Samsung invests in AI security platform Axiado

Samsung Electronics Co. said on Thursday it invested in the Series C funding round of Axiado, a US-based artificial intelligence (AI) security platform. 

Axiado raised $60 million led by Maverick Silicon with participation from Samsung Catalyst Fund, Atreides Management, and Crosslink Capital.

According to Axiado, this investment will fuel the company’s growth and continued innovation in AI-driven cybersecurity technologies redefining platform security and energy efficiency for accelerated computing in AI data centers.

The size of the Samsung Catalyst Fund's investment was not disclosed. 

Axiado is a hardware-anchored AI-driven platform security solutions company. It deploys a novel, ransomware, supply chain, side-channel in the ecosystem of cloud data centers.

The company offers a new processor called the trusted control/compute unit (TCU) that redefines security from the ground up.

Axiado will use the Series C funding to drive continued innovation, strengthen strategic partnerships with leading platform vendors like NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, and Arm, and accelerate go-to-market initiatives with OEM and ODM partners to drive Axiado solutions into the data centers. 

Write to Jeong-Soo Hwang at hjs@hankyung.com