Corintis raises USD 24 million to accelerate chip cooling innovation
Tech
29 September 2025
Corintis co-founders Sam Harrison (COO) and Remco van Erp (CEO), who are leading the company’s mission to bring microfluidic chip cooling to mass production. | © Corintis
Lausanne-based Corintis has closed a USD 24 million Series A funding round to ramp up production of its microfluidic cooling technology, positioning itself to tackle one of the most pressing challenges in the AI era.
Corintis, the Lausanne-based deeptech start-up ranked first in the 2025 Top 100 Swiss Startup Awards, has raised USD 24 million in a Series A financing round. The funds will allow the company to scale production of its microfluidic cooling systems and expand internationally, with new offices planned in the United States and Munich, Germany.
The round was led by BlueYard Capital, with participation from Founderful, Acequia Capital, Celsius Industries, XTX Ventures and others. With this new investment, Corintis has raised a total of USD 33.4 million to date. As part of the round, Lip-Bu Tan, Chairman of Walden International and incoming CEO of Intel, has joined the board of directors, alongside Geoff Lyon, former CEO and founder of CoolIT. Their expertise strengthens Corintis’s positioning at the intersection of semiconductor design, manufacturing, and advanced cooling solutions.
Breakthrough collaboration with Microsoft
The announcement follows a major breakthrough achieved earlier this week in collaboration with Microsoft. The two companies demonstrated an in-chip microfluidic cooling system that removed heat three times more effectively than state-of-the-art technologies. Shared by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, the result highlights the potential of Corintis’s approach to unlock new levels of computing performance.
“Cooling is one of the biggest challenges for next-generation chips,” said Lip-Bu Tan. “Corintis is fast becoming the industry leader in advanced semiconductor cooling solutions to address the thermal bottleneck, as made evident by its growing customer list.”
Founded in 2021 as a spin-off from EPFL, Corintis was co-founded by Dr. Remco van Erp (CEO), Sam Harrison (COO) and Prof. Elison Matioli (Scientific Adviser). The company has already manufactured more than 10,000 cooling systems, deployed in data centers operating on leading-edge AI chips.
