This startup had earlier secured $3 million in a seed funding round from Vertex Ventures in August 2024.
BigEndian Semiconductors, a fabless semiconductor startup, has secured $6 million in a pre-Series A funding round led by IAN Alpha Fund. Other participants included existing investors, Vertex Ventures SEA and India, IvyCap Ventures, and strategic angel investors.
This startup had earlier secured $3 million in a seed funding round from Vertex Ventures in August 2024.
With this secured amount, the startup will launch its first system-on-chip SoC, scale product engineering, and strengthen partnerships across foundries, IP ecosystems, and OEMs.
The company was founded by Sunil Kumar, Renuka Prasad, Dinesh Annayya, Kanagaraju Ponnusamy, and Jansen Cheng in March 2024. It makes secure, high-performance SoCs for global applications. The startup focuses on developing silicon platforms for surveillance, telecom, IoT, and enterprise systems.
BigEndian combines hardware and software with expertise in VLSI, system architecture, and embedded software. It is developing trusted silicon solutions for both national security and commercial use cases.
Making fabless semiconductors needs long-term capital, deep technical expertise, and a high tolerance for early-stage risk, areas where India’s ecosystem is still evolving. As global supply chains diversify, the company is navigating complex design, verification, and tape-out cycles while building original silicon IP.
BigEndian has made collaborative agreements between Taiwan and India. The startup is working to support end-to-end semiconductor innovation from architecture and tape out to product launch.
