Bengaluru headquartered fabless semiconductor startup company BigEndian Semiconductors has recently raised $3 million in a seed funding round led by Vertex Ventures SEA & India. The funding round also witnessed the participation of other strategic investors, including industry leaders.

The semiconductor maker company BigEndian was estatblished in 2024 by Kumar, Renuka Prasad, Harpreet Wadhawan, Dinesh Annayya, Kanagaraju Ponnusamy, and Jansen Cheng.

This startup is the first company who is making surveillance system-on-chip (SoC) for surveillance cameras for enterprise and consumer applications.

The company is willing to utilize these fresh proceeds to strengthen its engineering team, enhance research and development, and scale operations to meet the growing demand for advanced surveillance technology in India and globally.

The co-founder and CEO of BigEndian Sunil Kumar said, "This investment enables us to accelerate our journey of disrupting the value chain with open, secure, and collaborative technology. Besides our SoCs, we are also building an advanced, truly Indian ecosystem with upstream and downstream innovations, which would be transformative in the nascent Indian semiconductors industry.

The managing partner of Vertex Ventures SEA & India, Ben Mathias mentioned that, the realignment of electronics supply chains has created a unique opportunity for India to emerge as a global leader in semiconductors. They expressed excitement about being part of this macro trend, beginning with their investment in BigEndian. They noted that BigEndian's approach to developing a surveillance SoC aligns well with the increasing global demand for advanced security solutions, and they believe that the founding team has all the qualities necessary for BigEndian to become a future leader in the global semiconductor industry.