The EIC Accelerator is a highly competitive deep-tech funding programme, with 40 startups selected from nearly 1,000 applicants in this round. The funding will allow Roofline, whose winning project is titled ‘Retargetable AI Compiler Technology for Scalable Edge Deployment of Next-Generation AI Models’, to scale up its activities and continue its mission of enabling disruptive edge AI products.
Jan Moritz Joseph, Roofline’s co-founder and CEO, commented: 'We are delighted that Roofline is one of the few companies to be awarded the EIC Accelerator grant. Receiving this recognition in the first year after foundation is a strong validation for the potential of our technology and our execution speed. This fuels our mission to enable the edge AI products you dream of.’
Roofline is a spinoff from the Institute of Communication Technologies and Embedded Systems (ICE) at RWTH Aachen, led by Rainer Leupers.