Semiconductors Startups

A global semiconductor and photonics company that designs and manufactures light emitters, optical sensors, and imaging solutions for automotive, industrial, medical, and consumer electronics markets. With 120 years of heritage as OSRAM, the company combines photonics technology with semiconductor expertise to enable applications in visualization, illumination, and sensing.

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HEPT Lab is a fabless semiconductor company that designs chips based on technology developed over a decade at Caltech.

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Heraeus is a family-owned technology group specializing in materials expertise, developing customized materials-based solutions across the areas of Metals & Recycling, Healthcare, Semiconductor & Electronics, and Industrials. It serves industrial and commercial customers globally with materials science and technology offerings.

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The company manufactures transimpedance amplifiers (TIAs) and combo integrated circuits for high-speed optical communication applications, with products operating at speeds from 1Gbps to over 10Gbps in mass production.

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TES manufactures equipment for the semiconductor, power semiconductor, opto-electronics, and display & OLED industries, serving manufacturers in these sectors. The company operates in South Korea's semiconductor and display equipment market.

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Huacapital (华业天成) is a Chinese industry-focused investment firm that invests in and supports intelligent-technology companies and the industrial transformation they drive. It targets semiconductor, chip design, AI, robotics, and enterprise technology leaders, offering operational support from a team with experience managing technology companies.

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HyperPV develops GPU-accelerated software tools for semiconductor chip design and verification, offering performance faster than CPU-based solutions with foundry-comparable accuracy. Its products are customizable via a Python API and scale across hybrid data center and cloud environments.

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VM Inc. manufactures semiconductor etching equipment (Etcher) used in chip production to enable miniaturization of semiconductor devices. The company serves semiconductor manufacturers and foundries.

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Ichor Systems designs and manufactures gas and chemical delivery subsystems and advanced reactor process equipment for the semiconductor capital equipment industry. It acts as a turn-key outsourcing partner to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), handling tool design, production, and supply chain for non-critical elements.

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Ichunt operates an electronic components supply and distribution business with an "inventory-as-a-service" model, serving the electronics industry. It runs a quality-inspection center that performs data comparison, appearance inspection, electrical and solderability testing, X-ray non-destructive inspection, baking, and vacuum packaging on active components (such as chips) and passive components (inductors, capacitors, resistors).

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ICTK develops PUF-based (Physically Unclonable Function) hardware security chips and platforms used for IoT device authentication, digital ID, and communications security. Its technology is supplied to telecom operators, consumer electronics makers, and defense and enterprise customers, with a focus on the South Korean market.

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Imec is an independent research and innovation center for nanoelectronics and digital technology, operating semiconductor pilot lines, cleanrooms, and labs used by industrial partners, startups, and universities. It conducts chip design and process R&D applied to fields such as health, automotive, agritech, and energy, working in an open innovation model with the global microchip value chain.

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Impact Nano is a development partner and tier 2 advanced materials supplier specializing in ligand, organometallic, silicon, and fluorine chemistry, offering custom "fingerprint" chemicals from benchtop to high-volume manufacturing up to 500 tons/year. It serves customers in computing, energy transition, and health industries using green chemistry and circular manufacturing approaches, with manufacturing based in the USA.

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Impedans develops plasma diagnostic sensors — including Langmuir probes, retarding field energy analyzers, and RF VI probes — that measure parameters such as ion density, electron temperature, ion energy, and RF power/impedance. Its products are used by semiconductor device manufacturers, plasma equipment makers, research institutes, and university physics labs across the US, Europe, and Asia.

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IMS Nanofabrication is a high-tech company specializing in electron-beam lithography, developing and manufacturing multi-electron-beam writers for semiconductor industry manufacturers. It operates in nanotechnology serving global semiconductor players.

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INCIRT develops broadband data conversion technology used in wireless connectivity and sensing systems. Its components serve applications in satellite, radar, space, Wi-Fi, telecommunications, and test-and-measurement equipment.

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Inergy is an IC design company that develops energy-efficient semiconductor components and motor driver systems, including power MOSFETs, BLDC motor drivers, and cooling fan driver ICs. The company serves manufacturers in consumer electronics, automotive, and industrial applications seeking to reduce energy consumption and carbon footprint.

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Infiscale develops a compiler-based software toolchain and unified platform supporting CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs to build a domestic AI chip software ecosystem in China. It offers low-cost, cross-brand standardized AI software infrastructure and edge computing chip solutions for AI applications.

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InfraSen develops an un-cooled thermal imaging sensor technology that separates the integrated-circuit and sensor-matrix fabrication processes to reduce dependence on CMOS chips, enabling higher-resolution, lower-cost thermal imagers. Its chips target applications such as medical temperature monitoring, fire protection, self-driving vehicles, and security surveillance.

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iNGage develops high-performance navigation sensors based on MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems) technology for high-volume applications. The fabless semiconductor company serves the navigation and inertial sensor market.

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iniVation develops neuromorphic vision technology for high-performance, low-power imaging systems serving both consumer and industrial applications.

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Innatera develops ultra-low-power neuromorphic processor chips that bring brain-like intelligence to the sensor edge, enabling everyday electronics and IoT devices to sense, understand, and respond in real time while keeping data on-device. Its technology targets edge AI applications in consumer electronics and IoT products.

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InnoGrit designs SSD controller technologies and integrated storage solutions, including PCIe Gen5 controllers and turnkey SSD platforms, aimed at reducing latency and TCO. Its products target data centers, enterprise systems, AI infrastructure, and personal computing.

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InnoPhase develops energy-efficient ORAN radio hardware for 5G infrastructure, built around a custom RF system-on-chip aimed at lowering total cost of ownership. Its technology targets wireless network operators and spans small cells to Massive MIMO arrays.

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