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Funding and backers
Total raised
$431.1M
8 rounds on record
Latest round
$205M
Venture round · Sep 2026 · 1 mo ago
Team
209
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Sep 2025
Hiring now
19
+5 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
Global Brain
The money's age
Fresh money
1 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
46/100
hiring for its size, in the news, fresh money
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 14
Raised a round Venture round $205M · Network World
Nov 25, 2024
Raised a round Venture round $112M · SEC Form D
Mar 1, 2024
Raised a round Venture round $25M · SEC Form D
Aug 11, 2023
Raised a round Venture round $19.3M · SEC Form D
Jun 26, 2023
Raised a round Venture round $5M · SEC Form D
Dec 30, 2022
Raised a round Venture round $12.5M · SEC Form D
Aug 3, 2022
Raised a round Venture round $29.5M · SEC Form D
Sep 17, 2020
Raised a round Venture round $22.8M · SEC Form D
2019
Founded
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Web presence
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Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Sep 2026 | $205M | — | Network World |
| Venture round | Nov 2024 | $112M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Mar 2024 | $25M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Aug 2023 | $19.3M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Jun 2023 | $5M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Dec 2022 | $12.5M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Aug 2022 | $29.5M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Sep 2020 | $22.8M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Cornelis Networks, Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Philip Murphy Jr.Executive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Vladimir TamarkinExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Gunnar GunnarssonExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Lisa SpelmanExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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News
Cornelis Networks Raises $205M in Chesterbrook, PA
Chesterbrook's Cornelis Networks raised $205 million, the biggest 2026 VC round in Greater Philadelphia, to expand AI data center networking tech.
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Cornelis Raises $205 Million And Launches Active Compute Fabric For Scale-Up And Scale-Out AI Networking
Cornelis has raised $205 million and unveiled Active Compute Fabric, an open networking architecture that adds programmable computing capabilities directly into scale-up and scale-out networks as the company expands deeper into infrastructure for large AI
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AI infrastructure company Cornelis raises $205M to chip away at Nvidia's dominance
The company also announced a product called Active Compute Fabric, a network technology that targets the fact that much GPU time is wasted waiting for data to arrive.
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Cornelis Networks raises $205M and scales up and out with its new Active Compute Fabric
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Cornelis Expands into Scale-Up Networking with Active Compute Fabric, $205M in Funding, and Qualcomm Collaboration at AI Infra Summit
WAYNE, Pa., September 14, 2026--Cornelis, a provider of high-performance networking solutions, today introduced Active Compute Fabric, an open architecture spanning scale-up and scale-out networking with programmable compute built into the fabric. The arc
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Cornelis Mounts Scale-Up Challenge To Nvidia, Teases Potential Qualcomm Tie-Up
Intel spin-off Cornelis Networks is expanding beyond its traditional business to challenge Nvidia in scale-up networking with the potential backing of Qualcomm and $205 million in new funding.
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Cornelis lands $205M to make AI networks compute, not just connect
Cornelis takes aim at AI bottlenecks with programmable network fabric.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Cornelis over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
52
Postings analysed
20
Stack modernity
72/100AI adopter
Languages
Python45%
SystemVerilog35%
Perl35%
Verilog25%
Frameworks & libraries
UVM20%
CUDA15%
NCCL15%
ROCm15%
Databases
PostgreSQL5%
Redis5%
Cloud & platforms
Linux35%
CUDA Toolkit15%
GitHub5%
Synopsys HAPS5%
AI & ML
LLM5%
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People
Philip Murphy Jr.
Executive Officer, Director
Vladimir Tamarkin
Executive Officer
Gunnar Gunnarsson
Executive Officer
Lisa Spelman
Executive Officer, Director
Warren Rogers
Director
Alonso Galvan
Director
Jack Eadie
Director
Charlie Wuischpard
Director
Joel Whitley
Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
27/100
Slowing
Open positions
19
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
60 days
faster than 23% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
10/16/2026
Hiring Dynamics
0%
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.
Hardware
53% ▲
Marketing
16% ▲
Backend
11% ▼
Industrial Engineering
11% ▼
AI/ML
5% ▼
Leadership
5% ▼
Actively hiring for Hardware (+3 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added HPC to stack
Aug 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Wayne
Wayne
United States
HQ
3 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 33% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering, Hardware
Jobs
In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
Python
SystemVerilog
Perl
Git
HPC
TCP/IP
Chips/EDA
UVM
Synopsys Verdi
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In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
Python
Verilog
SystemVerilog
Perl
HPC
TCP/IP
Chips/EDA
Synopsys Design Compiler
Synopsys PrimeTime
Synopsys SpyGlass
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In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
Python
SystemVerilog
Perl
CI/CD
Git
HPC
Linux
Chips/EDA
UVM
Apply
In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
Python
Perl
HPC
Chips/EDA
UVM
Formal Verification
Apply
In office • Full-Time • 15+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
Verilog
SystemVerilog
HPC
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In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
Verilog
SystemVerilog
HPC
Apply
In office • Full-Time • 15+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
Python
SystemVerilog
Perl
Git
HPC
TCP/IP
Chips/EDA
UVM
Synopsys Verdi
Apply
In office • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
Python
Perl
HPC
Chips/EDA
Synopsys ZeBu
Cadence Palladium
Synopsys HAPS
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In office • Full-Time • 6+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
C
C++
MPI
AI/ML
CUDA Toolkit
CUDA
NCCL
ROCm
DevOps
HPC
Linux
Apply
≈ $104k – $237k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Wayne
Python
Verilog
Perl
Visual Basic
HPC
Chips/EDA
Cadence Allegro
OrCAD
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In office • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
C++
CUDA Toolkit
CUDA
NCCL
ROCm
DevOps
HPC
Linux
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In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree
InfiniBand
DevOps
CI/CD
HPC
Linux
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Financials
Total raised
$431.1M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
8
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2026 | $205M | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2024 | $112M | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2024 | $25M | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2023 | $19.3M | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2023 | $5M | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2022 | $12.5M | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2022 | $29.5M | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2020 | $22.8M | Details |