AR Chip Startup Raises Funds for All-Day Wearable AR

Ixana raised seed funding to commercialize its Wi-R chip technology, targeting the key barriers to practical all-day AR wearables: power consumption and device weight. The company's electro-quasistatic communication enables body-area networks with 100x lower energy than Bluetooth while delivering megabit data rates for AR ecosystems.

Breaking AR's battery bottleneck

Current AR glasses struggle with heavy batteries needed to power wireless connectivity and compute. Wi-R solves this by confining signals to the body surface (10cm), eliminating radiation losses and interference while connecting glasses, sensors and phones at ultra-low power (sub-nJ/bit).

From research to silicon production

Developed from Purdue University research by Dr. Shreyas Sen, the funding accelerates Ixana's transition to production silicon. The chips support distributed "wearable brain" architectures where processing spreads across lightweight nodes rather than concentrating compute in bulky headsets.

Path to consumer-ready AR

The investment supports scaling manufacturing and partnerships with AR device makers. Wi-R enables seamless, cable-free connectivity for multi-device ecosystems, making extended wear time practical for both enterprise spatial computing and consumer metaverse applications.