Semiconductors Startups

Fabric8Labs develops Electrochemical Additive Manufacturing (ECAM), a room-temperature metal 3D printing technology that produces dense, high-purity metal parts with micron-scale resolution and no post-processing. Its patented microelectrode array printhead enables mass-scale production of components, including direct printing onto temperature-sensitive substrates such as PCBs, silicon, and existing metal parts.

12 investors

NVIDIA designs GPUs, AI computing hardware, and software platforms for AI development, data centers, autonomous vehicles, and robotics, serving developers, researchers, and enterprises. Its offerings include AI models, power architecture for AI factories, and compute infrastructure used across industries such as manufacturing, healthcare, and automotive.

12 investors

Black Semiconductor develops graphene-based Integrated Graphene Photonics chip technology that combines photonics and electronics on the same wafer to improve chip connectivity, performance, and energy efficiency. The company operates in the semiconductor industry and is building a 300mm pilot fabrication facility in Europe.

11 investors

Callosum is building heterogeneous AI intelligence, working across the full stack from silicon to algorithms to systems. The company is founded by people bridging neuroscience, computing, and AI.

11 investors

Eliyan develops chiplet interconnect PHY technologies, including its NuLink and NuLink-X products, aimed at increasing bandwidth, power efficiency, and lowering total cost of ownership for generative AI and high-performance computing data center systems. The company targets semiconductor and AI infrastructure applications such as chiplet-based designs and HBM memory scaling.

11 investors

EnCharge AI develops advanced hardware and software solutions for AI computing, focused on semiconductor design and AI systems optimization. The company serves the AI computing market with next-generation chip architectures and systems.

11 investors

Finwave Semiconductor is a fabless semiconductor company that designs GaN-on-Silicon (Gallium Nitride) RF products using transistor designs and process technology originating from MIT research. Its chips target RF communications markets including aerospace and defense, mobile infrastructure, smartphones, medical devices, and cloud computing.

11 investors

Mythic builds analog processing units based on compute-in-memory architecture designed to run AI workloads efficiently in real-world applications. The company develops semiconductor hardware combining analog compute and digital dataflow architectures for AI inference.

11 investors

Olix develops a novel compute architecture integrating SRAM with photonics to enable more efficient AI model deployment, addressing throughput, cost, and latency limitations of current GPU memory systems.

11 investors

Space Forge develops high-quality substrates for semiconductor applications, using microgravity manufacturing in space to reduce material defects and produce higher-purity, higher-performance materials. It targets next-generation semiconductor makers with an advanced materials focus.

11 investors

Upscale AI builds networking infrastructure purpose-built for AI workloads, including scale-up rack networking (SkyHammer) and open Ethernet fabrics based on NVIDIA Spectrum-X silicon and a SONiC-based network OS. Its full-stack platform spans silicon, systems, and software to connect accelerators, memory, and storage for large-scale AI training and inference.

11 investors

Ambiq develops ultra-low-power semiconductor solutions and edge AI platforms for IoT and healthcare applications. The company designs microcontrollers, microprocessors, and AI-enabled solutions optimized for energy efficiency.

10 investors

Inversion Semiconductor develops next-generation semiconductor lithography equipment based on miniaturized particle accelerators that increase transistor density and improve chip manufacturing precision. The platform enables semiconductor fabricators to scale transistor production toward physical limits while improving throughput and uniformity in advanced chip production.

10 investors

Lace develops chip patterning technology for semiconductor manufacturing. Founded in 2023, the company bridges theoretical physics and industrial application with operations across Norway, Spain, the UK, and the Netherlands.

10 investors

Metalenz develops metasurface optics technology for optical sensing in consumer and industrial devices. The company commercializes metalenses—miniaturized optical components that enable new sensing capabilities in smartphones, automotive systems, and medical devices.

10 investors

Paragraf develops graphene-based electronic devices, including molecular sensors (electrolyte-gated field-effect transistors) for biosensing and chemical sensing, and Hall effect sensors for current, position, and magnetic field measurement at cryogenic temperatures. It also offers custom 2D-material deposition and foundry services for solid-state devices and VLSI circuits, serving industries such as healthcare, agriculture, environmental sensing, and cryogenics.

10 investors

SEEQC develops a digital quantum computing platform that integrates the core functions of a quantum computer—including qubits and classical control logic—onto superconducting cryogenic chips, aiming to scale qubits without added complexity. The company targets partners and customers in quantum computing and AI, positioning its architecture for large-scale quantum data centers.

10 investors

Atum Works develops scalable 3D lithography technology capable of printing metal structures with submicron resolution for advanced manufacturing applications.

9 investors

The page describes Photonic Fabric, an optical interconnect technology platform for the scale-up interconnect market that enables high-bandwidth, power-efficient links for AI data center infrastructure. The content is presented under Marvell branding, focused on connectivity, custom silicon, and optical DSP solutions for hyperscalers and data center customers.

9 investors

ChemPower develops an abrasive-free chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) technology and materials for advanced semiconductor chip manufacturing. Its benign chemistry aims to reduce defects, improve yield, and enable metal recovery and water recycling in fabs.

9 investors

Efficient Computer develops a programmable processor architecture designed for energy efficiency in general-purpose computation, including AI applications. The company targets customers seeking computationally intensive solutions where energy constraints are currently a limiting factor.

9 investors

Mobius Materials operates a certified marketplace enabling contract manufacturers and OEMs to buy and sell excess electronic components directly, addressing annual waste of $15B in discarded components despite ongoing demand. The platform serves industries including consumer electronics, oil & gas, healthcare, gaming, and industrial systems globally.

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proteanTecs develops in-chip monitoring technology (Universal Chip Telemetry) that embeds intelligence inside chips to provide deep data and visibility from design through production to field for semiconductor and electronics companies. Its platform delivers insights into yield, quality, performance, and reliability for advanced electronic devices across data center, AI, HPC, telecom, and automotive markets.

9 investors

QD Laser develops, manufactures, and sells high-efficiency semiconductor lasers for telecommunications and industrial use, as well as visual-information devices. The company is based in Yokohama, Japan and is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market.

9 investors