Semiconductors Startups

Diamond Quanta is commercializing the Adamantine Platform, an engineered-diamond materials and interface platform providing coatings, substrates, and active devices for semiconductor, power electronics, optics/photonics, and quantum applications. It serves consumer, automotive, aerospace/defense, and quantum photonics markets and offers prototyping, product design, and IP licensing services.

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Discovered Materials develops AI agents that accelerate materials discovery for semiconductor manufacturing, targeting datacenters and fabrication facilities. The company aims to find novel materials in months rather than years through AI-driven research combined with deep materials science expertise.

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Dolphin Semiconductor designs semiconductor IP, including audio and analog/mixed-signal IP cores and power management IP, along with silicon design platforms for System-on-Chip development. Its IP targets mobile devices, consumer electronics (wearables, earbuds, speakers), automotive, IoT, industrial, and aerospace applications, with a focus on energy efficiency.

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Manufacturer of advanced materials for semiconductors, displays, batteries, and pharmaceutical intermediates. Supplies core materials to technology and life-science manufacturers, targeting the global semiconductor and energy markets.

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East Photonics develops optical components and technologies including wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) design, thin-film filter deposition, optical fiber fusion splicing, and precision optical alignment. Its products serve broadcasting/telecommunications, electromagnetic/semiconductor sensing, quantum cryptography, defense, and measurement/analysis applications.

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EasylogicEDA (Easylogic Technology, founded 2013) develops electronic design automation (EDA) software, focused on functional ECO (Engineering Change Order) algorithms for ASIC design teams. Its EasylogicECO product helps chip design teams complete ECO tasks quickly to shorten development cycles, with customers across mainland China, Taiwan, the US, and South Korea.

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Edgewater Wireless designs AI-driven Wi-Fi silicon using its Spectrum Slicing technology, which enables multiple concurrent channels from a single radio to increase capacity, lower latency, and improve reliability. Its PrismIQ chip family targets service providers, enterprises, industrial IoT, and autonomous systems, with residential, enterprise, and dual-use products.

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Electro Rent rents, sells, and manages electronic test and measurement equipment — including RF, spectrum analyzers, OTDRs, and fiber/telecom testing gear — for industries such as aerospace & defense, satellite communications, semiconductors, automotive, and mobile communications. It also operates an accredited calibration and repair lab and offers certified pre-owned equipment and asset optimization services.

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ElFys designs, develops and manufactures customized and standard photodetectors based on black silicon induced junction photodiode technology, offering high sensitivity across UV to near-IR wavelengths for light detection applications including wearables. The company, a spin-off from Aalto University research, also provides IP licensing services for its photodetector technology.

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A Korean company that develops inspection and measurement instruments along with AI machine vision products. The page shown is an investor relations / electronic disclosure section.

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Embedder builds an AI system for embedded firmware engineering that reads datasheets, writes firmware, flashes boards, monitors the bus, and corrects its own errors, while learning from a company's own documentation and hardware. It serves engineering teams in semiconductor, IoT, medical device, automotive, aerospace and defense, industrial automation, and consumer electronics, from small startups to large organizations.

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Emergence is an AI research lab that builds agentic infrastructure for mission-critical enterprise systems, focusing on autonomous agents with determinism, governance, and long-term memory. Its solutions target industries such as semiconductor design, verification, and manufacturing, where its specialized agents automate investigations and corrective actions across the production lifecycle.

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Founded in 2010, the company designs, develops, and manufactures smart optical sensors, including ambient light, proximity, RGB color/color-temperature, flicker, UV, gesture, heart-rate, and 3D image sensors. Its products are used in smartphones, tablets, notebook PCs, TWS earbuds, AR/VR headsets, wearables such as smart bands, and smart-home devices.

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EnaChip develops integrated magnetic structures — thin, small inductors fabricated with semiconductor-compatible electroplating — for point-of-load power delivery in AI infrastructure, advanced packaging, chiplets, and edge systems. Its platform brings magnetics into PMIC/IVR packages and the chip stack to improve power efficiency and density for compute systems.

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Ephemeron Labs provides hardware and software accessories that add EBIC (electron-beam-induced current) measurement capability to scanning electron microscopes, including sensitive preamplifiers, sample interfacing and shielding, and a scan controller. Its systems support femtoampere-sensitivity current imaging of solid-state devices such as solar cells and nanowires for researchers doing materials and semiconductor characterization.

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Eridan builds Software Defined Radios for Private 5G networks, using a proprietary Switch-Mode Direct Polar transmitter with Gallium Nitride power stages to deliver higher signal fidelity and lower power consumption than conventional radios. The company serves enterprise customers, network operators, and applications spanning industrial automation, rural broadband, defense, and utilities.

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Espretech develops the Nvisilink family of chipsets and sensors that convert data into chaotic waveforms routed beneath the visible frequency spectrum of a network, providing hardware-level data security, connectivity, and device scalability. The technology includes embedded AI for threat detection and mitigation.

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ESWIN develops chips and semiconductor solutions, produces silicon materials, and works on ecosystem/supply-chain development. The company operates in the semiconductor industry, offering chip products and related silicon materials.

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Ethernity Networks develops FPGA-based software for networking and security, providing data processing solutions with networking features, security functions, and virtual functions to accelerate and optimize telco and cloud networks. Its technology supports the deployment of edge computing, 5G, IoT, and NFV, and the company is publicly listed on the London Stock Exchange AIM market.

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ExciteLab runs a startup acceleration program that supports founders with mentoring, focus weeks, and operational assistance. Its team spans HR, finance, marketing, semiconductor technology, and business development expertise for early-stage and midsize companies.

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Ferric develops integrated voltage regulators and DC-DC power converters using CMOS-integrated thin-film ferromagnetic power inductor technology, delivering high current density and efficiency in compact single-chip packages. Its converters target computing and digital electronics applications such as AI hyperscalers and data centers.

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Flexiramics develops flexible ceramic materials that combine ceramic performance with polymer flexibility for high-frequency electronics, energy storage, filtration, and sensors. The platform enables lightweight, heat-resistant ceramic products with improved design freedom for demanding industrial applications.

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Flux Computing (OLIX) is building specialized datacenter infrastructure for AI inference, designed as a "production line" of purpose-built chips with fast interconnects to increase token throughput at lower cost. It targets frontier AI workloads and the compute infrastructure market.

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FnS produces glass substrates for next-generation semiconductor packages.

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