EdgeCortix which specializes in energy-efficient Artificial Intelligence (AI) processing at the edge, has announced that TDK Corporation’s corporate venture-capital subsidiary, TDK Ventures, is investing in its Series B fundraising round.
The next-gen high-performance SAKURA-X chiplet platform will be produced more quickly due to the TDK Ventures investment, which will also expedite the mass-production of EdgeCortix’s highly successful SAKURA-II AI co-processors, which have won design-wins in a number of industries.
The SAKURA-II Edge AI Platform is the embodiment of EdgeCortix’s patented, software-first, hardware-software co-design framework. In order to provide effective and flexible AI processing across diverse edge environments, the platform combines reconfigurable silicon with a specialized compiler and runtime stack.
In addition to powering EdgeCortix’s own hardware, this innovative method serves as a “runtime of runtimes” for external processors, providing a sophisticated means of bringing the disparate and diverse edge hardware landscape together.
The SAKURA-II platform, which is based on Dynamic Neural Accelerator® (DNA) technology, provides high parallelism and run-time reconfigurability to effectively handle a wide variety of model types, including CNNs and Transformers.
Robotics, Industrial & Manufacturing, Aerospace, Defense, Space, Security, and Telecommunications are among the industries served by the company’s AI accelerator modules and cards, which provide up to 240 TOPS of compute performance for energy-efficient Generative AI processing of demanding edge applications.
EdgeCortix is positioned to spearhead the next significant wave of Edge AI acceptance and growth because to its upcoming chiplet-based architecture.
With this most recent transaction, the company’s total cumulative capital since December 2024 has exceeded US$110 million, including equity investments and significant non-dilutive government awards.
Prominent international investors, who are aware of EdgeCortix’s cutting-edge AI technology, strategic leadership, and strong client traction, continue to show a great deal of interest in the Series B round, which started with an initial closure in August 2025.
This also marks TDK Ventures’ first investment in a Japan-based company.
Dr. Sakyasingha Dasgupta, the founder and CEO of EdgeCortix, is an award-winning physicist turned artificial intelligence (AI) and machine-learning technologist and entrepreneur with almost 20 years of experience turning cutting-edge AI research from an idea to scalable products across semiconductors, robotics, finance, defense, and aerospace sectors.
He has more than thirty US patents. Atsushi Matsumoto, Executive VP of Finance & Operations; Tim Vehling, Executive VP of Global Sales & Business Development; Jeffrey H. Grosman, Executive VP of Marketing & US Operations; and other seasoned leaders comprise the management team.
In addition to current investors like SBI Investments and Global Hands-On VC, TDK Ventures joins a distinguished group of investors in the EdgeCortix Series B funding, including CBID Cross Border Innovation, Jane Street Capital, Yanmar Ventures, Pacific Bays Capital, NTT Finance Corporation, SiC Power, and Aero X Ventures.
Leadership Comments
“EdgeCortix is an exemplary company that represents a major evolution in the edge AI compute space,” said Nicolas Sauvage, president of TDK Ventures. “Its ‘King of the Hill’ position in the ‘Thick Edge’ segment enables its list of varied customers to deploy Generative AI and other complex AI workloads at the very edge. Their unique hardware-software co-design technology offers an unparalleled combination of performance and power efficiency, essential for the next generation of AI and Generative AI applications. We are excited to support their mission.”
“The strong support from both existing and new investors is a clear endorsement of EdgeCortix’s market position and proven success across varied business sectors, such as robotics, industrial automation, defense, aerospace, and space exploration,” said Dr. Sakyasingha Dasgupta, Founder and CEO of EdgeCortix.
“With a global operational footprint, we are proud of our journey and our team’s accomplishments so far, while recognizing that this is just the beginning. We are elated that TDK Ventures believes in our mission and shares our vision on how to obtain it. We also take pride in becoming the first investment in a Japanese company by TDK Ventures, since their founding. We are looking forward to a deep, long-term partnership that accelerates our progress, with their full weight behind us”, added Dr. Sakyasingha.
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