Cambridge-based startup Tendrils has secured €26 million in a funding round led by Benchmark. The investment will support the development of a new processor architecture featuring thousands of parallel cores and the associated Vine programming language.
Jack Altman, General Partner at Benchmark, has joined the company's board of directors. The round included participation from Visionaries Club, the UK Sovereign AI Fund, FR8, Antimatter, Cloudberry VC, Conviction, Embassy Ventures, SV Angels, and several angel investors.
Founded in 2025 by Nils Cremer, T6, and Hugo McNally, the company aims to move beyond legacy CPU architectures. The team is building a processor based on interaction nets, a model that allows for concurrent operations without traditional shared memory constraints.
The startup is simultaneously developing Vine, an open-source programming language that translates code into interaction nets. This approach is intended to simplify software development for parallel-first hardware and address performance bottlenecks in complex AI workloads.
