Fractile

Hardware · London, GB

Designs specialised AI inference chips promising order-of-magnitude faster token generation than current hardware.

Founders

Walter Goodwin (United Kingdom · ♂) — While doing a PhD at the Oxford Robotics Institute using LLMs to control robots, he hit the AI compute bottleneck and founded Fractile in 2022 to build radical in-memory-compute inference chips.
Yuhang Song (China · ♂) — An Oxford-trained AI researcher who co-founded Fractile to develop its in-memory compute architecture for faster, more efficient AI inference.

Shares the most investors with (number = shared investors):

Date	Round	Amount
May 2026	Series B Fractile (London) raised $220M in a round co-led by Accel, Factorial Funds and Founders Fund for its specialized AI inference chips challenging NVIDIA.	$220M
Jul 2024	Seed UK AI-chip startup Fractile raised a £12M seed co-led by Kindred Capital, the NATO Innovation Fund and Oxford Science Enterprises.	$15.4M

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