Semiconductors Startups

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.

1 investor

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.

1 investor

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.

1 investor

Phasor Solutions develops and procures technology spanning chip design, software, and artificial intelligence, with a focus on high-availability, secure systems for demanding operational environments including on-the-move deployments. Its offerings appear aimed at defense or mission-critical operational use.

1 investor

Philoptics (필옵틱스) develops optics-based manufacturing equipment, expanding into semiconductor equipment centered on glass substrate (TGV) systems, and aims to raise its semiconductor business to around 70% of its portfolio. The Korean company serves electronics and semiconductor manufacturers with optical and production equipment.

1 investor

Photon Force designs and manufactures single-photon sensitive cameras and sensors for research and scientific applications in photonics and quantum optics. The company's technology can timestamp up to half a billion individual photons per second and provides customized solutions including firmware for hardware-accelerated data processing.

1 investor

Photonect develops adhesive-free, laser-fusion fiber-to-chip attach technology for packaging integrated photonic devices, creating permanent glass-to-glass bonds. Its patented oxide mode converters reduce insertion loss at fiber-chip interfaces and are compatible with foundry processes and solder reflow, serving the photonics packaging and semiconductor industry.

1 investor

Photonisol develops silicon photonic integrated devices and functional photonic devices, with a focus on integrated optical isolators and photonic integrated circuits (PICs). Its technology targets applications such as optical transceiver modules, co-packaged optics, optical phased arrays, quantum computing chips, and biosensors. The company is a spin-off from Inha University's research laboratory.

1 investor

Picocom designs semiconductor SoCs, development boards, and 3GPP-compliant PHY software for 5G NR and LTE small cell Open RAN architectures. Its products target telecom equipment makers building disaggregated and integrated RAN systems that meet O-RAN Alliance specifications.

1 investor

PicoJool designs and manufactures vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) optical connectivity solutions for AI data centers and hyperscale cloud systems. The company produces high-speed optical engines for transceiver products used in PCIe, Ethernet, Infiniband, and AI infrastructure applications.

1 investor

Syntiant builds a full-stack edge AI platform combining low-power Neural Decision Processors, MEMS microphones and vibration sensors, and deep learning models to run always-on speech, audio, sensor and vision intelligence directly on devices. It serves makers of power-constrained hardware across mobile, earbud, IoT, robotics and satellite applications.

1 investor

PIMCHIP develops compute-in-memory (processing-in-memory) semiconductor architecture that fuses data storage and computation to reduce the energy cost of data movement and address the "memory wall" and "power wall" in AI workloads. Its multimodal AI chips target applications such as large AI models, smart driving, wearables, smart home, industrial and medical systems.

1 investor

PIXCEL develops silicon photonics solutions, a technology that integrates optical components with semiconductor materials for data communication and processing applications.

1 investor

Pointcloud develops a silicon-based 4D imaging sensor platform using Silicon Photonics to provide high-performance 3D perception for machines. Its technology targets applications such as humanoid robots, drones, and autonomous mobility systems in the Physical AI space.

1 investor

Polar Performance Materials supplies ultra-high purity alumina materials to customers in semiconductors, aerospace, sapphire, and other precision industries, with engineered processes designed to minimize contamination and alpha particle emission while reducing energy use.

1 investor

Polymatech Electronics designs and manufactures opto-semiconductor and compound semiconductor products used in devices such as smartphones, tablets, satellite communications, and GPS. It positions itself as an Indian compound semiconductor manufacturer serving businesses with customized applications and large-scale production.

1 investor

Polyn develops neuromorphic front-end chips using its NASP technology to perform always-on processing of raw sensor data, enabling on-device edge AI products. It targets markets including wearables, automotive, audio, smart home, physical AI, and Industry 4.0.

1 investor

PoroTech develops MicroLED semiconductor materials and manufacturing processes for next-generation display and lighting applications. The company specializes in gallium nitride (GaN) and III-V semiconductor innovations aimed at advancing the commercial adoption of MicroLED technology.

1 investor

PowerDown Semiconductor develops low-power circuit technology that reduces dynamic switching power in computing systems, enabling higher performance without increased thermal output. The company targets semiconductor and systems designers working on power-constrained applications.

1 investor

Presto Engineering provides semiconductor design and manufacturing services, serving industrial, medical, automotive, and IoT sectors. The company specializes in custom silicon solutions and high-speed optical communication ASICs.

1 investor

Etched designs and manufactures frontier inference clusters, including custom chips, racks, and software, to deliver high-performance and cost-efficient AI inference systems for hyperscalers and AI labs. The company co-optimizes hardware and software across the entire stack to serve inference workloads at scale.

1 investor

Primemas develops chiplet-based platform SoCs and hardware architectures for AI data infrastructure, custom AI chip acceleration, and reconfigurable FPGA solutions. Its Hublet architecture targets datacenter operators, chip designers, and developers building large-scale AI, database, and physical AI systems.

1 investor

Priortech is a company creator and investor focused on the global semiconductor industry, developing solutions through two industry-leading businesses, Camtek and ACCESS.

1 investor

PR Photonics develops silicon photonic integrated circuits for optical interconnect and computing, aiming to address challenges in silicon photonic devices. Its technology targets AI chip connectivity and scalable photonic AI computing.

1 investor