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Leaba Semiconductor

Leaba Semiconductor was an Israeli fabless semiconductor startup founded in 2014 in Caesarea by Eyal Dagan (CEO) and Ofer Iny (CTO), the founders who had previously sold Dune Networks to Broadcom in 2009. Leaba designed high-end networking silicon — switch and router ASICs for carrier-class packet processing — and was backed by Bessemer Venture Partners and Pitango Venture Capital. Cisco announced its intent to acquire the roughly 45-person company on 2 March 2016 for about $320 million in cash and assumed equity awards plus retention incentives, before Leaba had shipped a product; the deal was widely characterized as an acquisition of next-generation semiconductor talent and design IP. The Leaba team became the anchor of Cisco's Israel silicon engineering center, and its technology underpins Cisco Silicon One, launched in December 2019 as the programmable networking chip family behind the Cisco 8000 Series carrier-class routers. Leaba never operated an independent developer program, public API, or SDK surface, and the leaba.com domain no longer serves a website. This profile is retained as an acquired-company record in the API Evangelist network.

Leaba Semiconductor is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Semiconductors, Networking, Silicon, and ASIC.

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
0 APIs
CompanySemiconductorsNetworkingSiliconASICHardwareAcquired

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apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: leaba-semiconductor
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/leaba-semiconductor.png
name: Leaba Semiconductor
description: Leaba Semiconductor was an Israeli fabless semiconductor startup founded in 2014 in Caesarea by Eyal Dagan (CEO)
  and Ofer Iny (CTO), the founders who had previously sold Dune Networks to Broadcom in 2009. Leaba designed high-end networking
  silicon — switch and router ASICs for carrier-class packet processing — and was backed by Bessemer Venture Partners and
  Pitango Venture Capital. Cisco announced its intent to acquire the roughly 45-person company on 2 March 2016 for about $320
  million in cash and assumed equity awards plus retention incentives, before Leaba had shipped a product; the deal was widely
  characterized as an acquisition of next-generation semiconductor talent and design IP. The Leaba team became the anchor
  of Cisco's Israel silicon engineering center, and its technology underpins Cisco Silicon One, launched in December 2019
  as the programmable networking chip family behind the Cisco 8000 Series carrier-class routers. Leaba never operated an independent
  developer program, public API, or SDK surface, and the leaba.com domain no longer serves a website. This profile is retained
  as an acquired-company record in the API Evangelist network.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/leaba-semiconductor/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- bessemer-venture-partners
- pitango-venture-capital
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: cisco
x-acquired-date: '2016-03-02'
x-successor: Cisco Silicon One
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Semiconductors
- Networking
- Silicon
- ASIC
- Hardware
- Acquired
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Product
  name: Cisco Silicon One
  url: https://www.cisco.com/site/us/en/products/networking/silicon-one/index.html
- type: Acquisition
  name: Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Leaba Semiconductor
  url: https://blogs.cisco.com/news/networking-semiconductors-news
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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