Calligo Technologies, a Bangalore, India-based semiconductor startup, raised $1.1m in pre-series A funding round.
The round was led by Seafund and Artha Venture Fund.
The company intends to use the funds for expansion of its engineering talent and tech capabilities to build ver2.0 of the Silicon chip and establish partnerships.
Founded by Anantha Kinnal, Rajaraman Subramanian, and Vinay N Hebbali, Calligo Technologies is focused on developing products and solutions for HPC, Big Data, and AI workloads. The company aims to solve the performance bottlenecks of computing needed for large-scale modeling and simulations in HPC systems and large-model training and inference needed in AI systems, a critical need in a market with large computational needs.
In the last 12 months, CalligoTech has collaborated with US universities, national laboratories, and supercomputing centers to improve access to tech talent and soft launch its operations in the US.
The company, which has also built an accelerator board, received First Pass Silicon Ver1.0, and started shipping to customers. In the next 12-18 months, Calligo plans to capture the market by allowing customers to experience its current product and tape out its System-on-Chip (ver2.0 of Silicon) for high-volume manufacturing.
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