Xelera Technologies helps with their software to accelerate applications like machine learning

Interview PartnerIn this interview, Joe is talking to Alexander Lange –  Co-Founder and Head of Software Engineering (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-lange-527522119/) at Darmstadt based deep tech startup Xelera Technologies  (https://xelera.io/). He has been with the German Aerospace Center and the European Space Agency.

The StartupXelera Technologies offers specialized software for FPGA processing, which accelerates cloud computing considerably for certain tasks. Xelera already won two awards from the German federal ministry of economics and energy (including digital startup of the year 2019) https://www.de.digital/DIGITAL/Redaktion/DE/Gruenderwettbewerb/Artikel/preistreager-Digitales-Start-up-des-Jahres-2019.html. The startup has also been named a “Top 50 Startup” by German Blog Für-Gründer (https://www.fuer-gruender.de/beratung/gruenderwettbewerb/studie-2019/top-50/)

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Venture Capital RoundXelera is currently raising its seed round in Q2 2020. If you are interested in investing, reach out to us, we will get you connected.

Further ReadingFormerly with DLR (German Aerospace Center) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Aerospace_Center

ESA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(spacecraft)

ESOC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Space_Operations_Centre

FPGA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-programmable_gate_array

GPU https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_processing_unit

FPGA coding https://www.fpga4student.com/2017/08/what-is-fpga-programming.html

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