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Belgium’s Vertical Compute raises €20m seed to tackle AI chips’ memory bottleneck

Launched by Google alumni Sylvain Dubois and imec researcher Sebastien Couet, the startup says it is going after companies like Samsung, Micron and Hynix.

Vertical Compute, a Belgian startup that is developing more efficient chips for AI, has raised an all-equity €20m seed round just three months after launching.
The startup was cofounded by Sylvain Dubois, who previously spent four years working on Google’s semiconductor strategy in San Francisco, and Sebastien Couet, who for the past 10 years led semiconductor programmes at imec, an R&D centre based in Leuven in Belgium, which focuses on nanotechnologies.

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