Semiconductors Startups

Empower Semiconductor designs power management and mixed-signal integrated circuits, including high-power and voltage regulation devices for the semiconductor industry. Founded in 2014, the company develops analog, digital, and power system solutions.

7 investors

femtoAI (Femtosense) designs AI inference chips and an embedded AI platform that run large AI models on very small, low-power silicon for edge devices such as smart home hardware and hearing/audio products. The company focuses on energy-efficient "sparse" silicon for on-device AI in consumer electronics.

7 investors

Frore Systems develops active cooling chips (AirJet® Mini and AirJet® Pro) for consumer devices that remove heat silently while improving processor performance. The technology enables manufacturers to create faster, quieter, thinner, and lighter devices while maintaining dust-proof operation.

7 investors

FuriosaAI designs AI accelerator chips, including the RNGD NPU for large language models and multimodal workloads and a Vision NPU for computer vision, along with related server and PCIe products and a developer platform. The company (주식회사 퓨리오사에이아이) is based in Seoul, South Korea.

7 investors

Innovium (now part of Marvell) designs custom silicon, network switch products, and interconnect platforms for AI data-center infrastructure, enterprise networking, and 5G carrier applications. It primarily serves hyperscalers and carriers building accelerated compute and connectivity systems.

7 investors

Ixana designs Wi-R silicon chips for use in wearables, IoT devices, and secure connectivity products. The company offers a range of chip options and technical guidance to help customers choose a product for their application.

7 investors

Lumilens develops photonics-based optical interconnect technology to support the scaling of AI infrastructure and data centers, addressing the limits of electrical and legacy optical interconnects for scale-out and scale-up architectures. It also uses custom robotics and AI-optimized production processes to manufacture its products.

7 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.

7 investors

Movellus develops infrastructure IP for high-performance, energy-efficient silicon, offering solutions for clocking, droop detection, and power management. It serves semiconductor and chip designers building AI-era hardware.

7 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.

7 investors

NextSilicon develops software-defined hardware architecture for high-performance computing in scientific research, enabling developers to accelerate existing code without rewrites or vendor lock-in. The company targets researchers in fields including cancer therapy, physics, and cosmology.

7 investors

Normal Computing develops software and hardware infrastructure optimizing AI models for physical systems through custom silicon design and advanced EDA tools. The company works with semiconductor design and manufacturing institutions to align hardware architecture with the computational demands of modern AI workloads.

7 investors

oneNav develops small, low-power L5-band GNSS positioning technology for military, government, commercial, and consumer applications such as drones, trackers, aviation, and consumer devices. The company designs GNSS receiver hardware and software focused on accuracy and reliability using modern satellite signals.

7 investors

Probius develops Quantum Electrochemical Spectroscopy (QES), a label- and reagent-free electrochemical sensing technology that detects and quantifies thousands of analytes—proteins, metabolites, and cells—from microliter-scale biological samples in about 30 minutes. The platform generates digital representations of biological specimens and cloud-based multiplex assays intended to feed AI models of biology for biomarker discovery, drug development, and bioproduction quality control.

7 investors

QD-ST develops quantum sensing microscopy systems for semiconductor failure analysis and defect localization in integrated circuits. The company serves R&D and manufacturing teams in the semiconductor industry with non-destructive imaging and metrology tools.

7 investors

Silimate builds AI-powered EDA software that accelerates chip design workflows by combining fast computation engines, machine learning models, and user-friendly interfaces. The platform serves SoC and IP companies in hardware design by functioning as a copilot to help chip designers understand design tradeoffs and iterate faster.

7 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.

7 investors

Valens develops high-performance connectivity chipsets that are embedded in devices to support digital and connectivity experiences. The company positions itself as a provider of semiconductor connectivity technology.

7 investors

Verisilicon is a Chinese semiconductor IP and chip design solutions company that provides Silicon Platform as a Service (SiPaaS), offering customized chip design platforms with proprietary IP cores including GPU, NPU, VPU, DSP, ISP, and display processing IPs. The company serves chip designers, IDM manufacturers, system integrators, internet companies, and cloud service providers across consumer electronics, automotive, computing, industrial, data processing, and IoT sectors.

7 investors

Akhetonics is a deeptech company developing an all-optical photonic processor, aiming to build digital photonic computing hardware based on a non-von Neumann architecture. Its work spans photonic integrated circuit design, optical logic and memory, and photonic AI accelerators for next-generation, energy-efficient computing.

6 investors

Blumind is a Canadian deep-tech startup developing all-analog AI neural network architectures for energy-efficient edge AI computing. It builds and licenses its AMPL analog compute technology on standard CMOS process technology, aimed at low-power AI applications.

6 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.

6 investors

Corephotonics develops camera technologies for smartphones, combining optics, mechanics, and computational photography to improve mobile image quality, and pioneered compact dual-camera and folded (periscope) zoom systems adopted in flagship phones. Founded in 2012, it was acquired by Samsung Electronics in 2019 and now operates as a Samsung innovation center focused on cameras and photographic user experience.

6 investors

Diamond Foundry produces lab-grown diamond and diamond wafers for use as a semiconductor material, aiming to enable diamond transistors and electronics. It targets thermal-management challenges in applications such as AI computing, electric vehicles, and wireless technology.

6 investors