Accenture Invests in CLIKA to Enhance Edge AI Capabilities and Simplify Deployment.

Accenture has invested in CLIKA, a high-performance AI compression platform company, to expand its intelligent edge and infrastructure engineering capabilities. The collaboration will help bring high-performance, compact AI models to real-world devices across industries, unlocking strategic advantages and new business opportunities for clients globally. The investment will fast-track AI deployment for edge devices and simplify the process of optimizing and deploying AI to edge devices such as smartphones, IoT endpoints, autonomous vehicles, and industrial robotics.

Title: Accenture Invests in CLIKA to Boost Intelligent Edge AI Capabilities

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has announced an investment in CLIKA, a high-performance AI compression platform company, through its Accenture Ventures arm. This strategic move aims to expand Accenture's intelligent edge and infrastructure engineering capabilities, thereby fast-tracking AI deployment for edge devices. The collaboration will help bring high-performance, compact AI models to real-world devices across various industries, unlocking strategic advantages and new business opportunities for clients globally.

The demand for edge AI is surging, but enterprises are facing significant challenges such as deployment complexity, infrastructure strain, and a fragmented hardware landscape. CLIKA’s unified platform directly addresses these challenges by simplifying the process of optimizing and deploying AI to edge devices such as smartphones, IoT endpoints, autonomous vehicles, and industrial robotics.

Raj Wickramasinghe, global lead for Infrastructure Engineering at Accenture, stated, "Edge computing is now a critical part of the AI lifecycle. Today’s enterprises need seamless intelligence at the edge. Through this investment and collaboration, we can bring CLIKA’s technology—which allows intelligent models to run on devices not originally designed for AI—to our enterprise clients, delivering the efficiency and precision needed to make edge AI practical and scalable."

CLIKA's platform features a proprietary software development kit (SDK) that automatically compresses and optimizes AI models for a wide range of hardware targets, including CPUs and low-power devices. Each deployment is uniquely tuned for its environment, delivering speed and accuracy without extensive manual intervention or customization. This collaboration strengthens Accenture’s leading capabilities in building next-generation AI infrastructure for edge devices while expanding CLIKA’s global footprint and impact.

Nayul Lina Kim, co-founder and CEO of CLIKA, expressed, "At CLIKA, we believe powerful AI belongs on everyday devices. This investment and collaboration with Accenture Ventures allow us to bring that vision to life, offering enterprises a smooth and efficient way to deploy AI in real-world, real-time scenarios where it can make the biggest impact."

Tom Lounibos, global lead for Accenture Ventures, added, "The rapid growth of AI—and the complexity that comes with—demands faster, simpler, and smarter deployment. With this investment, we are providing CLIKA with strategic market access to enterprise clients, teaming to deploy advanced models at the edge and put intelligence where it matters most."

CLIKA will also join Accenture Ventures’ Project Spotlight, a vertical accelerator for data and AI companies. Project Spotlight offers extensive access to Accenture’s domain expertise and its enterprise clients, helping startups harness creativity and deliver on the promise of their technology.

Terms of the investment were not disclosed.

References:
[1] https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250821752603/en/Accenture-Invests-in-CLIKA-to-Expand-Intelligent-Edge-AI-Capabilities
[2] https://www.stocktitan.net/news/ACN/accenture-invests-in-clika-to-expand-intelligent-edge-ai-q5y6uovsqemw.html