Intel Capital

Author: Hannah Kroot

From $100M Seed to Unicorn in Months: Upscale AI Closes Oversubscribed $200M Series A to Build the First Pure-Play AI Networking Company

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Santa Clara, Calif. – Jan. 21, 2026 – Upscale AI, Inc., a category-defining pure-play AI networking infrastructure company, today announced $200 million Series A financing led by Tiger Global, Premji Invest, and Xora Innovation with participation from Maverick Silicon, StepStone Group, Mayfield, Prosperity7 Ventures, Intel Capital, and Qualcomm Ventures. This new investment brings the total … Continued

Intel Capital at Thirty-Five: Building on a Legacy of Innovation

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Reflecting on Thirty-Five Years As we approach the thirty-fifth anniversary of Intel Capital, I find myself reflecting on the depth of our history and the momentum that continues to define us. Since our founding in 1991 as the first corporate venture firm, we have partnered with countless founders whose ideas have helped shape the world … Continued

AI in the Enterprise: How Companies Are Becoming AI-First

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Across industries, the role of AI in the enterprise has evolved from experimentation to transformation. AI is no longer a discrete capability. For leading enterprises and those seeking a competitive edge, it has become a core part of how they operate, compete, and grow. At Intel Capital, we see this evolution up close. As investors … Continued

Fabric8Labs Secures $50M to Expand U.S. Advanced Manufacturing Capacity

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SAN DIEGO — November 13, 2025 — Fabric8Labs, the company pioneering electrochemical additive manufacturing, today announced a $50 million funding round to expand its U.S.-based advanced manufacturing facilities, boosting capacity to produce tens of millions of components annually. Powered by its breakthrough Electrochemical Additive Manufacturing (ECAM) technology, Fabric8Labs is scaling up production of next-generation electronics … Continued

Secrets, Everywhere: Why We Co-Led Truffle Security’s Series B

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Today, we are thrilled to announce that Intel Capital co-led Truffle Security’s $25 million Series B financing alongside Andreessen Horowitz. In modern software development, secrets are everywhere. They’re the very bedrock that one machine or service uses to authenticate itself to another machine or service. These secrets – API keys, database passwords, private access tokens – … Continued

Truffle Security Raises $25 Million Series B to Expand NHI Security

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Funding fuels customer growth and product expansion, including TruffleHog GCP Analyze for context-aware detection of leaked GCP secrets in Google Cloud San Francisco, CA, November 6, 2025 — Truffle Security, the company behind TruffleHog, the leading open-source project for detecting and remediating non-human identities (NHIs) and their secrets, today announced a $25 million Series B … Continued

Part II: What’s Next for Quantum Computing

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A version of this article, authored by Kike Miralles, was originally featured in SiliconANGLE. In the first part of this series, we explored the opportunity of quantum computing and introduced our five-layer stack as a framework for understanding the industry’s value chain. This model helps clarify where innovation is happening, from the core quantum processing … Continued

Part I: Mapping the Quantum Revolution

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A version of this article, authored by Kike Miralles, was originally featured in SiliconANGLE. Quantum technology represents one of the most promising opportunities of the coming decade, with several billion dollars already invested in the space, a wide variety of early products reaching the market, and a growing talent influx. Hundreds of startups are now … Continued

Reimagining Data Center Infrastructure for the AI Era: Intel Capital Leads Mueon’s Seed Round

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Over the past few years, we’ve seen remarkable innovation across the semiconductor landscape aimed at solving the compute, memory, and power challenges posed by AI workloads. At Intel Capital, we’ve backed startups pushing the boundaries of interconnect latency, memory density, and materials science. But the exponential growth in AI adoption is now straining data center … Continued

Mueon Emerges From Stealth with $15.5M Seed to Redefine Data Centers for the AI Era

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The company’s modular CubeletsTM optimize compute, memory, power, and thermal management to unlock exponential performance improvements Portland, Oregon – September 17, 2025 – Mueon, a company developing semiconductor-based systems for AI and hyperscale computing, today announced its launch from stealth with $15.5M in seed funding and the debut of CubeletsTM, stackable, modular components designed to … Continued