LinkedIn · Jul 2026
Company says it is building the world's first SPU and is hiring for software and low-level SPU roles in Redwood City.
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Updated Jul 29, 2026
Vorticity is a founder-led scientific computing hardware/software company building the Pyrite9 Scientific Processing Unit (SPU) and related software to accelerate simulation-heavy workloads in energy, aerospace/defense, life sciences, mining/REE exploration, and finance. Public sources conflict slightly on HQ, employee count, and revenue, but consistently describe a small venture-backed team focused on domain-specific compute.
Primary product
Pyrite9 Scientific Processing Unit (SPU) and associated scientific computing platform
Founded
2019
Headquarters
Mountain View, California, United States (official site/career pages also list Redwood City office/address)
Team size
1-10
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
1 job at Vorticity
Scientific computing hardware/software; domain-specific accelerators; HPC
Offices
Business model
Stage
Series A
Total raised
$12.9M
Latest round
Series A · Mar 2022
Latest amount
$12M
Mar 2022
Nov 2019 · Acequia Capital
Aug 2019 · Y Combinator
Mission-driven, technical, math-and-science heavy, community-first, and explicitly values risk-taking and doing the right thing.
Work style
Flexible
Compensation
Public YC job postings show engineering salaries of roughly $120K-$170K for Kernel Engineer and $130K-$190K for Software Engineer roles in Redwood City; no public equity details found.
Benefits
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
$1M-$10M (third-party estimates cluster around ~$5M ARR)
Estimated monthly visits
2.3K
Traffic estimate as of Jul 2026
LinkedIn · Jul 2026
Company says it is building the world's first SPU and is hiring for software and low-level SPU roles in Redwood City.
LinkedIn · Jan 2026
Company posted an early SPU role focused on applied mathematics and scientific computing.
The Leading Edge / SEG · Jan 2026
Paper by Vorticity-affiliated authors on accelerating elastic full-waveform inversion on GPU-based HPC systems.
Financial Post · Nov 2025
Company announced an open-source nationwide dataset of REE exploration targets generated via physics-informed inverse modeling and AI.
HPCwire · Nov 2025
Profiles Vorticity’s GPU-accelerated inverse modeling approach and its open-source REE map, highlighting founder/CEO Chirath Neranjena’s comments.