Semiconductors Startups

Avegant develops LED light engine technology, including the AG-30L2, for lightweight augmented reality glasses. The company builds compact display components aimed at enabling AR experiences in everyday wearable devices.

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Aviva Links designs semiconductor devices for connectivity in autonomous and software-defined vehicles, providing Ethernet switches, PHYs, bridges, and serializer/deserializer chips for high-bandwidth sensor data transport. Now part of NXP Semiconductors, the company serves automotive manufacturers requiring multi-gigabit connectivity solutions.

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Axonne develops high-performance Automotive Ethernet connectivity solutions, including PHY transceivers and bridges supporting 1Gbps to 10Gbps, for building zonal in-vehicle network architectures. Its products target automotive and autonomous vehicle applications, connecting sensors such as cameras, RADAR, and LiDAR for AI/ML inference.

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Azimuth AI designs software-defined custom SoCs that combine compute, mixed-signal integration, and AI acceleration for edge and embedded products. Its chips target applications such as smart utilities, industrial IoT, connected infrastructure, and intelligent sensing.

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Blaize develops edge AI computing platforms and software tools that enable efficient deployment of artificial intelligence models on edge devices with reduced power consumption and latency compared to traditional GPU/CPU solutions.

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Blu Wireless develops millimeter wave radio networking technology for wireless communications. The company specializes in mmWave networking solutions.

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BoolSi is a platform that compiles hot C or C++ functions in embedded applications into custom digital logic co-processors, generating, verifying, and deploying hardware bitstreams without HDL or a parallel codebase. It targets developers of robotics and embedded devices whose products are bottlenecked by CPUs or microcontrollers and need application-specific hardware acceleration.

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Broadcom develops semiconductors and infrastructure software for enterprise and large-scale organizations, spanning networking and wireless connectivity, servers and storage, broadband, and industrial chips. Its software portfolio covers private cloud, mainframe, cybersecurity, and Fibre Channel storage area network management.

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Bronco AI develops AI tools for semiconductor verification engineers to detect design flaws, increase test coverage, and accelerate chip production timelines at major chipmakers.

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Caelus is a chip design company that develops high-performance ADC/DAC integrated circuits, including high-precision SAR ADCs and high-speed ADCs, using its own patented technology. Its products serve industries such as industrial automation, energy, instrumentation and measurement, data acquisition, communications, and medical imaging.

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Caspia Technologies builds a GenAI-based security verification platform that integrates with existing chip design flows to detect and help fix security weaknesses in SoC and RTL designs. It serves hardware and semiconductor design teams, extending security assurance into the supply chain through bill-of-materials analysis and counterfeit detection.

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Chain Reaction designs processors, including its 3PU FHE processor, that make fully homomorphic encryption practical for large-scale computation on encrypted data. Its hardware targets privacy-preserving AI and cloud workloads.

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ChipStack develops AI-powered agents for semiconductor verification that automate RTL design testing and debug tasks traditionally requiring specialized expertise. The company serves design verification engineers and RTL designers in the semiconductor industry.

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Cisro provides equipment and inspection/measurement solutions for the electrode processing step in secondary battery (lithium-ion) manufacturing, and supplies precision measurement and defect inspection technology for semiconductor and PCB production. It also offers surface analysis and deposition technology for display manufacturing.

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Comptek Solutions develops semiconductor surface passivation technology (Kontrox) and manufactures process equipment, including wafer reactors, laser facet passivation systems (Kontrox LASE 16), and micro-spectroscopy characterization tools, for compound semiconductor manufacturers. Its products serve R&D-to-industrial-scale production for applications such as microLEDs, edge-emitting lasers, and power electronics.</parameter> <parameter name="sector_codes">["semiconductors", "hardware", "deeptech"]

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CoolSem develops wafer-level thermal management technology for semiconductor and photonic devices, using its patented WaLTIS engineered substrate to replace the original device substrate and reduce thermal resistance and mechanical stress in chips such as GaN, GaAs, InP and SiC. Its technology targets the die-to-substrate thermal bottleneck to improve chip performance, reliability and lifetime.

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CrossBar develops ReRAM-based semiconductor technology and secure silicon architectures, including its DARIC secure processing unit that integrates compute, cryptographic acceleration, and ReRAM memory on a single chip. The company applies this to open-source, verifiable hardware wallets and on-device multi-party computation (MPC) for cryptographic key management.

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Crowd Supply is a crowdfunding platform for hardware and technology products, vetting projects for originality, usefulness, and a commitment to user rights, and handling fulfillment for creators by shipping products to backers from its own warehouse. It connects independent hardware creators with backers and holds projects to a "Proclamation of User Rights" covenant.

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Cytotronics develops Pixel, a semiconductor-to-live-cell interface platform that measures cell viability, morphology, electrophysiology, and metabolism at single-cell resolution across any cell type or 3D organoid system. It serves cell biologists working in therapeutic areas such as vascular biology, stem cell differentiation, cardiovascular and neurological disease, and oncology.

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DeepSim provides a physics simulation platform that automates complex setup procedures to accelerate engineering design workflows. The platform uses GPU-accelerated computation to enable engineers to run simulations at unprecedented scale without sacrificing accuracy.

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DeepWeave builds Loom, an AI-native optimization platform that augments the backend (physical) design stage of chip design, targeting power, performance, area, and yield through design-technology co-optimization within existing EDA flows. It serves semiconductor design teams and fabless companies and works alongside their existing toolchains and PDKs, with design partnerships including GlobalFoundries.

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DEEPX builds the DX-M1M, an on-device AI processor (NPU) that delivers 25 TOPS at about 3W and integrates LPDDR4x memory in a compact package for edge applications like computer vision and audio analysis. It targets embedded and industrial edge systems such as AI cameras, ADAS, robots, drones, and edge servers, with tooling that optimizes models from frameworks like PyTorch and ONNX.

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DisplayLink develops USB graphics system-on-chip technology that enables multiple display expansion across Windows, macOS, ChromeOS, Ubuntu, and Android devices regardless of underlying hardware architecture. The company's chipsets power docking stations, USB monitors, adapters, and meeting room solutions for businesses and mobile device users seeking cross-platform productivity and IT cost optimization.

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