Semiconductors Startups

Nexstrom develops wafer-scale, CMOS-compatible 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenide (TMD) semiconductor materials using a proprietary MOCVD system, targeting sub-1nm transistor scaling beyond silicon's limits. The company builds a full-stack platform from materials to system to enable higher-density, energy-efficient chips for AI-driven computing.

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Nicslab develops compact multichannel source measurement units and photonic integrated circuit drivers that combine power supply, signal processing, sensors, and control functionality. The products target emerging photonics applications in AI, data centers, autonomous vehicles, space, and semiconductors with high channel density and cost efficiency.

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Nikon is a Japanese company that designs and manufactures optics and imaging products for both business and consumer markets, including semiconductor lithography systems and wafer bonding overlay correction equipment. It also operates in cell therapy manufacturing through its Nikon CeLL innovation unit.

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PWR Matrix develops simplified power delivery architectures and semiconductor innovations to improve energy efficiency for advanced applications including AI infrastructure and electronics.

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Nominal Controls designs and manufactures solid-state DC contactors, relays, and reversers that switch high-power DC loads for industrial electrical applications. Its products handle DC loads up to 1 megawatt and are used to replace electromechanical contactors.

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North Ocean Photonics develops and manufactures wafer-level optics and integrated photonics products, with in-house capabilities spanning R&D, master fabrication, mass production, and quality control. The company operates a research and production center in the Lingang New Area of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone and supplies wafer-level optical components at high volume.

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Normal builds AI-driven electronic design automation (EDA) software and custom ASIC silicon based on novel device physics, aimed at improving AI inference efficiency per dollar and per watt. Its EDA product post-trains AI models on customers' chip design data and is deployed on-premises for silicon engineering teams.

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NovoViz is a semiconductor company developing single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) sensors with on-chip processing integrated directly with SPAD pixels. It offers SPAD chips, modules, and complete camera systems, along with design services, for high-performance photon-detection imaging applications.

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NSC Innovation develops novel integrated circuits intended to power high-speed, color-rich display and technological devices. The company is built around a group of scientists, designers, academics, technologists, and researchers focused on semiconductor development.

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NSS Water provides ultrapure water technology, marketed as its Nanopure/Water Enhancement Tool (WET), designed to remove nanoscale contamination. It targets semiconductor manufacturing, where water free of nanoparticles is needed to achieve high production yield.

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NuVolta Technologies designs highly integrated wireless power semiconductor chips, such as the NU1679 wireless power receiver supporting up to 80W output with an on-chip 32-bit MCU, bidirectional ASK/FSK communication, and built-in protections. Its products target wireless charging applications and comply with WPC standards.

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Oboe builds AI-native EDA (electronic design automation) infrastructure for chip design workflows.

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OE Solutions designs and supplies optical transceiver products, including digital coherent optical (DCO) transceivers, for broadband wireless and wireline networks such as C-RAN fronthaul, backhaul, MAN, LAN, SAN, PON, and HD video transport. It serves network operators and telecom equipment providers, offering customization to meet specific customer requirements.

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ONE WARE provides software that automates the AI development lifecycle, from data to deployment, letting users create customized neural network models. The company holds a patent for its automatic neural network architecture creation process and targets AI performance across different hardware.

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Ampere designs high-performance, energy-efficient processors and an AI software stack (Ampere Optimized AI Frameworks) for running AI inference and cloud computing workloads in data centers. Its product lines, including AmpereOne and Ampere Altra, target enterprise, cloud service provider, telco, and edge AI compute deployments.

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Opsydia is a laser technology company, spun out of the University of Oxford, that uses adaptive optic beam shaping to write features and optical waveguides in transparent materials such as glass. Its technology targets optical connectivity needs in AI and next-generation computing applications, enabling higher-density and more complex system designs.

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Spring Silicon builds full-stack compute infrastructure, spanning compilers to ASICs, purpose-built for physical AI and edge inference to power autonomous machines. It targets industries such as manufacturing, defense, energy, and transportation that rely on robots, drones, and autonomous vehicles.

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Orca Systems is a fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops, tests, and manufactures RF ICs, RF IP, mixed-signal ASICs, and RF-based SoCs, with a focus on low-power RF transceivers for the IoT market. It provides chip design and system integration services, including RF, PMU, and baseband integration, for its partners and customers.

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OSCP develops precision inertial measurement units (IMUs) and gyroscopes based on photonic chips that use the Sagnac effect to track six axes of motion and determine a vehicle's position when GPS is unavailable. Its products target navigation and positioning applications across multiple industries.

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Ostendo develops a Quantum Photonic Imager (QPI) display platform used to build devices such as augmented reality glasses and light field holographic displays. Its technology targets consumer, enterprise, and defense applications.

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Overlord Labs designs its own battery management systems, including custom silicon chips and firmware, built for the power demands of AI devices. The technology measures, models, and controls battery behavior in real time.

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Pantherun develops hardware-based encryption technology using FPGAs, ASICs and SOCs, offering zero-latency data protection at speeds over 10Gbps with field-upgradable, rugged products. It serves industrial and infrastructure sectors including railways, smart cities, road safety surveillance, transportation, factories, and defense, and licenses its technology as software or silicon IP.

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Patentix is a Ritsumeikan University spin-off that develops and manufactures new functional materials, with a focus on ultra-wide-bandgap rutile germanium dioxide (r-GeO₂) for next-generation power semiconductors. The company works on crystal growth, thin-film fabrication, and device development, and sells research samples and materials to industry.

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Peraso develops mmWave silicon chips and modules used in applications including 5G fixed wireless access, tactical communications, wireless video streaming, and AR/VR/XR. The company designs and ships high-volume mmWave semiconductor devices for telecom, defense, and consumer wireless applications.

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