aid: tela-innovations
name: Tela Innovations
description: >-
  Tela Innovations, Inc. is a semiconductor design-technology and intellectual-property company
  founded in 2005 and headquartered in Los Gatos, California. It developed gridded, straight-line,
  one-dimensional layout structures and the pre-defined physical topologies built on them, sold as
  standard-cell libraries and embedded-SRAM peripheral circuits intended to let logic, memory,
  analog and I/O blocks scale to advanced process nodes with improvements in variability,
  performance, leakage and area — without forcing customers to change their existing design
  methodology, equipment set or process technology. Alongside the libraries it sold physical IC
  design services and layout- and power-optimization software; in 2009 it acquired Blaze DFM,
  adding patented design-for-manufacturing and power-optimization capability for digital logic in
  SoCs and ASICs. It was backed by Intel Capital, Cadence Design Systems, Qualcomm, KT Venture
  Group, Malloy & Company and Black Diamond Ventures, and a substantial share of its later
  activity was patent licensing, including a portfolio licence taken by Samsung in 2016. Tela never
  operated a developer program, public API, SDK, webhook surface or machine-readable
  specification — its products were delivered as licensed cell libraries, EDA software and design
  services under commercial agreement, not as a callable service. Its corporate host,
  www.tela-inc.com, still resolves in DNS but no longer runs a web service (ports 80 and 443 both
  refuse connections) and has no Internet Archive capture with content after January 2022, so it
  is deliberately not wired as a Website pointer. This profile is retained as a historical record;
  there is no API surface to enrich.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tela-innovations/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-harvest-source-url: https://forgeglobal.com/tela-innovations_stock/
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: defunct-no-api-surface
x-status: dormant
x-founded: '2005'
x-headquarters: Los Gatos, California, United States
x-domain-status: dns-only-no-web-service
x-domain-note: >-
  tela-inc.com is still registered (created 2005-12-20, renewed to 2026-12-20, registrar No-IP)
  and still routes mail to Microsoft 365, but no web service answers on port 80 or 443. There is
  no docs, developer, api or app subdomain in DNS. See well-known/tela-innovations-well-known.yml
  and security/tela-innovations-domain-security.yml for the probe records.
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-29'
modified: '2026-08-29'
tags:
- Company
- Semiconductors
- Electronic Design Automation
- Chip Design
- Intellectual Property
- Standard Cell Libraries
- Design For Manufacturing
- Patent Licensing
- Defunct
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/tela-innovations-domain-security.yml
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: defunct
  detail: >-
    Tela Innovations' corporate host www.tela-inc.com still resolves to 129.121.136.207 but
    accepts no TCP connections on port 80 or 443, and the Internet Archive's last capture with
    content predates 2022, so the company has no reachable web presence, no docs host and no
    developer, api or app subdomain in DNS to run contract discovery against.
  evidence:
  - url: https://www.tela-inc.com/
    status: 0
  - url: https://www.tela-inc.com/openapi.json
    status: 0
  - url: https://www.tela-inc.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 0
  - url: https://api.github.com/orgs/tela-innovations
    status: 404
  - url: https://registry.npmjs.org/tela-inc
    status: 404
  - url: https://forgeglobal.com/tela-innovations_stock/
    status: 403
  checked: '2026-08-29'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-29'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 2
  pass: local-v1