TORONTO, February 22, 2018 — LegUp Computing, Inc. announced today that it closed a seed funding round led by Intel Capital. LegUp offers a cloud platform that enables software developers to program, deploy, scale, and manage FPGA devices for accelerating high performance applications without requiring hardware expertise. The technology enables the next generation of low-latency and high-throughput computing on the vast amount of real-time data processed in the cloud. LegUp Computing, Inc., was spawned from years of research in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto to commercialize the award-winning open-source LegUp high-level synthesis tool.
LegUp Computing team from left to right: Omar Ragheb, Zhi Li, Dr. Andrew Canis, Ruolong Lian, Dr. Jongsok Choi, and University of Toronto Professor Jason Anderson (Photo: Jessica MacInnis)