NeuroBlade

Market position

NeuroBlade positioned itself in data analytics acceleration, a segment reported as second only to AI in driving global data center demand, claiming its SPU accelerates analytical queries on large datasets 4–10x versus leading CPUs and citing TPC-H and TPC-DS benchmark results; it claimed to be the first company to bring processing-in-memory to production.

Purpose-built analytics processor combined with drop-in deployment options (standard PCIe cards or cloud instances) and an API layer that plugs into existing open-source query engines, allowing accelerated and unaccelerated cluster nodes to be mixed and scaled without reworking analytics workflows.

Technology

The SQL Processing Unit (SPU) is a purpose-engineered processor for analytical query execution, exposed to applications through the DAXL (Data Analytics Acceleration Library) API and integrated with Apache Spark, Presto and ClickHouse. It is deployed via standard PCIe cards on-premises or via optimized EC2 cloud instances. Earlier generations were based on processing-in-memory using the company's patented XRAM technology, which places the data processing function inside memory to reduce data movement. The company also selected KIOXIA NVMe SSDs as part of its analytics acceleration solution.

Go-to-market

The company markets directly through its website with demo scheduling, a gated documentation portal, white papers and integration references, and reaches customers through cloud channel presence — its technology is integrated into AWS EC2 F2 instances and AWS has publicly identified it as an analytics acceleration partner.

Organizations running large-scale data analytics and data preparation workloads in the cloud, on-premises or hybrid environments, including users of Presto, Apache Spark and ClickHouse, and cloud customers using AWS EC2 F2 instances; reference use cases also include scientific simulation and modeling.

Geography

Operations in Tel Aviv, Israel and Palo Alto, California; a US headquarters was opened following the Series B, and the company recruited in Israel and abroad.

History

Founded in 2018 in Israel, NeuroBlade raised a $4.5 million seed round and a $23 million Series A before announcing an $83 million Series B in October 2021 that brought total capital raised to $110 million. It opened a US headquarters and by late 2021 employed more than 100 people while recruiting in Israel and abroad. The company announced what it described as the industry's first processor for analytics, won Flash Memory Summit awards in 2022 and 2023, and worked with the Velox community on open-source hardware acceleration for Presto. In October 2025 it signed a definitive agreement under which its core engineering team joined AWS Annapurna Labs, a move reported as the end of its independent operations.

Risks & controversies

The transfer of the core engineering team to AWS in October 2025 followed earlier internal organizational changes and was reported as ending the company's independent path rather than as a full corporate acquisition, leaving the standalone product business's future unclear.