Press Release

June 20, 2022
J-Startup “ArchiTek” raises approximately 1.18 billion JPY in Series C round of funding

ArchiTek Corporation (Head office: Osaka, Japan, Shuichi Takada, CEO, hereinafter
called “ArchiTek”) announced that the Company has raised approximately 1.18 billion yen
in a Series C round of funding through a third-party allotment of new shares.
■Use of Proceeds
ArchiTek has developed an edge AI processor based on its own original architecturethat realizes AI processing and image/voice processing at the edge in a single processor,
satisfying at the same time the four requirements of "high performance, low power
consumption, low cost, and flexibility". The purpose of the funding is to cover mask
manufacturing costs for mass production, costs of IP (intellectual property) for circuits
produced by other companies to be built-in AiOnIc®, and related software development
costs.
The company plans to start selling AiOnIc® during the next fiscal year. At that time, inaddition to selling chips as parts, we plan to release camera modules and single-board
computers equipped with AiOnIc®, and related software. In the pursuit of realizing thoseplans, we are developing our products so that much more users can use them even on asmall scale.
■Series C Round Funding Underwriters
The underwriters of this round are from among the investors' shareholders of theSeries A and B rounds, existing investors of Mirai Creation Fund and two other companies,
new six corporate investors and one angel investor, and our company management. This
round of funding brings ArchiTek's total funding to over 2.1 billion yen.

【Date and amount raised】
・1,001 million yen

March 11, 2022

・112 million yen

April 22, 2022

・65 million yen

May 31, 2022

Press Release【Series C Round Financing Underwriters】【Existing investors】
SMBC Trust Bank Ltd. (Kozo Ogino, President & CEO)SPARX Asset Management(The Mirai Creation Fund III)

Co., Ltd. (Shuhei Abe,President & Chief ExecutiveOfficer), acting as fundmanager of the Mirai Creation
Fund IIIGK Tech Accelerator Ventures

Masatoshi Oba, Investment* Tech Accelerator No.1 Investment Limited Partnership

Partner

Mitsubishi UFJ Capital Co., Ltd.

Shinsuke Sakamoto, President* Mitsubishi UFJ Capital VI, Limited Partnership【New investors】
ITEC Hankyu Hanshin Strategic Partners

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust
Investment Co., Ltd.
(Masahiko Akutsu, CEO),acting as fund manager

SMBC Venture Capital

Akira Ochiai,
President & Chief Executive
Officer

360ip Japan Pte. Ltd.

Asashi Fujimori,* 360ip® Japan Fund 1

Representative Director

SBI Investment Co., Ltd.

Yoshitaka Kitao,
Representative Director

Nippon Venture Capital Co., Ltd.

Minoru Tagaya, President

Other private investors

One investor

Other corporate investors

One corporate【Others】
ArchiTek management

Five persons【Note】 * Underwritten by the fund (unlimited liability partner) which is managed by eachcompany

Press Release■About ArchiTek
ArchiTek is one of J-Startups which developed the unique edge AI processor AiOnIc® (*referred below) which is capable of executing smartly AI processing and image/audio
processing around the user (on edge) while being compact and low in power
consumption. The processor enables detecting and processing in real time necessary
information and data through AI, image, audio processing. We aim to market globally theprocessor as a DX platform that supports safe and secure human life.
* AiOnIc® enables building a compact and low-cost embedded system as it being
capable of AI processing and image/audio processing on a single chip. Inaddition, since the cooling fan is not required, it is less likely to cause physicalproblems, and battery-powered feature increases the flexibility of its installation
location as well.

【Company profile】
Company Name

ArchiTek Corporation

Headquarter

1-1-29, KitaHorie, Nishi-ku, Osaka, Japan

Representative

Shuichi Takada, CEOBusiness Outline

Development of logic circuit and software development of edge
AI and image processing processor

Company URL

https://architek.ai/【For inquiry】
ArchiTek Corporation
Tatsuya Fujinaka, Managing Director and CFO
Email ： pico@architek.co.jp