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Funding and backers

Total raised
$50.2M
5 rounds on record
Latest round
$46M
Venture round · Apr 2025 · 17 mo ago
Team
6–9
French register · Dec 2023
Grants
$3M
3 grants · CORDIS
Backers
5
Ardian, ISAI
The money's age
Due for its next round
17 months since the last round · not hiring
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
May 1 Won a grant $57k · CORDIS Nov 27, 2025 On the Hacker News front page Vsora Jotunn-8 5nm European inference chip · 161 points Apr 29, 2025 Raised a round Venture round $46M Jul 1, 2023 Won a grant $2.7M · CORDIS Jan 11, 2023 Raised a round Venture round $4.2M Jan 12, 2022 Launched VSORA Introduces Tyr Chip Family Enabling L2-L5 Autonomous Driving · vsora.com Jul 1, 2019 Won a grant $222k · CORDIS Feb 9, 2018 Increased its share capital $668k · BODACC May 26, 2015 Founded per the company register
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Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
1
best: 161 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Grant May 2026 $57k — CORDIS
Venture round Apr 2025 $46M — vsora.com
Grant Jul 2023 $2.7M — CORDIS
Venture round Jan 2023 $4.2M — vsora.com
Grant Jul 2019 $222k — CORDIS
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Legal entity VSORA recherche-entreprises
Registered 26 May 2015
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Khaled MaalejPrésident de SAScompany register
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Overview

VSORA is a French fabless semiconductor company founded in 2015 in the Paris region. It designs high-performance digital signal processing and artificial intelligence accelerators for autonomous driving and generative inference. Its Jotunn and Tyr chips target very high computing throughput with low latency.

News

Press release The Manila Times 3 months ago
VSORA enters a new phase, as Ardian joins its shareholder base
VSORA strengthens its funding to launch the commercial roll-out of Jotunn8, its AI inference processor, and execute its ambitious technology roadmap. This transaction marks a decisive milestone in VSORA
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News PE Hub 3 months ago
Ardian Semiconductor invests in VSORA
VSORA is a fabless chip design company based in France.
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Blog 9 months ago
Former Altera CEO Sandra Rivera Assumes Role as VSORA's Chair of the Board
Proven CEO and C-suite leader with 30+ years of experience in semiconductors, data center, AI, networking and cloud infrastructure Increasingly responsible leadership roles over 20 years at Intel Expertise includes corporate realignment and transformation
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News vsora.com 11 months ago
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Blog 12 months ago
VSORA announces tape out of game-changing inference chip, putting Europe at the forefront of data center AI
Breakthrough chip architecture solves the memory wall bottleneck, delivering unmatched performance, efficiency and scalability for large-scale AI inference - and establishing Europe as a strategic player in next-generation AI hardware. Paris, France - Oct
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Blog 3 years ago
VSORA to Receive €12.5 Million in Funding from the European Innovation Council Accelerator Program
Funds will be used for Development, Deployment of Unparalleled Hardware Acceleration Solutions Target Markets Include AI Inference, Advanced Signal Processing, Complex Algorithmic Designs PARIS, Nov. 02, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - VSORA today announced it wi
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Khaled Maalej
Président de SAS
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Meudon France
HQ
50-200 est. staff

Financials

Total raised
$53.2M
Latest round
Grant
Funding rounds
5
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Grant 2026 $57k Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2025 $46M Details
Grant 2023 $2.7M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2023 $4.2M Details
Grant 2019 $222k Details