# Lemurian Labs

> Lemurian Labs is a Santa Clara AI infrastructure startup building Tachyon, a compiler and runtime intended to let teams run AI workloads across different processors without hardware-specific rewrites. It began with robotics and custom chip plans, then shifted toward software; Tachyon’s public beta is planned for summer 2027.

- **Founded:** 2022
- **Headquarters:** Santa Clara, United States
- **Founders:** Jay Dawani (Co-founder and CEO), Vassil Dimitrov (Co-founder)
- **Products:** Tachyon, PAL (parallel adaptive logarithm), Spatial Processing Unit (SPU)
- **Notable:** Raised $9 million in seed funding in October 2023., Raised a $28 million Series A in December 2025, including previously raised convertible securities., Appointed Kim Polese to its board and Saman Amarasinghe as technical advisor in March 2026.

## Products & services

- **Tachyon** — Compiler and runtime software intended to optimize PyTorch AI workloads across heterogeneous hardware; public beta planned for summer 2027.
- **PAL (parallel adaptive logarithm)** — A proprietary logarithmic number format developed to improve arithmetic efficiency and memory use; public production results are not disclosed.
- **Spatial Processing Unit (SPU)** — A custom AI accelerator architecture pursued during the company’s hardware phase; the company subsequently prioritized software.

## Achievements

- Raised $9 million in seed funding in October 2023.
- Raised a $28 million Series A in December 2025, including previously raised convertible securities.
- Appointed Kim Polese to its board and Saman Amarasinghe as technical advisor in March 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — Kim Polese joined the board and MIT professor Saman Amarasinghe became technical advisor.
- **2025-12** — Announced a $28 million Series A co-led by Pebblebed Ventures and Hexagon.
- **2025-10** — Previewed its software direction at the PyTorch Conference, according to Jay Dawani.

## Links

- Website: https://www.lemurianlabs.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lemurianlabs
- GitHub: https://github.com/lemurian-labs

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