System IP technology startup Baya Systems raises $36+ million in series B round of funding led by Maverick Silicon, backed by a strategic investment from Synopsys. Current investors, Matrix Partners and Intel Capital too participated.
Baya will invest the new funds raised to support operational growth, accelerate the development and deployment of its software-driven system IP technology portfolio for system-on-chip (SoC) designs and the emerging chiplet economy.
San Fransisco based Baya was founded in 2023 by Dr. Sailesh Kumar, Dr. Eric Norige, and Joji Philip.
The growing demand for AI and efficient computing is transforming System-on-Chip (SoC) design. The industry is moving toward a “system-of-chips” model, using chiplets to improve performance, reduce power consumption, and cut costs. This approach addresses the slowing pace and rising expense of traditional SoC advancements.
Baya is introducing modular solutions to support this shift. These designs cater to AI, automotive, and data center needs while adhering to emerging standards like Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink™). The new die-to-die interconnect technology enhances AI scaling, marking a step forward in computing innovation.
“Generative AI and multimodal compute have clearly shown that the real challenge has transitioned from compute engines to data movement and connectivity to truly deliver on the performance and efficiency needs of AI acceleration and scale compute infrastructure and communications,” said Andrew Homan, Managing Director at Maverick Silicon. “The team at Baya Systems is uniquely positioned to fill this critical gap in the industry with its WeaverPro, WeaveIP and other solutions.”
To better support AI and other compute-heavy and data-intensive applications, Baya offers a holistic approach to design, analyze and build complex, highly performant multi-die systems that overcome traditional semiconductors’ bottlenecks of data movement and scalability. Baya’s foundational WeaverPro software enables continuous refinement of data-driven architecture and micro-architecture development from initial specification through post-silicon tuning, with built-in simulation and workload analysis that ensures the design delivers on KPIs. The comprehensive WeaveIP advanced system IP portfolio, with its unique transport, supports custom and standard protocols, maximizes performance and throughput while minimizing latency, silicon footprint and power, rapidly delivering complex solutions.
“Baya Systems has executed ahead of schedule on building the team, the technology and the products that deliver on its vision to solve the high-performance system design challenge for the semiconductor industry,” said Stan Reiss, general partner, Matrix Partners. “This has uncovered a much larger scope for the company, and in our view, this new infusion of capital is necessary to extend leadership and capitalize on that opportunity.”
“Designing increasingly complex combinations of CPUs, GPUs, neural network accelerators and other processors is a brute-force solution that the industry cannot rely on forever. It simply comes with too many risks: high re-engineering costs, difficulty scaling and potentially hitting the market with sub-par metrics,” said Dr. Sailesh Kumar, founder and CEO, Baya Systems. “Baya’s performance-focused, software-based approach, coupled with our unique transport and modular fabric IP, is designed from the ground up to produce complex multi-die solutions that are correct by construction with a simplified design process.”