Fractile
Chip-first frontier AI company building inference hardware to run large AI models far faster
About Fractile
Fractile is a UK AI chip company founded in 2022 by Oxford AI and robotics PhD Walter Goodwin. It designs full-stack chips and systems for AI inference that keep data on the chip instead of moving it between processor and separate memory, aiming to run very large models at thousands of tokens per second over long contexts. The company works from London and Bristol, and says its first chips are planned for data-centre deployment in 2027.
Founder
Walter Goodwin
Founder & CEO
Founded Fractile in 2022 after completing a PhD in AI and robotics at the University of Oxford.
- AI · Infrastructure & Models
- London, UK
- Series C+
- 2022
Funding rounds
| Date | Round | Amount | Lead investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Series C+ | Undisclosed | Thrive Capital, Founders Fund, Lightspeed, Redpoint | |
| Series B | Undisclosed | Accel, Factorial Funds, Founders Fund | |
| Seed | Undisclosed | Oxford Science Enterprises |
