Ingonyama
Semiconductor company specializing in ZKP hardware acceleration
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Ingonyama is a semiconductor company focused on hardware acceleration for zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs). Its core product, ICICLE, is an open-source cryptography library that efficiently runs ZKP-critical operations—such as elliptic curve arithmetic, multi-scalar multiplication (MSM), and number-theoretic transforms (NTT)—on CPUs, GPUs, and future dedicated hardware. Developers can integrate ICICLE via C++, Rust, Go, and other languages to accelerate proof generation in systems like Groth16. The company also offers ZaKi, a cloud service that lets users run proving tasks on optimized hardware with a pay-per-use model, without managing infrastructure. Ingonyama additionally drives hardware/software co-design for modern cryptography including FHE and MPC.
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Ingonyama develops hardware and software to accelerate Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) generation. Their core product is ICICLE, an open-source GPU library supporting languages like Rust, Go, and C++, which speeds up the heavy math (MSM, NTT) behind ZK proofs. They also run ZaKi, a pay-per-proof cloud service that lets developers deploy provers on pre-optimized Nvidia GPU instances without managing hardware.
Their key edge is vertical integration: combining custom hardware expertise with a software library that works across CPUs, GPUs, and even Apple Metal, so the same code can run from a laptop to a data center. This lowers the barrier for teams that lack hardware engineering skills.
The market pain point is clear: generating ZK proofs is extremely compute-intensive and expensive, which blocks wider adoption of privacy and scaling solutions. Ingonyama attacks this by improving both hardware efficiency and software usability, cutting the effective cost per proof.
In the past six months (March to September 2026), Ingonyama shipped ICICLE v3.6 with Metal backend support for macOS, enabling acceleration on Apple silicon. They also continued maturing ZaKi, which completed external trials with data center partners, and expanded ICICLE’s feature set (e.g., FRI support in v3.7) to cover more proof systems and lattice-based cryptography. No major negative events were reported in this period.
Ingonyama focuses on ZK hardware acceleration. Key milestones include a $21M seed round, the March 2023 launch of the open-source GPU library ICICLE that lowered the barrier for ZK acceleration, and the subsequent v1.0.0 release with full developer support.
Long-term significance lies in the hardware roadmap: progressing from FPGA research to ASIC deployment. The integration of Accseal's LEO ASIC into ICICLE v3 allows the same library to support both GPUs and dedicated chips, while the ZaKi architecture aims to cut ZK cloud costs—marking a concrete step toward purpose-built ZK hardware.
Omer Shlomovits: Founder & CEO. Previously co-founded ZenGo (acquired by eToro) and served as its CEO. Holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University. Currently leads Ingonyama, focusing on ZK hardware acceleration.
Danny Shterman: VP R&D. Previously worked at Broadcom and PMC-Sierra Israel. Co-founded ZenGo and served as CTO. Now oversees R&D at Ingonyama.
Yuval Domb: Chief Architect & VP. Holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering (Information Theory) from Tel Aviv University. Extensive experience in wireless communication, algorithmic trading, and cryptography. Co-founded ZenGo and led research. Now architect at Ingonyama.