Habana - About the company
Habana is an acquired company based in San Jose (United States), founded in 2016 by David Dahan. It operates as a Developer of AI-based processors for deep learning processing. Habana has raised $120M in funding from investors like Intel, Bessemer Venture Partners and Walden Venture Capital. The company has 299 active competitors, including 122 funded and 25 that have exited. Its top competitors include companies like Cerebras, Groq and Lightmatter.
Company Details
Developer of AI-based processors for deep learning processing. It provides two processors for inference, Habana Goya, and Habana Gaudi. Its product serves multiple applications including image recognition, neural machine translation, sentiment analysis, and recommendation system.
- Website
- habana.ai
- Email ID
- *****@habana.ai
Key Metrics
Founded Year
2016
Location
San Jose, United States
Stage
Acquired
Total Funding
$120M in 2 rounds
Latest Funding Round
Ranked
33rd among 299 active competitors
Employee Count
205 as on Jun 30, 2026
Exit Details
Acquired by Intel (Dec 16, 2019)
Habana's acquisition details
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Habana's funding and investors
Habana has raised a total funding of $120M over 2 rounds. Its first funding round was on 2017. Its latest funding round was a Series B round on Nov 15, 2018 for $*****. 4 investors participated in its latest round. Habana has 10 institutional investors.
Here is the list of recent funding rounds of Habana:
Date of Funding | Funding Amount | Round Name | Post-Money Valuation | Revenue Multiple | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
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Nov 15, 2018 | 6968345 | Series B | 8397516 | 2812610 | 2760183 | 9371678 |
2017 | 3928 | Series A | 3748 | 3285 | 9519 |
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Habana's founders and board of directors
Founder? Claim ProfileThe founders of Habana is David Dahan. David Dahan is the CEO of Habana.
Here are the details of Habana's key team members:
- David Dahan: Co-Founder & CEO of Habana.
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Habana's employee count trend
Habana has 205 employees as of Jun 26. Here is Habana's employee count trend over the years:
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Habana's Competitors and alternates
Top competitors of Habana include Cerebras, Groq and Lightmatter. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of Habana, ranked by Tracxn score:
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Rank | Company Details | Short Description | Total Funding | Investors | Tracxn Score |
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1st | Cerebras 2015, Sunnyvale (United States), Public | Provider of high-performance AI infrastructure and wafer-scale computing solutions | $2.82B | 72/100 | |
2nd | Groq 2016, Mountain View (United States), Series E | Provider of AI inference platforms and on-premise AI inference clusters | $2.42B | 71/100 | |
3rd | Lightmatter 2017, Boston (United States), Series D | Developer of photonic interconnects and co-packaged optics for AI infrastructure | $850M | 70/100 | |
4th | Ambarella 2004, Santa Clara (United States), Public | Manufacturer of AI-enabled image processors | $15.4M | 69/100 | |
5th | Graphcore Systems 2016, Bristol (United Kingdom), Acquired | Manufacturer of hardware and software for machine learning processing tasks | $742M | 68/100 | |
6th | Black Sesame Technologies 2016, Pudong (China), Public | Developer of AI-based chips for machine vision tasks | $500M | 67/100 | |
7th | Ayar Labs 2015, San Jose (United States), Series E | Developer of optical interconnect solutions for artificial intelligence infrastructure applications | $872M | 66/100 | |
8th | Celestial AI 2020, Santa Clara (United States), Acquired | Developer of optical interconnect technology for artificial intelligence infrastructure systems | $589M | 66/100 | |
9th | SambaNova Systems 2017, Palo Alto (United States), Series F | Provider of AI-powered software and hardware | $2.48B | 65/100 | |
10th | Tenstorrent 2016, Toronto (Canada), Series D | Developer of hardware and open-source software for artificial intelligence acceleration | $1.18B | 65/100 | |
33rd | Habana 2016, San Jose (United States), Acquired | Developer of AI-based processors for deep learning processing | $120M | 59/100 |
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Habana's Investments and acquisitions
Habana has made no investments or acquisitions yet.
Reports related to Habana
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News related to Habana
Media has covered Habana for a total of 2 events in the last 1 year, 1 of them has been about company updates.
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Intel Resumes Work on Habana Labs AI Accelerator Linux Driver with NVMe Direct I/O Supportphoronix.com•Sep 26, 2025•Habana, Intel
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BrainChip Attracts Former Intel AI Sales Executive to Head Up SalesBusiness Wire•Dec 04, 2023•BrainChip, Habana
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Linux 6.3 DRM Brings Intel VPU Driver, Drops Legacy Drivers, Many AMD Updatesphoronix.com•Feb 23, 2023•Intel, Habana,
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Habana Labs and Hugging Face Partner to Accelerate Transformer Model TrainingHugging Face•Apr 12, 2022•Hugging Face, Habana
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