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Tilera is a technology company.
Tilera Corporation was a fabless semiconductor company specializing in the design and development of highly scalable manycore embedded processors. Its core product was the TILE family of processors, known for their innovative tile architecture. These multicore chips provided solutions for demanding applications requiring significant parallel processing capabilities, serving infrastructure markets with high-performance, power-efficient computing.
The company was founded in 2004 by Dr. Anant Agarwal, a distinguished professor at MIT. Dr. Agarwal's foundational research at MIT into novel microprocessor architectures, particularly the RAW microprocessor, provided the key insight that led to the inception of Tilera, focusing on the potential of thousands of processing cores on a single chip. This expertise in parallel computing formed the bedrock of the company's technological approach.
Tilera's processors found application in diverse areas, including networking infrastructure, digital multimedia processing, and wireless communications. The company aimed to empower network intelligence, video, and cloud computing solutions by offering efficient and powerful processing. Its long-term vision was to lead the evolution of high-performance computing in embedded systems, enabling the next generation of data-intensive and parallel processing applications.
Tilera has raised $135.0M across 4 funding rounds.
Tilera has raised $135.0M in total across 4 funding rounds.
Tilera was a fabless semiconductor company that designed many‑core processors (the TILE family) for networking, cloud and multimedia workloads and whose IP was ultimately absorbed into larger vendors after acquisition.[2][1]
High‑Level Overview
Origin Story
Core Differentiators
Role in the Broader Tech Landscape
Quick Take & Future Outlook
Quick tie back: Tilera’s core contribution was proving a scalable many‑core + mesh approach could solve specific networking and streaming throughput problems, and while the company was acquired, its architectural DNA persists in today’s networking and smartNIC technologies.[2][1]
Tilera has raised $135.0M in total across 4 funding rounds.
Tilera's investors include Artis Capital Management, Bessemer Venture Partners, Cisco, Columbia Capital, Comerica Bank, Samsung, Walden International, WestSummit Capital, Samsung Ventures, Broadcom, NTT Finance, Quanta Computer.
Tilera has raised $135.0M across 4 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $45.0M Other Equity in January 2011.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 18, 2011 | $45.0M Other Equity | Artis Capital Management | Bessemer Venture Partners, Cisco, Columbia Capital, Comerica Bank, Samsung, Walden International, WestSummit Capital |
| Jan 1, 2011 | $45.0M Series D | Samsung Ventures, Walden International | |
| Mar 8, 2010 | $25.0M Series C | Broadcom, NTT Finance, Quanta Computer | |
| Feb 1, 2007 | $20.0M Series B | Walden International |