Sridharan Mani, founder & chief executive, Aheesa Digital Innovations
It has plans to raise around $10 million for commercial expansion, which includes performance tuning, scaling pilot orders and volume production around the end of the first quarter of 2027.
Sridharan Mani , founder and chief executive of the startup said they worked with several original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), starting from the design stage itself and validating the chips for the custom applications of the customers. Currently, we are working with a few customers to evaluate our solution, give that feedback and then include some of their feedback into the chip,” he said. The Chennai-based startup, founded by a group of senior industry leaders, builds semiconductor chips (system-on-chip) for telecom, networking, and communications applications, and recently tested and validated its chip design prototype during its first manufacturing run, known as a tape-out in the industry. It is also developing business teams to market its chips to original equipment manufacturers, starting with a broadband chip used in the home broadband device. “Several OEMs worked with us during the design phase.