Netpreme

Memory & Storage Chips · Servers & Data Center Hardware
$11.9Mtotal raised · 2 rounds on record
6open roles
$11.7Mlatest round · Venture round · Jun 2025 · 16 mo ago
3backers · Boldstart Ventures, E14 Fund

Overview

Netpreme is a semiconductor start-up that builds the X-Mem Networked Memory Tier, a memory system co-designed from silicon to software. Its vacancies include ASIC design and verification engineers, performance modeling engineers, a signal and power integrity director and an IT lead, mostly in Santa Clara and Boston. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

Key facts

As of Nov 13, 2026, Alion lists 6 open roles at Netpreme. Netpreme is headquartered in Cambridge, United States. It was founded in 2024. It has raised $11.9M in 2 funding rounds. The latest round is Venture - Series Unknown of $11.7M, announced in 2025.

Headquarters
Cambridge, United StatesAlion company profile, updated Nov 13, 2026
Founded
2024Alion company profile, updated Nov 13, 2026
Employees
50+Alion company profile, an estimated range
Total raised
$11.9MSum of 2 equity rounds Alion knows
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown · $11.7M · Jun 30, 2025SEC Form D filing · sec.gov
Visa sponsorship, United States
1 · H-1B filings in 12 monthsUS Department of Labor · latest filing Sep 29, 2026
Technologies in its job postings
30Named in its job postings
Official records

Funding and backers

Total raised
$11.9M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$11.7M
Venture round · Jun 2025 · 16 mo ago
Team
5
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025
Hiring now
6
open roles
Backers
3
Boldstart Ventures, E14 Fund
The money's age
Due for its next round
16 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jun 30, 2025 Raised a round Venture round $11.7M · SEC Form D Oct 7, 2024 Raised a round Convertible Note $200k · SEC Form D 2024 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Jun 2025 $11.7M — SEC Form D
Convertible Note Oct 2024 $200k — SEC Form D
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity Netpreme Corp SEC Form D
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Zhizhen ZhongExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Nikita LazarevExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Jobs

≈ $176k – $331k per year (Estimated) · Equity · In office · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Master's Degree · Santa Clara
Python
C++
MATLAB
Claude
ChatGPT
Chips/EDA
Synopsys HSPICE
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≈ $167k – $332k per year (Estimated) · Equity · In office · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Santa Clara
Claude
ChatGPT
CUDA
NVLink
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≈ $226k – $414k per year (Estimated) · Equity · In office · Full-Time · Bachelor's Degree · Santa Clara
Claude
ChatGPT
LLM
Chips/EDA
UVM
Apply
≈ $89k – $180k per year (Estimated) · Equity · In office · Full-Time · 2+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Santa Clara
Python
Claude
ChatGPT
vLLM
Quantization
Multimodal AI
Function Calling
SGLang
TensorRT
TensorRT-LLM
LLM
RAG
TPOT
Speculative Decoding
KV Cache
DevOps
Ansible
Helm
Kubernetes
Linux
Apply
≈ $182k – $361k per year (Estimated) · Equity · In office · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Santa Clara
Claude
ChatGPT
LLM
Apply
≈ $181k – $361k per year (Estimated) · Equity · In office · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Santa Clara · Boston
Verilog
SystemVerilog
Claude
ChatGPT
LLM
Apply

Visa sponsorship

#5,755 of 8,998 sponsors
1
H-1B filings in 12 months
$223k
Median offered salary
6
Open roles in United States
6
Adverts offering sponsorship in 24 months
Who they sponsor
Computer and information research scientists
1
The salary offered for each occupationVisa pass · 90 credits
In the register as Netpreme (+1 more)
Other sponsors in the same field
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US Department of Labor · latest filing Sep 29, 2026 · Visa details by country

Growth

Hiring Momentum
58/100
Growing
Open positions
6
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
23 days
faster than 55% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~6 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.
DevOps
40% ▼
AI/ML
20% ▼
Hardware
20% ▼
Leadership
20% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added Synopsys HSPICE to stack Sep 2026
Added MATLAB to stack Sep 2026
Added C++ to stack Sep 2026
Added NVLink to stack Sep 2026
Added CUDA to stack Sep 2026
Added VPN to stack Sep 2026
Added Unix to stack Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack Sep 2026

Financials

Total raised
$11.9M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
2
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2025 $11.7M Details
Convertible Note 2024 $200k Details

People

Zhizhen Zhong
Executive Officer, Director
Nikita Lazarev
Executive Officer, Director
Yuqin Duan
Director
Shenggao Li
Director
Ed Sim
Director
Calvin Chin
Director
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Netpreme over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
30
Postings analysed
7
Stack modernity
80/100AI adopter
Languages
Python
SystemVerilog
Verilog
Bash
Frameworks & libraries
SGLang
TPOT
TensorRT-LLM
UVM
Cloud & platforms
Linux
Kubernetes
Unix
vLLM
AI & ML
ChatGPT
Claude
LLM
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Full Netpreme tech stack 30 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Connections

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Found in company registers, site code, DNS and hiring. Each connection shows how sure we are and the evidence, with its source and date.
Shared investors3
24 portfolio companies: Superhuman, CrewAI, Super Pilot and 21 more
SAVVia a fund
47 portfolio companies: Fleak, Arva AI, throxy and 44 more
E14 FundVia a fund
198 portfolio companies: Oxus, Sovara Labs, Qinvicta and 195 more

News

News lmsys.org 4 months ago
Accelerating SGLang HiCache with Netpreme X-Mem MPU
Netpreme X-Mem Memory Processing Unit (MPU) makes SGLang HiCache faster and more scalable by augmenting the slower Host DRAM offload tier with a purpose-built high-bandwidth KV memory tier.- Pr...
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
2
Countries
1
Busiest office
Santa Clara
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Cambridge United States
HQ
Santa Clara United States
Engineering / R&D
6 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 83% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for AI/ML, DevOps, Hardware
seen since Dec 2025 job postings
Boston United States
1 open roles 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for AI/ML
seen since Dec 2025 job postings

How to cite this page

Alion, "Netpreme: key facts", as of Nov 13, 2026. https://alion.io/company/netpreme

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