# Naveen Verma

> Naveen Verma is the co-founder and CEO of EnCharge AI and a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Princeton University. He spent roughly six years de-risking a single, stubborn idea - computing with electric charge stored in metal capacitors instead of noisy transistors - before spinning it out of his lab in 2022. The result is analog in-memory computing hardware that his company says runs AI inference at roughly 20 times less energy than a typical GPU, aimed squarely at putting powerful AI on laptops and edge devices rather than in power-hungry data centers. EnCharge has raised more than $144 million, including an oversubscribed $100M+ Series B led by Tiger Global in early 2025, and shipped its first commercial accelerator, the EN100.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and CEO at EnCharge AI
- **Organizations:** EnCharge AI, Princeton University, Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education
- **Nationality:** Canadian
- **Education:** B.A.Sc., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia (UBC), M.S., Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads EnCharge AI, which has raised over $144 million in venture funding., Closed an oversubscribed $100M+ Series B led by Tiger Global in February 2025., Won the 2024 Edison Patent Award in Computing Technology from the Research & Development Council of New Jersey.

## Career timeline

- **2003** — Earned B.A.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of British Columbia.
- **2005** — Completed M.S. in Electrical Engineering at MIT.
- **2009** — Received Ph.D. from MIT and joined Princeton University as a professor of electrical and computer engineering.
- **2017** — His Princeton research group achieved a breakthrough in charge-based in-memory computing efficiency.
- **2022** — Co-founded EnCharge AI with Kailash Gopalakrishnan and Echere Iroaga to commercialize the technology, becoming CEO.
- **2024** — Honored with the 2024 Edison Patent Award for the 'Configurable In-Memory Computing Engine' patent.
- **2025** — Closed an oversubscribed Series B of over $100M led by Tiger Global; total funding surpassed $144M.
- **2025** — Announced the EN100, EnCharge AI's first commercial AI accelerator.

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads EnCharge AI, which has raised over $144 million in venture funding.
- Closed an oversubscribed $100M+ Series B led by Tiger Global in February 2025.
- Won the 2024 Edison Patent Award in Computing Technology from the Research & Development Council of New Jersey.
- Named inventor on the foundational 'Configurable In-Memory Computing Engine' patent behind EnCharge's technology.
- Ralph H. and Freda I. Augustine Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton.
- Director of the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education at Princeton.
- Led roughly six years of DARPA- and DoD-funded research to de-risk analog in-memory computing before founding EnCharge.
- Shipped the EN100, EnCharge AI's first commercial AI accelerator for on-device inference.

## Latest updates

- **2025-05** — EnCharge AI introduced the EN100, its first commercial AI accelerator.
- **2025-02** — EnCharge AI closed an oversubscribed Series B of over $100M led by Tiger Global, pushing total funding past $144M.
- **2024-12** — Verma honored with the 2024 Edison Patent Award for computing innovation.

## Links

- Website: https://www.enchargeai.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/naveen-verma-8a2b6112/

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