Faraj Alahi brings two public semiconductor ventures to CogniChip

Faraj Alahi, founder and CEO of CogniChip, says he has worked in the semiconductor industry for more than 40 years. Before founding CogniChip, he started a semiconductor company in the late 1990s and took it public on NASDAQ, then built another startup, took it public on the NYSE in 2017, and sold it to Marvell Semiconductors in 2019.

After the sale, Alahi spent two or three years investing and helping other entrepreneurs. He says learning enough about AI led him to believe it could solve some of the problems he encountered while building semiconductor companies; that has been his mission at CogniChip for the past two and a half years.