Hailo

Hailo builds edge AI processors optimized for computer vision and neural network inference in automotive and industrial devices. Raised $340M+ including Series C; automotive design wins with major OEMs. Strong presence in industrial and smart cameras.

Hailo's Hailo-8 and Hailo-15 chips are among the most widely deployed edge AI accelerators, shipping in millions of units.

hailo.ai Edge AI

Israelprivate

At a glance

Total raised

$328.5M

last round series c

Headcount

—

no public estimate on record

Headquarters

Tel Aviv

Israel

Founded

2017

9 years active

Status

Private

Edge AI

Latest valuation

$1.2B

Series C · 2024

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Funding history

Total raised

$328.5M

Rounds tracked

Latest stage

Series C

Latest valuation

$1.2B

Date	Stage	Amount	Valuation	Lead investors
Apr 2, 2024	Series C	$120M	$1.2B	—
Oct 1, 2021	Series C	$136M	$1B	—
Mar 5, 2020	Series B	$60M	—	ABB Technology Ventures, NEC Corporation
Jun 5, 2018	Series A	$12.5M	—	OurCrowd

How they make money

Hardware (one-time)Pattern

Hailo sells a hardware business: customers buy its edge AI accelerator chips in a standard one-time purchase transaction, recognized at point of shipment or delivery. The company's Hailo-8 and Hailo-15 processors are purpose-built for running neural network inference and computer vision workloads locally, rather than in the cloud. Buyers are automotive OEMs integrating the chip into advanced driver-assistance systems, industrial equipment manufacturers adding on-device vision, and smart-camera producers. Revenue is recognized when the chips are delivered to these OEMs or their distributors, typically under long-term supply agreements rather than per-usage billing. Hailo's economics are shaped by semiconductor industry dynamics. Chip gross margins benefit from the company owning its own neural-network-specific architecture, which reduces die size versus a general-purpose GPU or CPU solution. The unit economics improve as volume ramps because mask and fab costs are largely fixed, so each additional chip sold carries a higher incremental margin. The company also provides a software toolchain (the Hailo Dataflow Compiler) to developers, but this is bundled with the hardware sale and is not a separately priced subscription — it functions as a technical enabler rather than a recurring revenue line. Automotive design cycles are long but yield sticky multi-year supply relationships once a chip is designed into a platform.

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Founder backgrounds

Orr Danon

Co-founder & CEO

Holds an M.S. in electrical and electronics engineering from Tel Aviv University and served for approximately ten years in the Israel Defense Forces, where he met his future co-founders in an elite IDF technology unit. Co-founded Hailo in Tel Aviv in February 2017. Following the death of co-founder Rami Feig, Danon assumed the CEO role. Under his leadership, Hailo has developed the Hailo-8, Hailo-15, and Hailo-10 edge AI processor families for automotive, security, and industrial applications, and closed a $120 million funding round in 2024 bringing total funding to over $300 million.

Avi Baum

Co-founder & CTO

Met his Hailo co-founders while serving in an elite technology unit of the Israel Defense Forces. Co-founded Hailo in Tel Aviv in February 2017 and serves as CTO, leading the architectural design of the company's edge AI processor series. Hailo's chips are distinguished by a dataflow-based neural processing unit architecture that delivers high inference throughput at extremely low power, targeting embedded automotive cameras, security cameras, and autonomous mobile robots. Hailo-8 processors are integrated into NVIDIA Jetson-based solutions and OEM automotive platforms.

Hadar Zeitlin

Co-founder & Chief Business Officer

A former IDF elite technology unit colleague of the Hailo co-founding team. Co-founded Hailo in Tel Aviv in February 2017 and serves as Chief Business Officer, leading the company's commercial strategy, partnerships, and go-to-market for its edge AI processor portfolio. Under Zeitlin's business development leadership, Hailo has established partnerships with automotive OEMs, industrial machine-vision vendors, and security camera manufacturers globally, and achieved design wins across the Hailo-8 and Hailo-15 product families.

Rami Feig

Co-founder (deceased)

A co-founder of Hailo Technologies in Tel Aviv, Israel, alongside Orr Danon, Avi Baum, and Hadar Zeitlin in February 2017. The founders had previously worked together in an elite technology unit of the Israel Defense Forces. Feig contributed to the early technical and strategic foundations of Hailo's edge AI processor architecture during the company's founding period. He passed away, and Orr Danon assumed the CEO role following Feig's death.

AI bull / bear

Bull case

Hailo has already crossed the chasm from promising startup to production-scale player, with millions of units shipped across automotive and industrial cameras. The Hailo-8 and Hailo-15 chips are winning sockets inside major OEMs, giving the company recurring design-win revenue streams that compound over multi-year vehicle development cycles. With over $340M raised including a Series C, Hailo has the balance sheet to endure long automotive qualification timelines and outlast undercapitalized rivals. The edge AI market is still in its early innings, and Hailo's combination of high TOPS/watt efficiency and an established software toolchain makes it the default choice for OEMs that want to deploy vision models at the sensor, not the cloud. As automakers push more ADAS features into mass-market vehicles, the addressable units per vehicle grows — and Hailo is already inside the reference architectures that win.

Bear case

Edge AI is becoming a commodity space where the incumbent semiconductor giants are waking up. Qualcomm, NVIDIA, and Texas Instruments each have edge inference roadmaps with deeper software ecosystems, broader customer relationships, and the manufacturing scale to undercut Hailo on price. Hailo's $340M in funding is real capital, but it pales next to the R&D budgets of publicly traded behemoths who can subsidize silicon margin to win design-ins. Automotive design wins are also notoriously sticky in reverse: a single model-year delay or OEM bankruptcy can wipe years of projected revenue. Meanwhile, the rise of powerful embedded NPUs inside SoCs from Ambarella, Renesas, and even Apple is shrinking the addressable market for discrete accelerators. If the trend shifts toward integrated neural processing on existing chips, Hailo's standalone accelerator model faces structural obsolescence regardless of execution quality.

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