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Tendrils closes $30 million seed round to build a general-purpose processor capable of running thousands of cores in parallel
Tendrils, a Cambridge-based semiconductor startup founded in 2025 by CEO Nils Cremer and co-founders T6 and Hugo McNally, closed a $30 million (≈€26 million) seed round on November 11. The round was led by Benchmark, with participation from Visionaries Club, the UK Sovereign AI Fund, FR8, Antimatter, Cloudberry VC, Conviction, Embassy Ventures, and SV Angels—alongside several angel investors.
The company is developing a novel processor architecture designed for general-purpose computing, capable of running thousands of cores in parallel. Built on the Interaction Network computing model, the architecture treats programs as networks of interconnected nodes—each executing independently and concurrently—to break free from the constraints of traditional shared mutable memory and linear instruction sequences.
Complementing the hardware effort, Tendrils is building Vine, an open-source programming language heavily inspired by Rust’s syntax, aimed at lowering the barrier to porting software to this parallel-first architecture.
The company notes that while GPUs have become ubiquitous for large-scale numerical computation, CPUs remain critically relied upon for irregular workloads—such as AI agents executing code or retrieving documents.
Jack Altman, General Partner at Benchmark and co-founder of Lattice, will join Tendrils’ board of directors.
The company is developing a novel processor architecture designed for general-purpose computing, capable of running thousands of cores in parallel. Built on the Interaction Network computing model, the architecture treats programs as networks of interconnected nodes—each executing independently and concurrently—to break free from the constraints of traditional shared mutable memory and linear instruction sequences.
Complementing the hardware effort, Tendrils is building Vine, an open-source programming language heavily inspired by Rust’s syntax, aimed at lowering the barrier to porting software to this parallel-first architecture.
The company notes that while GPUs have become ubiquitous for large-scale numerical computation, CPUs remain critically relied upon for irregular workloads—such as AI agents executing code or retrieving documents.
Jack Altman, General Partner at Benchmark and co-founder of Lattice, will join Tendrils’ board of directors.
