In-Memory ComputingAI AcceleratorsMemory & Storage
Vertical Compute
Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium, Belgium
About Vertical Compute
Vertical Compute is a European deep-tech start-up making chiplets that place vertical columns of data storage directly beside processing cores. The aim is to ease the memory bottleneck in AI, where processors often wait for data to arrive. Its website says the technology blends vertical memory concepts with nano-magnetism. The company lists offices in Leuven, Louvain-la-Neuve, Paris, Grenoble and Nice, and a March 2026 news item on its site reports a raise of 57 million euros.
Vertical Compute was founded in 2024 and is based in Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium. It is listed under In-Memory Computing, AI Accelerators, Memory & Storage. Reported funding is €57M total seed (€20M Jan 2025 + €37M Mar 2026 extension led by Quantonation).
Compute Technologies
- In-Memory Computing
- AI Accelerators
What Vertical Compute works on
In-Memory Computing
In-memory computing does calculations inside or right next to the memory that stores the data, instead of copying the data to a separate processor. It is also called processing-in-memory (PIM) or compute-in-memory.
AI Accelerators
An AI accelerator is a chip, or a part of a chip, designed to run machine learning faster or with less energy than a general-purpose processor. The category includes GPUs, TPUs, neural processing units (NPUs) and chips from many startups.
Memory & Storage
Memory and storage hold the data that processors work on. Memory such as DRAM is fast and loses its contents when power is removed. Storage such as flash (NAND) is slower, cheaper per bit and keeps data without power.
