Mastiska
Sovereign silicon for AI compute infrastructure
Dubai, Saudi Arabia · Founded 2024 · $10.0M raised
- Headquarters
- Dubai
- Employees
- 1–10
- Founded
- 2024
- Business Model
- B2B
- Website
- mastiska.ai
- Total Funding
- $10.0M
- Last Round
- $10.0M SeedNov 2025
- Rounds
- 1
About
Mastiska is a UAE-based fabless semiconductor startup building sovereign AI silicon — data-center-grade inference accelerators designed for governments and enterprises seeking independence from US and Chinese chip suppliers. Founded in 2024 by Suresh Sugumar, the company operates with a model-creation team in Abu Dhabi and a VLSI design team in India. Its first commercial products are custom FPGA cards loaded with proprietary IP for AI inference workloads, alongside brain-inspired transformer architectures for improved performance and energy efficiency. Backed by $10M in seed funding from GCC sovereign wealth funds, Mastiska targets the UAE, GCC, Southeast Asia, BRICS nations, and the Global South.
Summary
Mastiska is an Artificial Intelligence company based in Dubai, Saudi Arabia, founded in 2024. It has raised $10.0M in total across 1 round, most recently a $10.0M Seed round in Nov 2025.
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Funding History
Nov 2025
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