Silicon Valley semiconductor startup Ethernovia has raised over $90 million in a Series B financing round to accelerate the development and production of its Ethernet-based packet processor platform, aimed at real-time “physical AI” workloads across vehicles, robots, and industrial intelligent machines.
The round was led by Maverick Silicon, with participation from Socratic Partners, Conduit Capital, and CDIB-TEN Capital. Ethernovia said existing backers also invested additional capital, including Porsche SE, Qualcomm Ventures, and Fall Line Capital.
Ethernovia is building a new class of high-performance automotive and edge packet processors intended to function as the data backbone for next-generation software-defined autonomy. The company positions its technology as a deterministic, Ethernet-based architecture that can move, process, and orchestrate massive volumes of real-time sensor, vision, and AI traffic at the edge, where latency and predictability are critical for control systems.
According to the company, its packet processor family is designed to aggregate, route, and manage high-bandwidth data streams with deterministic latency and power efficiency, while reducing system complexity, weight, and cost. Ethernovia said the processors support programmable data paths and scalable Ethernet architectures spanning vehicles and mobility systems, enabling software-defined platforms that can evolve via over-the-air updates while maintaining safety-critical performance.
Ethernovia said it will use the Series B proceeds to accelerate development and production of its next-generation packet processor family, expand software and systems capabilities for flexible, programmable networking, and support customer engagements across automotive, robotics, and industrial end markets.
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“The industry is entering the era of physical AI—where intelligence must sense, reason and act in the real world with predictable, real-time performance. Legacy in-vehicle and industrial networks were never designed for AI-driven workloads. However, our packet processor platform is purpose-built to eliminate these constraints, enabling zonal and centralized architectures that scale autonomy and dramatically simplify vehicle system design.”
Ramin Shirani, CEO and Co-Founder, Ethernovia
“As autonomous systems become more complex, latency, power efficiency and architectural flexibility are no longer optional—they are essential. Ethernovia has fundamentally reimagined the nervous system of intelligent machines with its packet processing platform, solving a critical networking bottleneck in automotive, robotics and industrial AI.”
Kenneth Safar, Managing Director, Maverick Silicon
“Ethernovia is addressing one of the most important infrastructure challenges facing physical and edge AI today. They enable OEMs to simplify system design while supporting scalable, software-defined platforms that can evolve over time. We see a strong demand across automotive, robotics and industrial markets – and this investment reflects our confidence in the company’s ability to become an important technology provider in the space.”
Rick Clemmer, Founding Partner, Socratic Partners
