontrollers to edge gateways; 64-bit RISC-V cores and an MMU to support rich operating systems; 64-bit RISC-V cores with higher single-thread performance optimized for next-gen devices, laptops, data centers, and cloud infrastructure; and a computation engine designed to offload Matrix Multiply operations for AI acceleration.

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