Stathera announced that it has closed an oversubscribed $55 million Series B financing round. The round was led by new investor Maverick Silicon, with continued participation from Celesta Capital, BDC Capital, MediaTek Innovation Fund, TXC Corporation, and Ultratech Capital Partners. The financing brings Stathera’s total funding to $75 million.
Stathera is a fabless semiconductor company developing silicon timing solutions for modern electronics, including mobile devices, IoT systems, communications infrastructure, and AI data centers.
The company said the funding positions it to become an independent alternative for AI data center and hyperscale customers as the silicon timing market consolidates around a dominant incumbent.
Stathera plans to use the funding to scale mass production of its GEN2 silicon timing portfolio and accelerate development of its next-generation platform for AI data centers.
The company will also expand its engineering and commercial teams and establish a Silicon Valley office to engage leading AI, data center, and hyperscale customers.
Stathera’s GEN2 32.768 kHz product line, built on the company’s proprietary microfabrication technology, is moving into mass production.
The company’s broader GEN2 portfolio is also sampling with Tier 1 OEMs.
The 32.768 kHz reference is one of the highest-volume timing sockets in electronics and is used in products such as smartphones, wearables, and IoT devices.
Stathera said its silicon oscillators are manufactured in standard semiconductor fabs and are designed to replace legacy quartz crystals.
The company said its technology can deliver a footprint up to 85% smaller than standard SMD quartz packages, along with higher reliability, greater shock and vibration resilience, and no external load capacitors.
These capabilities are intended to give designers more placement flexibility while supporting high-precision, low-power timing for mobile, wearable, and IoT devices.
Stathera is also targeting the AI data center timing market, where synchronization, jitter, and resilience affect the performance of GPU clusters, networking infrastructure, switches, and optical interconnects.
The company said communications, enterprise, and data center applications represent the fastest-growing category in the $11 billion annual timing market.
Industry estimates cited by Stathera put the AI data center time-synchronization opportunity at a cumulative $1.5 billion by 2030 as requirements move from microseconds toward nanoseconds.
With the Series B funding, Stathera is launching development of its GEN3 platform.
GEN3 is being designed from the ground up based on Stathera’s proprietary DualMode architecture for the performance and reliability requirements of AI, communications, enterprise, and data center applications.
After several years of foundational work and intellectual property development, Stathera is mobilizing a dedicated GEN3 program and targeting first customer samples in 2028.
Stathera is headquartered in Montreal and is backed by deep-technology and strategic semiconductor investors.
KEY QUOTES:
“Timing is the foundation of modern electronics, and AI has elevated it from a humble component into critical infrastructure. AI data center performance is increasingly limited not by raw compute, but by how quickly and coherently data can move and remain synchronized across tens of thousands of processors and the networking connecting them – synchronization that must run on precision timing. For decades that timing has meant quartz, but Stathera is using semiconductor technology to move this foundational hardware to a new era of silicon. As the silicon timing market has continued consolidating around a single supplier, customers are telling us they want an independent, next-generation alternative. This is exactly what we are building as we scale Stathera’s GEN2 silicon timing into mass production today and build our next-gen product, architected from the ground up for AI.”
George Xereas, CEO and Co-Founder of Stathera
“Traditional quartz-based timing has powered the electronics industry for decades, but modern AI and edge infrastructure are creating new requirements around size, power, stability, and synchronization at scale. MEMS-based timing offers a fundamentally different approach, with advantages in integration, resilience, and programmability. That is what Stathera is building. As timing becomes mission-critical to AI infrastructure, the market needs a next-generation, independent leader. We are proud to lead this round and to partner with George Xereas, CEO and the Stathera team as they scale.”
Josh Miner, Principal at Maverick Silicon
“Silicon-based timing is emerging as a compelling solution to meet the precision and scale that connected systems demand, today and for the next generation. We’re proud to back Stathera and pleased with how far the team has come. Their progress demonstrates clear technical leadership and execution and reflects the strength of Canada’s world-class engineering talent and potential for further industry-shifting deep tech investments.”
Nicholas Brathwaite, Founding Managing Partner of Celesta Capital
