Vertical Compute
AI Chips & Accelerators · Memory & Storage Chips
$83.2Mtotal raised · 2 rounds on record
7open roles
$61.6Mlatest round · Venture round · Mar 2026 · 8 mo ago
1backers · Quantonation
Overview
Vertical Compute is a semiconductor start-up developing Vertical Integrated Memory chiplets to break the memory bottleneck of AI hardware. It was founded in October 2024, reports 57 million euros in funding and hires chiplet, RTL design, verification, hardware architecture and software architecture engineers in Grenoble and Leuven. The company is headquartered in Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
Funding and backers
Total raised
$83.2M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$61.6M
Venture round · Mar 2026 · 8 mo ago
Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
8
+2 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
Quantonation
The money's age
Fresh money
8 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
30/100
hiring for its size, fresh money
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
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Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Mar 2026 | $61.6M | — | verticalcompute.com |
| Seed | Jan 2025 | $21.6M | — | design-reuse.com |
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Jobs
≈ $46k – $78k per year (Estimated) · In office · Master's Degree · Grenoble
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≈ $71k – $161k per year (Estimated) · Remote (France) · 15+ years exp · Master's Degree · Grenoble
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
26/100
Slowing
Open positions
8
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
35 days
faster than 38% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~6 hours
Today
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
44% ▼
Backend
11% ▼
DevOps
11% ▲
Legal
11% ▲
Management
11% ▼
Early Careers
11% ▲
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Vertical Compute over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
15
Postings analysed
7
Stack modernity
61/100
Languages
SystemVerilog
Verilog
C++
Python
Frameworks & libraries
Apache TVM
MLIR
UVM
Cloud & platforms
GitLab
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News
The Hidden Bottleneck Behind AI Scaling
The next phase of AI infrastructure will be defined by better data efficiency and addressing the limitations of today's memory architecture The Shift from Compute to Locality AI infrastructure has been built around a simple assumption: more compute will u
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Vertical Compute raises €57M to solve the AI memory bottleneck with new high density memory
Vertical Compute has raised €57 million to unlock the memory bottleneck in AI amid a global shortage of high density memory. Vertical Compute secured an add ...
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XAnge : Transforming the future of computing: why we invested in Vertical Compute?
In the midst of an artificial intelligence gold rush, we are excited to announce our co-lead investment in Vertical Compute's €20 million seed round. F ...
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À peine lancé, le louvaniste Vertical Compute lève 20 millions d'euros pour révolutionner l'IA
Vertical Compute s'attaque à la mémorisation des données. Ses travaux pourraient bouleverser l'utilisation de l'IA. La start-up vient de lever 20 millions d'euros. Read the full article
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Belgium's Vertical Compute raises €20m seed to tackle AI chips' memory bottleneck
Launched by Google alumni Sylvain Dubois and imec researcher Sebastien Couet, the startup says it is going after companies like Samsung, Micron and Hynix. V ...
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Vertical Compute: €20 Million (Seed) Secured To Build Integrated Memory And Computing Technology
Vertical Compute, a company founded by CEO Sylvain Dubois (ex-Google) and CTO Sebastien Couet (ex-imec), announced that it successfully closed a seed investment round of €20 million. The funding round was led by imec.xpand and supported by a strong invest
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Vertical Compute, a new imec spin-off, raises €20 million to Revolutionize the Future of AI Computing
New Deep-tech Semiconductor Startup Tackling AI's Compute Memory Bottleneck. Unlocking the Future of AI with Verticality. Vertical Compute's technology will have a transformative impact, enabling next-generation applications with unparalleled efficiency a
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Vertical Compute, a new imec spin-off, raises €20 million to Revolutionize the Future of AI Computing
Design And Reuse - Catalog of IP Cores and Silicon on Chip solutions for IoT, Automotive, Security, RISC-V, AI, ... and Asic Design Platforms and Resources
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
2
Countries
2
Busiest office
Grenoble
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Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgium
HQ
Grenoble
France
Remote hub
5 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 60% engineering 80% remote 50-200 est. staff
hires for Backend, DevOps, Hardware
Leuven
Belgium
Regional office
3 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 67% engineering 67% remote 50-200 est. staff
hires for Hardware, Legal