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Funding and backers

Total raised
$157M
12 rounds on record
Latest round
$68M
Series B · Jun 2024 · 2 yr ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
7
+4 posted in 30 days
Grants
$39.7M
8 grants · CORDIS
Backers
2
CDP Venture Capital, Innovation Industries
The money's age
Long since its last round
27 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
48/100
hiring for its size, a new city, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Sep 15 Launched Axelera AI Launches Europa: Delivers Physical and Enterprise AI Through Growing Partner Ecosystem Including Dell and Supermicro · axelera.ai May 1 Won a grant $182k · CORDIS Nov 1, 2025 Won a grant $2.7M · CORDIS Jul 1, 2025 Won a grant $650k · CORDIS Mar 1, 2025 Won a grant $13.3M · CORDIS Mar 1, 2025 Won a grant $14.6M · CORDIS Mar 1, 2025 Won a grant $5.4M · CORDIS Jun 27, 2024 Raised a round Series B $68M Mar 1, 2024 Won a grant $2.7M · CORDIS Jun 7, 2023 Raised a round Series A $50M · Pulse 2.0 Nov 1, 2022 Won a grant $271k · CORDIS Oct 24, 2022 Raised a round Series A $27M Sep 17, 2021 Raised a round Venture round $12M 2021 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.46%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
2
best: 2 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Grant May 2026 $182k — CORDIS
Grant Nov 2025 $2.7M — CORDIS
Grant Jul 2025 $650k — CORDIS
Grant Mar 2025 $5.4M — CORDIS
Grant Mar 2025 $14.6M — CORDIS
Grant Mar 2025 $13.3M — CORDIS
Series B Jun 2024 $68M — businesswire.com
Grant Mar 2024 $2.7M — CORDIS
Series A Jun 2023 $50M — Pulse 2.0
Grant Nov 2022 $271k — CORDIS
Series A Oct 2022 $27M — businesswire.com
Venture round Sep 2021 $12M — venturebeat.com
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Overview

Bring data insights to the edge, increasing the performance of your solutions with a cost-effective and efficient inference chip. Axelera’s AI processing unit is designed to seamlessly integrate into your innovations so you can focus on your customer!

News

News Network World 22 days ago
Axelera Europa targets enterprise data centers with far more efficient AI
Axelera's betting enterprises don't need Google-scale power bills to run serious AI-just a smarter chip that fits the servers they already own.
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News NewsBytes 22 days ago
Dell shares rise after Axelera AI unveils Europa inference processor
Shares of Dell Technologies rose 5.8% after Axelera AI announced its Europa inference processor, which is expected to be integrated into future Dell systems.
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News YahooFinance 22 days ago
Axelera AI Launches Europa: Delivers Physical and Enterprise AI Through Growing Partner Ecosystem Including Dell and Supermicro
EINDHOVEN, Netherlands, September 15, 2026--Axelera AI, the European leader in AI acceleration hardware, announced the launch of the Europa architecture with a growing ecosystem of OEM, ODM and technology partners, including validated systems with Dell an
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News axelera.ai 22 days ago
Axelera AI Launches Europa: Delivers Physical and Enterprise AI Through Growing Partner Ecosystem Including Dell and Supermicro
Axelera AI announced the launch of the Europa architecture with a growing ecosystem of OEM, ODM and technology partners, including validated systems with Dell and Supermicro.
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News YahooFinance 7 months ago
DeGirum Announces Partnership with Axelera AI
Axelera AI and DeGirum, leaders in Edge AI, have partnered to introduce solutions compatible with an array of Edge AI applications.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Axelera over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
50
Postings analysed
16
Stack modernity
76/100AI adopter
Languages
Python44%
C++25%
Verilog13%
Bash6%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch38%
PyTorch C++25%
OpenCL19%
TensorFlow19%
Cloud & platforms
Linux44%
CUDA Toolkit13%
GitHub13%
Debian13%
AI & ML
LLM19%
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
88/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
7
7 opened / 8 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
84 days
faster than 18% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~2 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
AI/ML
20% ▲
Industrial Engineering
20% ▲
Backend
10% ▲
Leadership
10% ▼
Product
10% ▲
Finance
10% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Transfer Learning to stack Sep 2026
Added OpenVINO to stack Sep 2026
Added ONNX Runtime to stack Sep 2026
Added MLIR to stack Sep 2026
Added Agile to stack Sep 2026
Added Slack to stack Sep 2026
Added Home Assistant to stack Sep 2026
Added GitHub to stack Sep 2026
Added Discord to stack Sep 2026
Added C to stack Sep 2026
Added Sensor Fusion to stack Sep 2026
Added Embedded C to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
8
Hiring now
7
Countries
6
Busiest office
Eindhoven
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Eindhoven Netherlands
HQ
Axelera AI Wins Deloitte's Rising Star Award
4 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 25% engineering 50% remote 10-50 est. staff
hires for AI/ML, Leadership, Product
HTC5, High Tech Campus, 5656 AE Eindhoven
seen since Feb 2026 company site, job postings
Amsterdam Netherlands
2 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 50% remote 10-50 est. staff
hires for Product, Finance
seen since Feb 2026 job postings
Florence Italy
2 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 50% remote 10-50 est. staff
hires for Product, Early Careers
seen since Feb 2026 job postings
Paris France
1 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 100% remote 10-50 est. staff
hires for Product
seen since Feb 2026 job postings
Milan Italy
1 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 100% remote 10-50 est. staff
hires for Product
seen since Feb 2026
Athens Greece
1 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 100% remote 10-50 est. staff
hires for Product
seen since Feb 2026
Leuven Belgium
1 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 100% remote 10-50 est. staff
hires for Product
seen since Feb 2026
Freedom United States
Regional office
Freedom to innovate
HTC5, High Tech Campus, 5656 AE Eindhoven
company site
Earlier presence
Bristol, United Kingdom 1 open roles · last posting May 2026
Porto, Portugal 1 open roles · last posting Sep 2026
Timișoara, Romania 1 open roles · last posting Sep 2026

Jobs

≈ $88k – $232k per year (Estimated) • Remote (EU, Europe) • Full-Time • Luxembourg City • Paris • Florence • Milan • Leuven
LLM
Edge AI
DevOps
GitHub
Management
Slack
Discord
Home Assistant
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≈ $59k – $176k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Internship • Bachelor's Degree • Eindhoven
Python
C++
Bash
PyTorch C++
AI/ML
Quantization
Computer Vision
AI Agents
ONNX
TensorRT
PyTorch
LLM
DevOps
Git
Docker
Linux
Robotics
GStreamer
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≈ $138k – $304k per year (Estimated) • Remote (EU, Europe, United States, Taiwan) • Full-Time • 15+ years exp • Eindhoven
Platform Engineering
HPC
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Financials

Total raised
$196.7M
Latest round
Grant
Funding rounds
12
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Grant 2026 $182k Details
Grant 2025 $2.7M Details
Grant 2025 $650k Details
Grant 2025 $5.4M Details
Grant 2025 $14.6M Details
Grant 2025 $13.3M Details
Series B 2024 $68M Details
Grant 2024 $2.7M Details
Series A 2023 $50M Details
Grant 2022 $271k Details
Series A 2022 $27M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2021 $12M Details