Lausanne, Switzerland – Swiss startup Corintis said it had raised $24 million in a Series A funding round to expand its liquid cooling technology for computer chips used in artificial intelligence applications. The round was led by BlueYard Capital and included participation from Founderful, Acequia Capital, Celsius Industries and XTX Ventures, the company said.
The Lausanne-based company develops microfluidic cooling systems that channel liquid directly through tiny pathways inside chips, which it says can remove heat up to three times more efficiently than conventional cooling methods. Corintis also plans to open multiple offices in the United States to serve its American customers, while maintaining engineering operations in Munich, Germany.
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, who serves as chairman of venture capital firm Walden International, joined the board alongside Geoff Lyon, former founder and CEO of liquid-cooling company CoolIT. The startup said the appointments strengthen the link between chip design, manufacturing and cooling.
“Cooling is one of the biggest challenges for next-generation chips,” Tan said in a statement. “Corintis is fast becoming an industry leader in advanced semiconductor cooling solutions to address the thermal bottleneck.”
Corintis co-founder and CEO Remco van Erp said the company’s systems are designed to adapt to the specific layout of each chip, optimising the flow of coolant to critical regions. “Thermal engineers need to pull a rabbit out of a hat on a daily basis to make sure chips don’t overheat and break, and that’s where Corintis comes in,” he said.
The company said its platform uses co-designed microfluidic cooling with proprietary simulation and manufacturing software, and can be deployed either as a drop-in replacement for existing liquid-cooling systems or integrated directly with chips.
Corintis’ technology has been trialled in collaboration with Microsoft, the startup said, demonstrating improved cooling performance for servers running high-demand AI workloads.
The startup was founded in 2022 by van Erp, Chief Operating Officer Sam Harrison and scientific adviser Professor Elison Matioli, based on research at Switzerland’s Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). To date, it has raised $33.4 million, including pre-seed rounds, according to the company.
David Byrd, general partner at BlueYard Capital, said demand for compute in AI applications was pushing chips to unprecedented power densities. “Corintis is unlocking the next wave of performance by making cooling a design feature, not an afterthought,” he said.
Corintis’ microfluidic platform includes Glacierware, software to automate cooling system design, a copper-based manufacturing facility for cold plates and the Therminator platform, which allows simulation of next-generation chips to validate cooling solutions before production.
The company said the funding will help scale manufacturing capacity and expand its workforce, positioning it to address thermal constraints that limit AI and high-performance computing.
