MIT spinoff Vertical Semiconductor gets $11M to build more power-efficient AI chips Vertical Semiconductor Inc. is hoping to crack the power delivery bottleneck in artificial intelligence data centers after closing on an $11 million seed funding round today. The round was led by Playground Global, and saw participation from Jimco Technology Ventures, Milemark-Capital and Shin-etsu. The startup, which likes to go by the name Vertical, was spun out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Pa...