Movellus Raises $6M in Series A Funding, Led by Stata Venture Partners

Movellus, Inc. today announced $6 million in Series A venture funding,
bringing its total funding to date to $10M. The company is fundamentally
transforming SoC design by automating the generation of traditional
analog IP using digital tools and standard cells. Movellus’
initial products include PLLs, DLLs & LDOs that are optimized per design
for markets ranging from edge AI to cloud computing.

The $6 million in funding was led by Stata Venture Partners, run by Ray
Stata, founder and Chairman of Analog Devices. Also participating in the
round are Intel Capital, which had invested in two prior funding rounds,
and University of Michigan’s MINTS (Michigan Invests in New Technology
Startups).

Movellus is on a mission to dramatically reduce SoC time to market and
improve the power, performance and area. To achieve this, Movellus
utilizes proprietary technology that leverages digital infrastructure to
automatically implement new “analog” blocks. This technology has proven
scalable with customers, both for the high-performance cloud computing
market, where designs run at multi-GHz and the ultra-low power edge AI
market. For the latter, Movellus possesses the unique ability to create
nano-watt PLLs that are optimized for battery-less applications.

Funding to Expand Infrastructure to Meet Demand for Accelerated
Analog Design

The new $6M in funding will be used to further expand Movellus’
infrastructure to meet the company’s rapidly growing customer demand,
expand its product portfolio, and increase its market penetration.

“Movellus’ innovative approach of leveraging digital design
infrastructure and their proprietary architectures to implement analog
blocks is poised to have a major impact on the semiconductor
industry,” stated Ray Stata, Founder, Stata Venture Partners. “I am
excited to partner with the Movellus team because their technology
represents the natural evolution of chip design as it applies to analog
circuits.”

“Ray Stata has been a true legend in the semiconductor industry for
decades and this endorsement represents a significant validation of our
technology,” said Mo Faisal, President and CEO of Movellus. “It is an
honor to work with Stata Venture Partners to accelerate our growth and
transform how traditional analog design is implemented in SoCs.”

About Movellus Product Portfolio

Movellus uses digital tools and standard cells to create analog IP
blocks with better power, performance and area than their custom analog
counterparts. Additionally, each IP is process-portable, customizable
and DFT enabled. This type of automation enables customers to utilize
analog components that are optimized for their design instead of the
other way around and meet their aggressive schedules.

About Movellus

Movellus uses digital infrastructure to automatically produce
design-optimized, process portable analog blocks that serve both the
high-performance cloud computing and the ultra-low power Edge AI
markets. Movellus’ customers span cloud computing, AI, edge AI, and FPGA
markets.

Movellus is located at 3031 Tisch Way, 110 Plaza West, San Jose, CA
95128. For more information please visit www.movellus.com
or email [email protected].

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