# Xilinx

> Xilinx is a VC fund in San Jose backing Software and Information Technology. See 26 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Sep 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Jose, United States
- Total investments: 26
- Last investment: Dec 2021
- Lead investor: 31%
- Fund size: $100M
- Last fund: Dec 2004
- Last updated: Sep 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/xilinx
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/XilinxInc
- Website: http://www.xilinx.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/xilinxinc

Xilinx is a VC fund in San Jose focused on Software and Information Technology. Xilinx engages in the design, development, and marketing of programmable logic solutions. Xilinx is the inventor of the FPGA, programmable SoCs, and now, the ACAP. Their highly-flexible programmable silicon, enabled by a suite of advanced software and tools, drives rapid innovation across a wide span of industries and technologies - from consumerto cars to the cloud.Xilinx delivers dynamic processing technology in the industry, enabling rapid innovation with its adaptable, intelligent computing.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $3M–$80M |
| Series B | $6.2M–$30M |
| Series C | $10M–$65M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 10 | 38% |
| Information Technology | 7 | 27% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 23% |
| Semiconductor | 5 | 19% |
| Hardware | 4 | 15% |

45 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 7 | 27% |
| Series B | 3 | 12% |
| Series C | 3 | 12% |
| Series D | 3 | 12% |
| Corporate Round | 3 | 12% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 14 | 54% |
| Israel | 3 | 12% |
| Canada | 2 | 8% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 8% |
| China | 1 | 4% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dan Isaacs | Director of Embedded Processing Marketing | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dan-isaacs |
| Derek Roberts | Distinguished Engineer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/derek-roberts |
| Eric Culverson | Training Consultant and ATP | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-culverson |
| Geoff Zhang | Distinguished Engineer & Supervisor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/geoff-zhang |
| Ivo Bolsens | Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ivo-bolsens |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bodo.ai | Bodo.ai is an extreme-performance parallel compute platform for data analytics, scaling past 10,000 cores and petabytes of data with unprecedented efficiency and linear scaling. Leveraging unique automatic parallelization and the first inferential compiler, Bodo is helping F500 customers solve some of the world’s most massive data analysisproblems. And doing so in a fraction of traditional time, complexity, and cost, all while leveraging the simplicity and flexibility of native Python. Developers can deploy Bodo on any infrastructure, from a laptop to a public cloud. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Pittsburgh, PA, the team of passionate technologists aims to radically accelerate the world of data analytics. http://bodo.ai #LetsBodo | $22.5M | Series A | Dec 15, 2021 |  |
| Kameleon Security | Kameleon Security is a semiconductor startup with an advanced hardware approach to computing system cybersecurity. It developed the first proactive Security Processing Unit (ProSPU) to enforce security throughout a system’s lifecycle, targeting data centers, managed computers, servers, and cloud computing systems. |  | Corporate Round | Jul 21, 2021 |  |
| Xsight Labs | Xsight Labs is an Israeli company that develops technology for accelerating the next-generation, cloud-based, data-intensive workloads such as machine learning by offering new chipset designs that enhance scalability, performance and efficiency. |  | Series D | Mar 03, 2021 |  |
| Pliops | Today’s explosive data growth and rapidly expanding application workloads threaten to overwhelm datacenters, preventing organizations from harnessing AI/ML, 5G, big data analytics, IoT, and other modern applications they need to achieve their business goals.Accelerating these data-hungry, storage-intensive applications requires moreapplication speed, storage capacity, data efficiency, and scalability than most organizations can afford, no matter how many CPUs and SSDs they add, or how much they expand their datacenter footprint.Just as GPUs overcome processing inefficiencies to accelerate artificial intelligence and advanced analytics performance, the breakthrough Pliops Extreme Data Processor (XDP) overcomes storage inefficiencies to massively accelerate performance and dramatically reduce overall infrastructure costs for databases, analytics, and machine learning. Delivered on an easy-to-deploy, low-profile PCIe card, the Pliops XDP radically simplifies the way data is processed and flash storage is managed.The result is an exponential increase in performance, reliability, capacity, and efficiency— multiplying the effectiveness of organizations’ infrastructure investments. | $65M | Series C | Feb 24, 2021 |  |
| Xsight Labs | Xsight Labs is an Israeli company that develops technology for accelerating the next-generation, cloud-based, data-intensive workloads such as machine learning by offering new chipset designs that enhance scalability, performance and efficiency. | $80M | Series A | May 14, 2020 |  |
| Bigstream | Bigstream provides hyperacceleration technology that delivers orders of magnitude performance gains for big data platforms such as Apache Spark using hardware and software accelerators. Hyperacceleration of big data and machine learning workloads is achieved using advanced compiler technology and transparent support for FPGAs. Unlike otherapproaches, Bigstream requires no application code changes or special APIs. | $19.1M | Series A | Nov 19, 2019 |  |
| Aupera Technologies | Aupera Technologies is a technology innovator which builds converged architecture of video transcoding, content classification, and video storage system. With their proprietary distributed computing and storage architecture, coupling with AI acceleration engine, Aupera is building next generation video data center platform. |  | Corporate Round | Oct 21, 2019 |  |
| Cortical.io | Cortical.io’s mission is to deliver AI-based solutions that streamline the extraction, classification, review, and analysis of information hidden in unstructured text while providing a short time to value. They accomplish this through a novel, meaning-based approach to natural language understanding, which solves many critical challenges of textprocessing in a business context.Their business philosophy puts flexibility at the core of interactions with customers and enables the implementation of custom solutions that meet specific company requirements.Cortical.io has offices in the U.S. (New York and San Francisco) and Europe (Vienna). |  | Series A | Oct 02, 2019 |  |
| SumUp Analytics | SumUp Analytics advances the way companies use unstructured, text-data. We provide a text analytics platform which enables users to extract key insights in a fast and efficient way. Our technology is trusted by Fortune 100 companies and some of the largest hedge funds in the world. |  | Seed | Jan 31, 2019 |  |
| Pliops | Today’s explosive data growth and rapidly expanding application workloads threaten to overwhelm datacenters, preventing organizations from harnessing AI/ML, 5G, big data analytics, IoT, and other modern applications they need to achieve their business goals.Accelerating these data-hungry, storage-intensive applications requires moreapplication speed, storage capacity, data efficiency, and scalability than most organizations can afford, no matter how many CPUs and SSDs they add, or how much they expand their datacenter footprint.Just as GPUs overcome processing inefficiencies to accelerate artificial intelligence and advanced analytics performance, the breakthrough Pliops Extreme Data Processor (XDP) overcomes storage inefficiencies to massively accelerate performance and dramatically reduce overall infrastructure costs for databases, analytics, and machine learning. Delivered on an easy-to-deploy, low-profile PCIe card, the Pliops XDP radically simplifies the way data is processed and flash storage is managed.The result is an exponential increase in performance, reliability, capacity, and efficiency— multiplying the effectiveness of organizations’ infrastructure investments. | $30M | Series B | Jan 30, 2019 |  |

10 of 26 investments shown.

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- [Koch Disruptive Technologies](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/koch-disruptive-technologies) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Xilinx invest in?

Xilinx invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 26 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Xilinx's check size?

Xilinx typically joins rounds of $3M–$80M at Series A, $6.2M–$30M at Series B and $10M–$65M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Xilinx participates in.

### How do I contact Xilinx?

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### Who are the partners at Xilinx?

The team at Xilinx includes Dan Isaacs (Director of Embedded Processing Marketing), Derek Roberts (Distinguished Engineer) and Eric Culverson (Training Consultant and ATP), among 11 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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