Mueon Emerges From Stealth with $15.5M Seed to Redefine Data Centers for the AI Era

The company's modular Cubelets™ optimize compute, memory, power, and thermal management to unlock exponential performance improvements 

PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Mueon, a company developing semiconductor-based systems for AI and hyperscale computing, today announced its launch from stealth with $15.5M in seed funding and the debut of Cubelets™, stackable, modular components designed to redefine compute efficiency at scale. Intel Capital led the round with participation from Geodesic Alliance Fund and Oregon Venture Fund. Intel Capital Managing Director Srini Ananth will join Mueon's board of directors.

As adoption of generative AI accelerates, the world's data centers are approaching breaking points in cost, power, and cooling. The International Energy Agency projects that by 2030, data centers could consume up to 10% of global electricity demand. Meanwhile, hyperscale operators are forecast to invest more than $200 billion annually in new capacity by 2027, much of it constrained by power-hungry rack-based systems. Traditional architectures create hotspots, drive up costs, and restrict scalability, making the need for a new design clear.

Mueon addresses these challenges with Cubelets™, compact building blocks that provide a platform to tightly integrate compute, memory, power delivery, and thermal management. The architecture enables up to 10x improvements in density, energy efficiency, and faster deployment, while remaining fully compatible with today's AI and cloud software stacks. By enabling clusters that scale linearly with demand, Cubelets™ reduce upfront capital expenditures, simplify deployment, and minimize the need for massive cooling and power infrastructure.

"Mueon was founded to rethink the system building blocks of the data center from the ground up," said Wilfred Gomes, co-founder and CEO of Mueon Corporation. "Cubelets™ give our partners a new unit of compute by bringing together compute, memory, and power delivery, thermals, delivering efficiency and cost savings that today's data centers urgently need."

"The Mueon team is reimagining data center design at the fundamental level," said Srini Ananth, Managing Director at Intel Capital. "Their modular approach offers customers a practical path to scale AI systems with better economics and sustainability, while Mueon's deep technical expertise and vision for data center efficiency could redefine how AI infrastructure is built globally."

Cubelets at a Glance:
Mueon's vision is to democratize high-performance computing by making infrastructure more flexible and sustainable. Its modular approach allows cloud providers, enterprises, and research institutions to deploy dense compute clusters in locations and environments that were previously cost- or power-prohibitive.

To enable this vision, Mueon is closely working with industry, government, and academia partners to deliver:

• All-in-one integration: Compute, memory, power, and thermals in a single modular unit
• Exponential efficiency: Up to 10x gains in density, energy savings, and deployment speed
• Sustainability built in: Lower cooling and power demands, cutting both costs and environmental footprint
• Seamless adoption: Works with existing AI and cloud software stacks

"Mueon's Cubelets™ architecture has unlocked new possibilities for d-Matrix. Combined with d-Matrix's digital in-memory compute technology, it's helping us build a new class of smaller, denser infrastructure tailored for AI workloads that require ultra-low latency," said Sudeep Bhoja, founder and CTO at d-Matrix. "This modular approach has allowed us to experiment faster, optimize performance, and deploy AI models at scales that were previously impractical."

"For decades, large-scale data centers have been constrained by power and cooling limits," said Subramanian Iyer, Distinguished Professor at UCLA and Director of UCLA CHIPS, former Director of the NAPMP, and Ex-IBM Fellow. "Mueon's approach leverages the scale down and scale out capability of advanced packaging with innovative system architectures that can make the infamous 'memory wall' a relic of the past. This will result in a versatile HPC platform with a high degree of modularity and extensibility, and one where most of the energy is spent in compute rather than communication and power delivery inefficiencies."

What's Next
The funding will accelerate prototype development, system scaling, and top engineering hires. Mueon is initially focused on AI inference and training workloads that are constrained by today's rack-based systems, with strong demand for deploying large models at scale at lower cost and power. The company is collaborating with leading fabrication, manufacturing, and foundry partners to validate Cubelets™ and bring the architecture to market.

About Mueon
Mueon Corporation is pioneering exponential computing by rethinking data center architecture. Its core innovation, Cubelets™, replaces racks of servers and cables with modular, stackable units that combine compute, memory, power delivery, and thermal management – reducing space, improving efficiency, and simplifying integration.

Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, the Mueon team brings together experts in CPU, GPU, memory architecture, system Integration, Power Delivery, Thermals, and IO design, leaders who have shipped billions of units and helped shape three decades of Moore's Law. For more information, visit: https://mueon.com/.

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