Edge AI chip startup Acrab raises $130M Series B as GΞLIX 1 heads to production

Acrab, a Singapore-based AI compute infrastructure company, has completed a $130 million Series B round with Vertex Growth among the investors, according to DealStreetAsia as reported by Chinese tech media QbitAI. The round pushes Acrab's cumulative funding past $480 million.

The new capital will go toward expanding production capacity, building out the technology ecosystem, and accelerating development of the next-generation AI compute platform.

Founded in 2024, Acrab unveiled its first-generation edge AI chip, GΞLIX 1, and the Agent Box personal AI center less than a month ago; the first-generation products have already entered customer onboarding and are moving toward scaled production — an unusually fast pace for a chip startup.

According to the company, the GΞLIX chip was taped out in November 2025, passed 12 key validations within six hours of power-on, and booted Linux and Android within 24 hours; the chip and Agent Box were formally launched in July.

GΞLIX 1 is built around a claimed 700 TOPS of peak compute, with unified memory, CPU-NPU co-design, prefill processing and agent orchestration in a single platform. Acrab's own tests report a prefill speed of 1,416 tokens per second running a Gemma 26B A4B model with a 40K-token context cache, which the company says is seven times faster than leading edge AI compute platforms — figures that still need third-party verification.

Agent Box is positioned as a Personal AI Center: a desktop device that runs hundred-billion-parameter models locally with long-term memory, multimodal interaction, tool calling and agent orchestration, while doubling as a reference system for AI PCs, AI NAS, automotive, industrial equipment and robots.

Acrab's thesis is that the cloud compute market is already crowded, and that as models compress and agents multiply, high-frequency, privacy-sensitive, low-latency tasks will shift to the edge — where devices will need a new compute foundation rather than just a faster NPU. CEO Ken Phua, a former co-CEO of Arm China, brings server-class chip and systems software experience to the bet.

The real test ahead is which mass-production devices GΞLIX 1 lands in, when the first customers appear, and whether shipments become sustained — the difference between technical validation and commercial validation.