Axiado Secures $100 Million in Series C+ Funding for Hardware Security Chips

Axiado Secures $100 Million in Series C+ Funding for Hardware Security Chips December 22, 2025 As artificial intelligence workloads intensify demands on data center infrastructure, the need for robust, hardware-level security has moved from a premium feature to a foundational requirement. In response to this critical industry shift, semiconductor startup Axiado has successfully closed a significant funding round to advance its specialized security platform. The California-based company announced it has raised over $100 million in a Series C+ financing round. The investment was led by Maverick Silicon, with participation from a consortium of venture capital firms including Prosperity7 Ventures, Orbit Venture Partners, Crosslink Capital, and Nosterra Ventures. The capital infusion, details of which were disclosed earlier this month, is earmarked to accelerate the development and commercialization of Axiado's flagship product: the Trusted Control/Compute Unit (TCU). The TCU is a system-on-chip designed to integrate secure control, compute, and AI-driven monitoring into a single hardware component. By embedding continuous sensing and autonomous threat response capabilities directly into the silicon, the platform aims to provide the core foundation for intelligent, self-managing, and resilient data center systems. The newly acquired funds will fuel the growth of Axiado's platform security, system management, and energy efficiency solutions tailored for AI data centers, networking equipment, telecoms vendors, and edge deployments. Furthermore, the company plans to expand its sales, marketing, and support teams while investing in next-generation platform development. "The strong response to our Series C+ round is a clear validation from our customers and partners that AI-driven, hardware-anchored security is now a foundational requirement for today’s data centers," said Gopi Sirineni, founder, president and CEO of Axiado. Andrew Homan, managing partner at lead investor Maverick Silicon, emphasized the growing market imperative, stating, "As AI workloads continue to transform and push the limits of data center infrastructure, the need for hardware-anchored security has never been greater. Axiado’s TCU not only protects infrastructure from threats in real time but also helps optimize power and cooling." This substantial funding round signals strong investor confidence in hardware-based security as a critical enabler for the next generation of cloud and AI-ready computing environments. It positions Axiado to scale its operations and compete in a market increasingly focused on building secure, intelligent, and sustainable infrastructure from the silicon up. Source: datacenterdynamics