Led by Maverick Silicon with participation from Samsung Catalyst Fund, Atreides Management, and Crosslink Capital this investment will help to support the company's rapid growth and continued innovation in AI-driven cybersecurity technologies intended for accelerated computing in AI data centres.
Axiado's Trusted Control/Compute Unit (TCU) addresses some of the most pressing challenges in platform security for accelerated computing and AI data centre power efficiency.
Forrester's recently published 2025 Predictions report for Cybersecurity, Risk, and Privacy projects cybercrime costs to reach multiple trillions globally by 2025. With the escalating frequency of ransomware attacks – more than 2,500 incidents were reported in the first half of 2024 alone, averaging more than 14 publicly claimed attacks daily.
Consequently, there is a need for robust platform cybersecurity.
Axiado's AI-driven, hardware-anchored TCU solution provides pre-emptive threat detection and real-time mitigation to combat these escalating digital threats. Axiado's approach to platform security is seen as playing a critical role in safeguarding the expanding data centre infrastructure as AI technologies are increasingly deployed in cloud computing, data centres, networking, and storage.
Beyond platform security, Axiado's Dynamic Thermal Management (DTM) solution, embedded within the TCU, is designed to meet the power efficiency demands of AI data centres.
It does this by leveraging on-chip AI cores. Axiado's DTM solution optimises thermal management by predicting and adjusting cooling requirements - whether air-cooled or liquid-cooled - based on real-time data.
According to the company, this approach radically improves energy efficiency of AI servers and accelerates the move toward carbon-neutral data centres through secure, sustainable thermal management.
"The oversubscription of our Series C funding strongly endorses the industry's recognition of the need for an innovative, hardware-anchored, and AI-driven platform security solution for accelerated computing," said Gopi Sirineni, CEO of Axiado. "This investment reflects the confidence our investors have in Axiado's approach to platform security, management, and data centre net-zero goals and reinforces our commitment to delivering solutions that address some of the most urgent challenges in today's digital infrastructure."
The company’s flagship TCU solution integrates key infrastructure security and management functions into a system-on-chip (SoC), providing essential compute, networking, and accelerator integration. These solutions are designed to detect, quarantine, and protect systems against breaches, vulnerabilities, and attacks as they occur directly in hardware.
Axiado will use the Series C funding to drive continued innovation, strengthen strategic partnerships with leading platform vendors like NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, and Arm, and accelerate go-to-market initiatives with OEM and ODM partners to drive Axiado solutions into the data centres.
"As AI and accelerated computing transform data centre demands, it's crucial to integrate hardware-anchored security that adapts to high-performance infrastructures," said Marco Chisari, Executive Vice President, Head of Samsung Semiconductor Innovation Center at Samsung Electronics. "We are excited to support Axiado and their AI-driven TCU technology, which has the potential to set new standards in platform security in the age of accelerated computing with AI."
