BrainChip - About the company
BrainChip is an acquired company based in California (United States), founded in 2013 by Peter Van Der Made and Anil Mankar. It operates as a Developer of neural processing AI platform units for edge applications. BrainChip has raised an undisclosed amount in funding. The company has 313 active competitors, including 118 funded and 51 that have exited. Its top competitors include companies like Nvidia, Espressif and Groq.
Company Details
Developer of neural processing AI platform units for edge applications. It offers a hardware system based on spiking neural network technology that consists of many custom-designed cores that operate in parallel, making it fast as compared to software neural networks that run on CPU or GPU. Its ability to run on low power and small size makes it possible to integrate with any device with only a chip.
- Website
- brainchipinc.com
- Email ID
- *****@brainchip.com.au
- Phone Number
- +1 **********
Key Metrics
Founded Year
2013
Location
California, United States
Stage
Acquired
Latest Funding Round
Ranked
103rd among 313 active competitors
Employee Count
87 as on May 31, 2026
Investment & Acquisitions
Exit Details
Acquired by Aziana (Mar 18, 2015)
BrainChip's acquisition details
BrainChip got acquired by Aziana on Mar 18, 2015.
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BrainChip's funding and investors
BrainChip has raised funding over 4 rounds. Its first funding round was on Oct 25, 2016. Its latest funding round was a Post IPO round on Aug 13, 2020 for $*****. 1 investor participated in its latest round. BrainChip has 2 institutional investors.
Here is the list of recent funding rounds of BrainChip:
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Filter this listDate of Funding | Funding Amount | Round Name | Post-Money Valuation | Revenue Multiple | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
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Aug 13, 2020 | 3173459 | Post IPO | 6710063 | 5673832 | 3303101 | 6409088 |
Oct 31, 2017 | 5729646 | Post IPO | 6178094 | 4900398 | 7601854 | 9204476 |
May 25, 2017 | 4217032 | Post IPO | 6413933 | 9438592 | 1846660 | 6056236 |
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BrainChip's founders and board of directors
Founder? Claim ProfileThe founders of BrainChip are Peter Van Der Made and Anil Mankar.
Here are the details of BrainChip's key team members:
- Peter Van Der Made: Former Co-Founder of BrainChip.
- Anil Mankar: Co-Founder of BrainChip.
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BrainChip's employee count trend
BrainChip has 87 employees as of May 26. Here is BrainChip's employee count trend over the years:
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BrainChip's Competitors and alternates
Top competitors of BrainChip include Nvidia, Espressif and Groq. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of BrainChip, ranked by Tracxn score:
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Rank | Company Details | Short Description | Total Funding | Investors | Tracxn Score |
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1st | Nvidia 1993, Santa Clara (United States), Public | Developer of hardware and software solutions for artificial intelligence computing | $5M | 82/100 | |
2nd | Provider of wireless communication chips, software, cloud, and AIoT solutions | $3.3M | 75/100 | ||
3rd | Groq 2016, Mountain View (United States), Series E | Developer of specialized hardware processors for artificial intelligence inference workloads | $2.77B | 72/100 | |
4th | Lightmatter 2017, Boston (United States), Series D | Developer of photonic interconnects and co-packaged optics for AI infrastructure | $850M | 70/100 | |
5th | Graphcore Systems 2016, Bristol (United Kingdom), Acquired | Manufacturer of hardware and software for machine learning processing tasks | $742M | 68/100 | |
6th |  DarkVision 2013, North Vancouver (Canada), Acquired | Developer of acoustic imaging technology for industrial asset inspection applications | $5.5M | 68/100 | |
7th |  Ayar Labs 2015, San Jose (United States), Series E | Developer of optical interconnect solutions for artificial intelligence infrastructure applications | $1.02B | 67/100 | |
8th |  Celestial AI 2020, Santa Clara (United States), Acquired | Developer of optical interconnect technology for artificial intelligence infrastructure systems | $589M | 66/100 | |
9th | Provider of neural learning processors for edge AI applications | $340M | 66/100 | ||
10th | Developer of system on chips for IoT, vision, and edge applications | $10.6M | 66/100 | ||
103rd | BrainChip 2013, California (United States), Acquired | Developer of neural processing AI platform units for edge applications | - | 40/100 |
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BrainChip's Investments and acquisitions
BrainChip has acquired BrainChip. BrainChip has not made any investments as of now.Reports related to BrainChip
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News related to BrainChip
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BrainChip Showcases Edge AI Technologies at 2023 Embedded Vision SummitBusiness Wire•May 10, 2023•BrainChip
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SiFive and BrainChip Partner to Demo IP CompatibilityEE times•Apr 20, 2022•SiFive, BrainChip, BrainChip
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BrainChip and NVISO Partner on Human Behavioral Analytics in Automotive and Edge AI DevicesBusiness Wire•Apr 20, 2022•BrainChip, NVISO
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BrainChip Continues Expansion with Sales Partnerships in New Geographic MarketsBusiness Wire•Mar 09, 2022•BrainChip
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BrainChip Awarded US Patent for Accessing Learned Functions in an Intelligent Target DeviceBusiness Wire•Feb 02, 2022•BrainChip
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