Nuvia
Company

Last deal

$240M

Amount

Series B

Stage

24.09.2020

Date

2

all rounds

$293M

Total amount

date founded

Financing round

General

About Company
NUVIA is an international company that supports industrial clients in highly regulated environments.

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founded date

01.01.2019

Number of employees

Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Series B

IPO status

Private

Description

NUVIA develops semiconductor components and processors for computing applications, focusing on improving performance, power efficiency, and scalability. In 2021, NUVIA was acquired by Qualcomm, complementing their technology roadmap for the 5G era.
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Their latest funding was raised on 24.09.2020. Their latest investor Nepenthe. Their latest round Series B

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People

Founders
3
Manu Gulati
Manu Gulati

Manu Gulati

Manu Gulati is the SVP of Silicon Engineering at NUVIA. Prior to co-founding NUVIA, Manu was the lead SoC Architect for consumer hardware at Google, playing a key role in defining the company’s silicon and product roadmaps. Before joining Google, Manu spent eight years at Apple as the lead SoC architect responsible for numerous Apple leading-edge mobile SoCs across a range of devices. Before joining Apple, nearly a decade at Broadcom holding a range of senior SoC engineering roles. Manu started his career at AMD and 8x8 and has over 58 issued patents to date. Manu holds a BSEE from I.I.T. Dehli and an MCSE from UC Irvine.

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Nuvia
Nuvia

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1

Manu Gulati

Gerard Williams III
Gerard Williams III

Gerard Williams III

Gerard Williams III is the CEO of NUVIA. Prior to co-founding NUVIA, he was a Senior Director at Apple and Chief CPU Architect for nearly a decade with responsibilities for a range of leading-edge CPUs and SoCs across a broad array of devices. Before joining Apple, Gerard spent over 10 years at ARM, as an ARM Fellow, and serving on the ARM Architectural Review and Technical Advisory Boards. While at ARM, he served as a technical advisor for the ARM architecture and CPU development to many key ARM partners. Gerard began his career with tenures at Intel and Texas Instruments. He holds 38 patents to date with multiple pending and holds an MSEE from the University of Missouri Rolla and a BSE from Arkansas State University.

current job

Qualcomm
Qualcomm

count Of Investments

1

Gerard Williams III

John Bruno
John Bruno

John Bruno

John Bruno is the SVP of System Engineering at NUVIA and has over 23 years of industry experience. Prior to co-founding NUVIA, he was a System Architect at Google, driving such areas as SoC definition and competitive performance and power analysis. Before joining Google, John spent five years at Apple in a similar role in the company’s platform architecture group where he founded Apple’s silicon competitive analysis team. John started his career in 1996 as an ASIC designer at ATI Technologies Inc. where he climbed the ranks to become the ASIC team leader responsible for multiple mobile GPUs and integrated chipsets. After AMD’s acquisition of ATI, John became the Chief Engineer for the Trinity Fusion APU. John has a BaSC in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto.

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Nuvia
Nuvia

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1

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Employee Profiles
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Navin Chaddha

Navin Chaddha

Board of Directors

John Bruno

John Bruno

Senior Vice-President of System Engineering

Manu Gulati

Manu Gulati

Senior Vice-President of Silicon Engineering

Gerard Williams III

Gerard Williams III

Chief Executive Officer

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