SiMa.ai Recognized on Fast Company’s Annual List of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2025

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SiMa.ai, the software-centric, embedded edge machine learning system-on-chip (MLSoC) company, has been named to Fast Company’s prestigious list of the world’s Most Innovative Companies for 2025. Earning the number six spot in the Computing category, this honor is presented to companies across the globe that are moving the world’s technology, businesses and culture forward.

“We are thrilled to be recognized as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies for 2025, which is a testament to the dedication, drive, and innovation of our exceptional team,” said Krishna Rangasayee, CEO and founder of SiMa.ai. “SiMa.ai is redefining the Edge-AI landscape by delivering the first true end-to-end solution for Next Generation Edge-AI. Unlike traditional, static edge solutions, our ONE platform empowers enterprises to rapidly build and deploy high-performance GenAI applications—driving real-time AI and advanced autonomy. With Edgematic’s intuitive visual development and Modalix’s power-efficient hardware, we eliminate complexity and accelerate innovation at the edge.”

Since 2008, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies list has been the definitive source for recognizing organizations that are transforming industries and shaping society, from the largest companies in the world to startups with just a few employees. The international award is open to businesses around the world.

This award by Fast Company follows significant business and technical milestones for SiMa.ai over the past year.

• In July 2024, SiMa.ai announced its partnership with TRUMPF to equip several laser systems of TRUMPF with AI technology, including systems for welding, cutting, and marking, as well as power metal 3D printers.
• In September, SiMa.ai also unveiled its MLSoC Modalix device, the industry’s first purpose-built platform that integrates multi-modal applications using Transformers, LLMs, LMMs, and GenAI at the edge, along with traditional computer vision algorithms while delivering power efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
• In November, SiMa.ai announced the availability of Palette Edgematic on the AWS Marketplace to extend its ONE Platform for Edge AI to more ML developers and companies to simplify and test new ML applications at the edge.
• The company also expanded its solution to serve the automotive industry through a new strategic collaboration with Synopsys that will accelerate the development of workload-specific silicon and software needed to power artificial intelligence-enabled features in next-generation automobiles.
• Earlier this year, SiMa.ai started shipping engineering samples of its Modalix 50 TOPs device, successfully implemented the DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B on its ONE Platform for Edge AI, and announced its MLSoC Modalix System-on-Module to accelerate multi-modal and GenAI applications at the edge.

To learn more about open positions and career opportunities at SiMa.ai, please visit https://sima.ai/careers/.

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About SiMa.ai

SiMa.ai is the software-centric, embedded edge machine learning system-on-chip (MLSoC) company. SiMa.ai delivers ONE Platform for Edge AI that flexibly adjusts to any framework, network, model, sensor, or modality. Edge ML applications that run completely on the SiMa.ai MLSoC and Modalix product family see a tenfold increase in performance and energy efficiency, bringing higher fidelity intelligence to ML use cases spanning computer vision to generative AI, in minutes. With SiMa.ai, customers unlock new paths to revenue and significant cost savings to innovate at the edge across industrial manufacturing, retail, aerospace, defense, agriculture, and healthcare. SiMa.ai was founded in 2018, has raised $270M, and is backed by Fidelity Management & Research Company, Maverick Capital, Point72, MSD Partners, VentureTech Alliance, and more.

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