Axiado wins Gold at 2026 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards for ai-driven infrastructure security. Axiado Corporation has been awarded the Gold honour in the AI Security Solution category at the 2026 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards, recognising its innovative silicon-based approach to securing modern data centre infrastructure. The award highlights Axiado's Trusted Control/Compute Unit (TCU), a system-on-chip designed to protect the infrastructure control plane of AI and cloud-based data centres. The recognition comes at a time when global investment in AI infrastructure is accelerating rapidly, increasing the need for more advanced and resilient security frameworks. As AI workloads continue to expand, data centres are becoming larger and more complex, with projections indicating significant growth in energy consumption and infrastructure scale over the coming years. In India, investments in hyperscale data centres are expected to exceed $10 billion by the end of the decade, driven by increasing adoption of artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and digital services. Axiado's solution addresses a critical gap in traditional security models, which often rely on legacy components not designed for modern AI environments. By embedding AI capabilities directly into silicon, the company enables security to operate at the hardware level, below the operating system and hypervisor layers. The Trusted Control/Compute Unit integrates multiple security and management functions into a single chip, including root-of-trust, platform attestation, system monitoring, and baseboard management capabilities. This architecture allows continuous analysis of system behaviour, including firmware integrity, user access patterns, workload activity, and hardware signals such as temperature and voltage. The platform is designed to detect anomalies early, including advanced threats such as side-channel attacks that attempt to compromise systems during boot processes or runtime operations. By operating at the hardware layer, it enhances visibility and control across the entire infrastructure stack. In addition to security, the system incorporates AI-driven efficiency features. These include dynamic thermal management and intelligent performance scaling, which optimise energy usage and cooling requirements based on workload conditions. Testing indicates that such capabilities can deliver substantial cost savings in large-scale deployments. The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards recognise organisations that demonstrate measurable innovation and leadership in cybersecurity. Axiado's recognition reflects a broader industry shift toward hardware-rooted security architectures as enterprises and cloud providers scale AI infrastructure globally. The company continues to work with leading technology partners to advance secure, efficient, and scalable solutions for next-generation data centres.

Axiado corporation raises $100M in Series C+ funding. To advance platform security and system management solutions for AI data centers. Axiado Corp., a provider of security and management solutions for modern digital infrastructure, announced it successfully raised $100+ million in an oversubscribed Series C+ funding round, led by Maverick Silicon with participation from Prosperity7 Ventures, Orbit Venture Partners, Crosslink Capital, Nosterra Ventures and others.This investment will fuel the company's rapid growth and continued innovation in AI-driven, hardware-anchored products and solutions that are redefining platform security, system management, and energy efficiency for AI data centers, networking, telecom and the edge. Axiado's Trusted Control/Compute Unit (TCU) is redefining data center management control with security for the age of agentic AI. Axiado's TCU brings intelligence and trust to the platform level, combining secure control, compute, and AI-driven monitoring within a single chip. The TCU's continuous sensing, processing, and autonomous action capabilities provide the foundation required for intelligent, secure, resilient, and efficient self-managing systems in next generation cloud and data center infrastructures. "The strong response to our Series C+ round is a clear validation from our customers and partners that AI-driven, hardware-anchored security is now a foundational requirement for today's data centers," said Gopi Sirineni, founder, president and CEO, Axiado. Proceeds from the oversubscribed Series C+ funding will be used to expand sales, marketing, and support teams, as well as to invest in the development of next-generation platforms. The funding will also fuel continued innovation, strengthen strategic partnerships with industry leaders, and accelerate go-to-market initiatives with OEM and ODM partners to bring Axiado solutions into more data centers worldwide. Recent milestones include doubling headcount in Taiwan and India, growing the overall team by 40% and opening a new office in India, positioning the company for continued global expansion in 2026 and beyond. "As AI workloads continue to transform and push the limits of data center infrastructure, the need for hardware-anchored security has never been greater," said Andrew Homan, managing partner, Maverick Silicon. "Axiado's TCU not only protects infrastructure from threats in real time but also helps optimize power and cooling. We're proud to support their mission to build secure, intelligent, and sustainable, AI-ready computing environments." "At Prosperity, we invest in technologies that create the foundation for safe and responsible AI," said Abishek Shukla, MD, Prosperity7 Ventures US. "Axiado's AI-driven TCU architecture and its innovations in secure, energy-aware system management perfectly align with that vision. As AI systems become increasingly autonomous and compute-intensive, Axiado's ability to blend silicon-level trust with intelligent power optimization and system management positions it at the forefront of a more secure and sustainable digital future." Read also: Working together to develop secure server solutions that build on each firm's strengths in advanced server design and AI-driven security, respectively With integration of DRAM, SPI Flash, and eMMC, AX3080 further enhances platform security by eliminating potential attack surfaces, and improving power efficiency