Startup · Japan
EdgeCortix
HQ Ginza, JapanFounded 201951-200 employees
Next Wave of Generative AI at the Edge. Introducing SAKURA-II, the world’s most flexible and energy-efficient AI accelerator.
Products4
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Funding9 rounds · ~$51.0M + ¥5.5B
- Disclosed
- ~$51.0M + ¥5.5B
- Latest
- UndisclosedSeries B · Apr 14, 2026
| Announced | Stage | Amount | Valuation | Lead investors | Other investors | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 2026 | Series B | Undisclosed | — | — | — | Reported |
| Nov 6, 2025 | Series B | Undisclosed | — | — | Aero X Ventures, Global Hands-On VC, SBI Investment | Confirmed |
| Oct 27, 2025 | Debt | ¥1.50B | — | Mizuho Bank | — | Confirmed |
| Aug 18, 2025 | Series B | Undisclosed | — | — | Aero X Ventures, Global Hands-On VC, SBI Investment | Confirmed |
| May 28, 2025 | Grant | $21.0M | — | NEDO | — | Confirmed |
| Nov 6, 2024 | Grant | ¥4.00B | — | NEDO | — | Confirmed |
| Oct 4, 2023 | Series A | $20.0M | — | Global Hands-On VC, SBI Investment | — | Reported |
| Feb 28, 2022 | Series A | $8.0M | — | Vajra Direct, LLC | — | Confirmed |
| 2020 | Seed | ~$2.0M | — | — | — | Speculative |
- Series BUndisclosedApr 14, 2026
- UndisclosedNov 6, 2025
- ¥1.50BOct 27, 2025
- UndisclosedAug 18, 2025
- $21.0MMay 28, 2025
- ¥4.00BNov 6, 2024
- Series ALed by Global Hands-On VC, SBI Investment$20.0MOct 4, 2023
- Series ALed by Vajra Direct, LLCConfirmed$8.0MFeb 28, 2022
- SeedSpeculative~$2.0M2020
Totals add known amounts using recorded USD conversions where available; other currencies are shown separately. A ~ marks an estimated amount.
Sources20
Profile5
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PitchBook · Supports Organization · employee range, Organization · founded year, Organization · linkedin url, Organization · x url
“employee_range: 51-200 (profile: 66)”
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Sixth-Domain · Supports Organization · country, Organization · kind
“{"country": "Japan", "hq_iso2": "JP", "id": "a444406e-a06c-4824-828f-7b0f01e768c8"}”
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Crunchbase · Supports Organization · hq city, Organization · linkedin url, Organization · x url
“hq_city: Ginza”
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EdgeCortix · Supports Organization · description, Organization · name, Organization · website
“Next Wave of Generative AI at the Edge. Introducing SAKURA-II, the world’s most flexible and energy-efficient AI accelerator.”
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LinkedIn · Supports Organization · employee range, Organization · founded year, Organization · hq city, Organization · linkedin url
“employee_range: 51-200 (profile: 51-200 employees)”
Products4
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EdgeCortix · Supports System
“EdgeCortix Dynamic Neural Accelerator II (DNA-II) is a highly-efficient and powerful neural network IP core that can be paired with any host processor. Achieving exceptional parallelism and efficiency through run-time reconfigurable interconnects between compute elements, DNA-II has support for both convolutional and transformer networks, and is ideal for a wide variety of edge AI applications.”
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EdgeCortix · Supports System
“EdgeCortix® MERA is a compiler and software framework providing a robust platform for deploying the latest neural network models in a framework agnostic manner. MERA enables deep neural network graph compilation and AI inference using the [Dynamic Neural Accelerator (DNA”
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EdgeCortix · Supports System
“RAIDEN™ is a scalable, energy-efficient chiplet platform designed to run the complete workload and scale the entire system. At its core, our new DNA-X® architecture preserves the runtime-reconfigurable benefits from the previous generation, while adding entirely new microcode-programmable matrix and vector processing engines.”
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EdgeCortix · Supports System
“SAKURA-II is an advanced AI accelerator providing best-in-class efficiency, driven by our low-latency Dynamic Neural Accelerator (DNA). SAKURA-II is designed for applications requiring fast, real-time Batch=1 AI inferencing with excellent performance in a small footprint, low power silicon device.”
Funding11
- 10
Semiconductor Digest · Apr 15, 2026 · Supports Funding round · amount
“today announced a new investment from Axiro Semiconductor Pvt. Ltd.”
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FinSMEs · Nov 6, 2025 · Supports Funding round · amount
“The amount of the deal was not disclosed.”
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Business Wire via StreetInsider · Nov 6, 2025 · Supports Funding round · amount
“announced the second close of its oversubscribed Series B financing round”
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EdgeCortix · Oct 27, 2025 · Supports Funding round · amount
“today announced that it has secured a ¥1.5 billion line of credit from Mizuho Bank, Ltd.”
- 14CompanyEdgeCortix completes initial close of Series B financing, driving total funding to nearly $100m
TelecomTV (EdgeCortix release) · Aug 18, 2025 · Supports Funding round · amount
“today announced the initial close of its Series B funding round”
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EdgeCortix · May 28, 2025 · Supports Funding round · amount
“awarded an additional 3 billion Yen ($21 Million USD) project”
- 16
EdgeCortix · Nov 6, 2024 · Supports Funding round · amount
“awarded a 4 Billion Yen subsidy from Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO)”
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TNGlobal · Oct 4, 2023 · Supports Funding round, Funding round · amount
“led by Japan’s venture capital (VC) firm SBI Investment Co. Ltd. and Global Hands-On VC (GHOVC)”
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PR Newswire · Feb 28, 2022 · Supports Funding round, Funding round · amount
“The Series A was led by US-based Vajra Direct”
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Crunchbase · Supports Funding round
“Seed - EdgeCortix”
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Seedtable · Supports Funding round · amount
“Seed | 2.0M USD | 1 Jan 2020”
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