AheadComputing Raises $30M to Advance High-Performance CPU for AI Workloads

January 22, 2026
Portland-based AheadComputing has raised $30 million in a Seed2 round led by Eclipse, Toyota Ventures, and Cambium to accelerate development of its RISC-V-based CPU architecture designed for AI applications.

AheadComputing has raised $30 million in a Seed2 funding round to further develop its high-performance CPU microarchitecture for AI workloads, announced in a press release. The new investment brings the company’s total funding to $53 million.

The round was co-led by Eclipse, Toyota Ventures, and Cambium, with participation from Corner, Trousdale Ventures, EPIQ, MESH, and Stata. The funds will support research and development, software innovation, and test chip production as the company scales its 120-person engineering team.

AheadComputing’s architecture combines RISC-V extensibility with a new microarchitecture aimed at delivering improved per-core performance for AI and data center applications. The company is collaborating with ecosystem partners including Alchip, Cadence, Skyechip, and Tenstorrent to develop its first product.

Founded in 2024, AheadComputing focuses on bringing RISC-V into mainstream data center infrastructure through general-purpose CPUs optimized for the growing share of AI inference and agentic workloads.

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