Tendrils Completes €26 Million Seed Funding Round

According to EU-Startups, Cambridge, UK-based semiconductor startup Tendrils has closed a €26 million ($30 million) seed funding round. The round was led by Benchmark, with participation from Visionaries Club, the UK sovereign AI fund, FR8, Antimatter, Cloudberry VC, Conviction, Embassy Ventures, SV Angels, and numerous angel investors.

Tendrils is developing a general-purpose processor architecture designed to support thousands of cores operating in parallel. Benchmark General Partner and co-founder of HR tech company Lattice, Jack Altman, has joined Tendrils’ board.

Founded in 2025, Tendrils is led by CEO and co-founder Nils Cremer along with co-founders “T6” and Hugo McNally. The company is also developing Vine, an open-source programming language based on interconnect networks.

Prior to this funding round, Visionaries Club led its pre-seed round in the summer of 2025.