Insider Brief
- Ethernovia has raised more than $90 million in a Series B funding round to advance development of its Ethernet-based packet processors for automotive, robotics, and industrial edge systems.
- The round was led by Maverick Silicon, with participation from Socratic Partners, Conduit Capital, CDIB-TEN Capital, and existing investors including Porsche SE, Qualcomm Ventures, and Fall Line Capital.
- Ethernovia plans to use the funding to accelerate chip development and production, expand software and systems capabilities, and support customer deployments across automotive, robotics, and industrial markets.
Ethernovia has raised more than $90 million in a Series B round to advance development of its Ethernet-based packet processors for automotive, robotics, and industrial edge systems, according to the company. The round was led by Maverick Silicon, with participation from Socratic Partners, Conduit Capital, CDIB-TEN Capital, and existing investors including Porsche SE, Qualcomm Ventures, and Fall Line Capital.
“The industry is entering the era of physical AI — where intelligence must sense, reason and act in the real world with predictable, real-time performance,” Ramin Shirani, Ethernovia CEO and co-founder, said in the company’s announcement. “Legacy in-vehicle and industrial networks were never designed for AI-driven workloads. However, our packet processor platform is purpose-built to eliminate these constraints, enabling zonal and centralized architectures that scale autonomy and dramatically simplify vehicle system design.”
The San Jose–based startup is developing packet processors designed to handle large volumes of real-time sensor, vision, and AI data at the edge, aiming to replace legacy in-vehicle and industrial networking architectures with a unified, Ethernet-based approach, Ethernovia said. The chips are intended to support software-defined vehicle and machine designs, including autonomous driving, advanced driver-assistance systems, and robotic control, by providing deterministic latency and programmable data paths.
Ethernovia said the new capital will be used to accelerate product development and production, expand software and systems capabilities, and support customer engagements across automotive, robotics, and industrial markets.
Managing director of Maverick Silicon Kenneth Safar said the firm was “thrilled” to be leading the Series B funding for Ethernovia.
“As autonomous systems become more complex, latency, power efficiency and architectural flexibility are no longer optional — they are essential,” he said. “Ethernovia has fundamentally reimagined the nervous system of intelligent machines with its packet processing platform, solving a critical networking bottleneck in automotive, robotics and industrial AI.”
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