INCIRT Raises €4.8 Million In Funding Round Led by Lifeline Ventures

The round was led by Lifeline Ventures, with participation from High Tech Gründerfonds.

Founded in 2022 as a spin-off of RWTH Aachen INCIRT develops ultra-fast data converters capable of up to 100× faster conversion than existing approaches.

The technology overcomes key limitations in the semiconductor industry without relying on smaller, costlier manufacturing nodes.

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Data converters are critical for modern communication and sensor systems, enabling fast, efficient and reliable transfer between digital and real-world applications. INCIRT’s architecture leverages intelligent parallelisation rather than incremental optimisation, delivering ultra-fast, energy-efficient performance.

This approach addresses bottlenecks in signal processing and supports applications in satellite communications, mobile networks, radar, AI, and data centre infrastructure.

The new funding will accelerate product development, industrialisation and technological validation, preparing INCIRT for initial customer projects and market entry.

“Our architecture enables performance gains that are hardly achievable with classical semiconductor development. At the same time, we demonstrate that high-performance chips can also be realised with European manufacturing technology.

This is both technologically and strategically a decisive step towards Europe’s digital sovereignty. One goal, for example, is that in ten years all European satellite constellations around 5,000 to 10,000 units will be equipped with INCIRT technology,” said Oner Hanay, co-founder and CEO of INCIRT.