Investor · 1 deal
Every published round Intel took part in, and every parcel of existing shares it bought off another holder. Deals we hold but haven't published yet are not counted.
Companies Intel has backed in a published round, and companies whose existing shares it bought off another holder.
| Company | What it does | First invested | Rounds | Led |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fleet Space Technologies | 17 Nov 2021, Series B | 1 | 0 |
Fund closes reported for Intel, as distinct from the investments it has made.
Companies Intel has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal Intel did.
| Company | Bought by | Kind | Announced | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No portfolio company of Intel is recorded as having been acquired. | ||||
Companies Intel acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
| Company | Kind | Announced | Price | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mobileye | Acquisition | 2017 | $15.3b | TechCrunch Australia, SmartCompany |
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Pat Gelsinger | CEO (former) | Startup Daily (Fri 24 Apr 2026), SmartCompany (Fri 24 Apr 2026), SmartCompany (Wed 22 Apr 2026), Startup Daily (Mon 24 Apr 2023) |
| Gordon Moore | CEO (former) | Startup Daily, Blackbird Ventures portfolio |
| Aicha Evans | Executive (former) | SmartCompany (Mon 29 Jun 2020), SmartCompany (Wed 16 Jan 2019) |
Stories naming Intel. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Weekly roundup of three Series A raises: chipmaker Syenta (US$26m), insights platform Ideally and battery recycler Renewable Metals, detailing leads, amounts and each company's earlier funding.
Also Startup Daily
Chip startup Syenta raised a Series A led by Playground Global with the National Reconstruction Fund to commercialise its packaging technology and expand into the US; ex-Intel chief Pat Gelsinger joins its board.
Syenta, an ANU spinout in Sydney, has secured $36 million in Series A funding to commercialise its chip packaging technology; Playground Global and the National Reconstruction Fund led, and Pat Gelsinger joins the board.
Australia's aviation regulator has granted Alauda Aeronautics an experimental certificate to fly its Airspeeder Mk4 racing eVTOL with a pilot aboard; Intel, Dell, AWS and Telstra back the series' computing and race-control systems.
PsiQuantum will build a second quantum computer in Chicago with US$500m in tax incentives, after Australian and Queensland government equity in April. Forbes Australia's 30 Under 30 nominations are open.
Also Startup Daily
Crunchbase's analysis finds venture funding for chip startups rebounding in 2024 on AI demand, recapping large recent deals at Black Semiconductor, Tenstorrent, PsiQuantum, Celestial AI, Recogni and Eliyan, plus Astera Labs' IPO.
Also Crunchbase News
Roundup of manufacturing briefs: biotech Imugene's share plan added A$18.2 million, EVOS shifted its Brisbane head office, ANSTO won federal backing for nuclear medicine, CSIRO endowed Wollongong scholarships, plus two chief executive appointments.
Ignition Lane's weekly wrap: Tiger Global's losses and past Australian bets, MilkRun and TradeSquare closures, Cyara's Spearline acquisition, a Co Ventures pre-seed fund, Square Peg's partner promotion and LaunchVic's 30×30 picks.
TechCrunch's transport newsletter rounds up micromobility job cuts at Tier, Spin and Zoomo, Mobileye's IPO filing years after Intel bought it, new backing for Canada Drives and Halo Car, plus Rivian's safety recall.
Proptech CIM has raised a $10 million Series A led by Five V Capital, with Carthona Capital and property executives participating, valuing it above $100 million to fund expansion into Asia and North America.
Ignition Lane's weekly wrap reports falling Australian venture funding, lists several startup raises and fund raises, covers Chargefox's acquisition, Volt's closure, the Zip-Sezzle merger termination, and global tech news.
Also Women's Agenda·Startup Daily·SmartCompany·Techboard·SmartCompany
Company update on MatLogica, a computing-software firm, covering its banking analytics product, a UK innovation grant, a machine learning expansion with Professor Roland Olsson, and a planned September 2022 Series A.
Roundup of CES 2021 highlights: pandemic mask technology, rollable phone screens, BioMilq's lab-grown breast milk and its funding, Mobileye's single-chip lidar, and a suite of new home robots.
Also TechCrunch Venture
Wholesale Investor profiles Voxon Photonics, whose volumetric display projects 3D content viewable without headsets; the company is seeking a pre-IPO equity investment in exchange for a minority stake.
Square Peg co-led a US$9.1 million seed round in AI startup Deci, whose AutoNAC engine optimises deep learning models for hardware, and profiles founders Yonatan Geifman, Joe Elial and Ran El-Yaniv.
Blackbird's investment note announcing its one million dollar seed investment in Melbourne startup Cortical Labs, which is developing computer chips built from mouse and human neurons.
Nvidia is reportedly close to buying chipmaker Mellanox for over US$7 billion, having outbid Intel, but the deal is not yet agreed and remains unconfirmed by the companies.