Lausanne-based Corintis, a semiconductor cooling startup tackling one of the biggest bottlenecks in AI hardware, has raised €20 million in Series A funding, bringing its total capital raised to €28.5 million.
The round was led by BlueYard Capital, with participation from Founderful, Acequia Capital, Celsius Industries, XTX Ventures, and others. The company also plans to open multiple U.S. offices to serve growing demand, alongside a new engineering hub in Munich, Germany.
Cooling for the AI Era
Co-founded in 2021 by Dr. Remco van Erp, Sam Harrison, and Prof. Elison Matioli, Corintis emerged from research at EPFL to solve the thermal challenges of increasingly powerful AI chips.
Instead of traditional copper block cooling, the company uses microfluidic cooling, embedding precisely engineered microscopic channels within chips to target hotspots. This enables 10x better heat extraction while being 50x more efficient than existing solutions.
“Every chip is like a cityscape with billions of transistors. Current cooling designs are blunt instruments. Our approach creates micro-scale channels precisely tailored to each chip — delivering radically better performance in record time.”
— Remco van Erp, Co-founder & CEO of Corintis
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Industry Validation
The startup already counts major U.S. tech firms among its customers and has partnered with Microsoft, recently achieving a breakthrough: in-chip cooling that removes heat 3x more effectively than current solutions while enabling new chip architectures.
“AI’s insatiable demand for compute is pushing chips to unprecedented power densities. Corintis is unlocking the next wave of performance by making cooling a design feature, not an afterthought.”
— David Byrd, General Partner at BlueYard Capital
The company’s Glacierware, Therminator, and advanced copper microfluidic manufacturing lines allow chipmakers to test and deploy cooling solutions rapidly, scaling to over one million units annually by 2026.
Board & Investor Confidence
Following the round, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan and Geoff Lyon (founder of CoolIT) have joined Corintis’ board, adding deep expertise in semiconductor and cooling markets.
“Cooling is one of the biggest challenges for next-gen chips. Corintis is fast becoming the leader in advanced semiconductor cooling.”
— Lip-Bu Tan, CEO of Intel
Scaling for the Future
Corintis has already produced 10,000+ systems, generating eight-figure cumulative revenues since launch. The Series A funding will support team growth from 55 to 70+ employees, expand global operations, and ramp up microfluidic cold plate production.
As AI workloads push GPUs and accelerators to 10x higher power levels compared to early ChatGPT-era chips, Corintis’ technology is poised to become a critical enabler of sustainable, high-performance computing.
About Corintis
Corintis is a Swiss deeptech startup pioneering microfluidic cooling for semiconductors. Its solutions extract 10x more heat at 50x greater efficiency, unlocking the next generation of AI and high-performance computing while reducing energy use and water consumption in data centers.
