{"id":1029633,"date":"2026-08-19T08:01:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T02:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029633"},"modified":"2026-08-19T09:01:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T03:31:57","slug":"chip-designer-velaura-ai-valued-at-more-than-1-billion-after-funding-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/19\/chip-designer-velaura-ai-valued-at-more-than-1-billion-after-funding-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Chip designer Velaura AI valued at more than $1 billion after funding round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Velaura AI was valued at more than $1 billion on Tuesday after raising $110 million in a Series A funding round, with investors backing the startup&#8217;s chip design technology for lowering \u200cpower consumption \u2060and \u2060operating costs at AI data centers. <\/p>\n<p>The funding round \u200bwas led by Seligman Ventures, with participation from new \u200binvestor Capricorn Investment Group. Existing investors Samsung Catalyst Fund, StepStone Group and Maverick \u200bSilicon also participated. <\/p>\n<p>Velaura AI develops low-power chips and software technologies for data centers \u2060and so-called physical AI applications, including robotics and autonomous systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Velaura AI was valued at more than $1 billion on Tuesday after raising $110 million in a Series A funding round, with investors backing the startup&#8217;s chip design technology for lowering \u200cpower consumption \u2060and \u2060operating costs at AI data centers. The funding round \u200bwas led by Seligman Ventures, with participation from new \u200binvestor Capricorn Investment Group. Existing investors Samsung Catalyst Fund, StepStone Group and Maverick \u200bSilicon also participated. Velaura AI develops low-power chips and software technologies for data centers \u2060and so-called physical AI applications, including robotics and autonomous systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029653,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029633\/revisions\/1029653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}