Overview
Salaries
Products
People
Growth
Offices
Financials

Funding and backers

Total raised
$16.8M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$14.7M
Venture round · Feb 2026 · 7 mo ago
Team
1
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · -50% in a year
Backers
1
Silicon Catalyst
The money's age
Fresh money
7 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
20/100
fresh money
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 8%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Feb 2026 $14.7M — SEC Form D
Venture round Sep 2025 $2.2M — SEC Form D
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity Ainekko, Co. sec
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Tatiana DadashevaExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Roman ShaposhnikExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
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Overview

Model-to-Silicon for Physical AI. Two years to create, and everything northbound must adjust. This spawned way too many layers of human abstraction (CUDA, PyTorch, TensorRT, etc.). Worse, it forced model and application builders to accept the lowest common denominator that a chip provides.

People

Tatiana Dadasheva
Executive Officer, Director
Roman Shaposhnik
Executive Officer
Wensi Wu
Director
Douglas Smith
Director
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
San Francisco United States
HQ
50-200 est. staff

Financials

Total raised
$16.8M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
2
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2026 $14.7M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2025 $2.2M Details