Semiconductors Startups

AIRY3D develops depth-sensing technology, including its DepthIQ system integrated onto CMOS image sensors, to give machines 3D perception. A spin-off of Montreal startup factory TandemLaunch, the company holds over 28 patents and serves customers across multiple industry verticals worldwide.

6 investors

Alif Semiconductor designs AI-enabled 32-bit microcontrollers and fusion processors optimized for low-power edge processing with high security. The company serves IoT and embedded systems markets requiring scalable AI/ML capabilities and operating system diversity.

6 investors

Astrus develops AI software for analog microchip design, automating the hand-crafted layout of analog circuits used in high-speed interconnects and other critical chip components. The platform serves semiconductor designers and chip manufacturers seeking to accelerate the design of advanced analog circuits.

6 investors

Avicena develops microLED-based optical interconnect technology, including the LightBundle transceiver ICs that pair microLED emitters and photodetectors with multi-core fiber for high-speed chip-to-chip communications. Its products connect GPU clusters across multiple racks to enable scalable, energy-efficient data center and computing interconnects.

6 investors

Black Semiconductor develops graphene-based photonics integrated directly onto electronic chips, converting electrical signals to optical signals to enable faster, lower-power chip-to-chip communication. Its CMOS-compatible technology targets data centers and semiconductor manufacturers seeking to overcome bandwidth and latency limits in computing.

6 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.

6 investors

Daanaa develops programmable Power Transaction Unit (PTU) technology, including power systems-on-a-chip and power systems-on-a-module, that performs power electronics functions and data transmission in a single module. It sells to OEMs across solar (PV, BIPV, VIPV), automotive, energy storage, and data centre power system markets.

6 investors

Fractile designs processors for AI acceleration, offering the next generation of computing hardware. The company serves AI infrastructure teams and cloud providers requiring specialized silicon for inference workloads.

6 investors

Halo Industries produces silicon carbide (SiC) wafers using a laser-cutting process that reduces bow, warp, and subsurface damage, offering multiple quality grades for MOSFET production, diode production, R&D, and mechanical use. It also provides laser wafering as a service, including slicing, grinding, chemical mechanical polishing, and metrology, plus custom wafering solutions for specific materials and geometries.

6 investors

iPronics develops programmable silicon photonic switches for AI data center networks, offering real-time reconfiguration, built-in telemetry, and a rack-ready design. The technology targets AI infrastructure operators seeking to reduce wasted GPU capacity, power, and networking costs.

6 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.

6 investors

Morse Micro designs Wi-Fi HaLow (IEEE 802.11ah) system-on-chip semiconductors that provide long-range, low-power sub-1 GHz wireless connectivity for IoT devices such as security cameras, dongles, and access points. Its chips support standard Wi-Fi networking stacks, WPA3 security, and integration tooling for hardware makers building connected products.

6 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.

6 investors

NeuReality builds software and networking infrastructure that helps AI teams improve GPU and XPU utilization, throughput, and cost per token for production AI inference. Its offerings include an inference operating system for orchestrating AI workloads and a purpose-built AI networking chip for moving data across distributed accelerator infrastructure.

6 investors

Quantum Motion develops utility-scale quantum computers using silicon spin-qubit architecture compatible with standard semiconductor manufacturing processes and existing foundry supply chains. Its platform is designed to fit into data centres and enable scientific work in fields such as chemistry, medicine, and artificial intelligence.

6 investors

SiFive develops processor IP based on the open-standard RISC-V instruction set architecture, offering customizable and scalable chip designs. It serves semiconductor and hardware developers building processors across a range of applications.

6 investors

SixSense builds an AI platform for semiconductor manufacturing that turns raw production data into intelligence for defect detection, classification, and yield improvement across chip fabs. Founded in 2018, it serves semiconductor fabs and manufacturers worldwide.

6 investors

Vaire develops reversible computing hardware to improve energy efficiency and compute performance beyond the constraints of Moore's law. The company targets machine intelligence applications in AI and defense sectors.

6 investors

Rebellions develops AI accelerator chips for running large language models; its Rebel100 is a chip using mixed-precision cores, predictive DMA, and UCIe-Advanced interconnect with HBM3E memory. The product targets rack-scale deployment of frontier LLMs with high utilization and low power consumption.

6 investors

AheadComputing develops high-performance 64-bit RISC-V application processor cores designed to maximize per-core CPU performance for AI, cloud, client, mobile, and edge workloads. Founded by former Intel CPU architects, the company builds general-purpose compute IP aimed at eliminating CPU bottlenecks in latency-sensitive and agentic AI applications.

5 investors

ANELLO Photonics develops silicon photonics-based inertial navigation systems, specifically its SiPhOG platform, which delivers optical gyroscope performance in a chip-scale form factor for GPS-denied environments. The company serves defense, autonomous systems, and commercial markets requiring resilient navigation in contested or GPS-denied conditions across land, air, and sea operations.

5 investors

Arm is a semiconductor company that designs and licenses processor IP and compute platforms used from edge devices to AI data centers, spanning markets such as data centers, automotive, and general computing. It is a publicly traded company majority-owned by SoftBank Group.

5 investors

Blumind develops all-analog semiconductor technology, including ultra-low-power analog neural signal processors (NSPs) and AMPL IP core/chiplet technology, for always-on AI classification tasks such as keyword detection, audio, vision, and sensor fusion. Its chips and IP are designed for integration into OEM and ODM products, with a focus on low power consumption for AI edge applications.

5 investors

Codasip develops RISC-V processor IP and processor design tools for chip and embedded systems designers. It provides customizable general-purpose and application-specific instruction set processor cores along with the design methodology behind them.

5 investors