Ubitium raises $14M to bring universal computing to physical AI

Semiconductor startup Ubitium has raised $14 million in new seed funding to develop its universal processor for autonomous machines and other physical AI applications. The round was led by Ibex Investors, with participation from OpenOcean, existing investors KBC Focus Fund, Runa Capital and Inflection, and Florian Seibel, co-founder and co-CEO of Quantum Systems, who invested personally. The investment brings Ubitium's total seed funding to $18 million since its founding in 2024 and follows the development of its first chip, which demonstrated signal processing, AI inference and real-time control using a single processor architecture. Ubitium is developing a processor for physical AI applications, including robots, drones, vehicles and industrial equipment. These systems need to process sensor data, make decisions and control physical movements in real time, functions typically handled by separate specialised processors. This requires data transfers between chips, increasing system com