Synthara secures a seed round led by High-Tech Gründerfonds

Synthara, a Zurich, Switzerland-based semiconductor producer startup, announced closing a seed funding round.

The money was raised from investors ld by High-Tech Gründerfonds. The money will be used for growing the business as the company is expanding rapidly and is on track to create double-digit high-tech jobs in Switzerland and Germany.

Synthara, founded based on research made at the Institute of Neuroinformatics (University of Zürich and ETH Zürich) by CEO Manu V Nair, Iulia-Alexandra Lungu and Alessandro Aimar, is a semiconductor AI company working on a new breed of edge-AI chips that eliminate the trade-off between performance and energy efficiency. Synthara’s designs are hand-crafted for smart sensor applications whose computational workload is highly dynamic, such as wearables, IoT, and monitoring.