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Semiconductors Startups

807 companies tagged Semiconductors, with their investors and founders.

AllFocal Optics - company

Allfocal Optics develops nanophotonic display technology based on research from Cambridge University, aimed at improving visual clarity and comfort. Its displays are designed to be more accessible to users, including people with vision impairments such as myopia, hyperopia, and astigmatism.

3 investors

Alsemy Inc

Alsemy builds AI-driven platforms that generate neural network-based device compact models and optimize semiconductor design and manufacturing through process modeling, simulation, and DTCO. Its products (Alsis, Alsphere, Alscope) serve the semiconductor industry to accelerate chip modeling and reduce process bottlenecks.

3 investors

Analog Inference

Sagence AI develops analog in-memory compute chips for AI inference, using deep subthreshold computation inside multi-level flash memory cells to deliver high performance at low power and cost. Its accelerators target applications ranging from data centers to edge, serving use cases such as generative content creation, recommendation systems, real-time anomaly detection, and video surveillance.

3 investors

Anametric

Anametric develops chip-scale quantum photonic (QPIC) devices for cybersecurity applications, drawing on semiconductor design expertise and research commercialized through a partnership with Southern Methodist University. The company works with the Air Force Research Lab and Army Research Lab on quantum photonic chip designs and is developing its first generation of quantum photonic products.

3 investors

Anotherbrain

AnotherBrain develops a bio-inspired artificial intelligence, embedded on an ASIC chip, that learns autonomously, explains its decisions, and runs in real time without big data or cloud while using little energy. Its "Organic AI" technology targets markets such as industry, automotive, defense, and IoT.

3 investors

Anseen

Anseen is a university spin-off from Shizuoka University that designs and manufactures radiation sensing devices based on CdTe compound-semiconductor sensors. Its technology detects and images radiation such as gamma and neutron rays using photon-counting circuitry and high-precision tiling for large-area detectors.

3 investors

Applied Optoelectronics

Applied Optoelectronics (AOI) designs and manufactures semiconductors, laser components, optical transceivers, and RF access network equipment, including 1.8GHz HFC amplifiers and optical transceivers for fiber-to-the-home deployments. Its products serve network and connectivity markets with optical systems, HFC amplifiers, and management platforms such as the Quantum18 amplifier family and QuantumLink.

3 investors

Architect Labs

Architect Labs is developing an AI system that explores, designs, and formally verifies semiconductor chips for high-demand computing workloads. The company operates at the intersection of artificial intelligence and chip design.

3 investors

Arteris

Arteris licenses interconnect IP and software products used in system-on-chip design, serving semiconductor and electronics customers in the Americas, Asia, and Europe. It sells its technology primarily through a direct sales team rather than distributors.

3 investors

Avegant

Avegant develops LED light engine technology, including the AG-30L2, for lightweight augmented reality glasses. The company builds compact display components aimed at enabling AR experiences in everyday wearable devices.

3 investors

Aviva Links

Aviva Links develops Ethernet and ASA-ML multi-gigabit semiconductor products for in-vehicle connectivity, moving data from sensors to processors for ADAS, telematics, and infotainment systems. Its chips also serve wired connectivity needs in robotics, industrial, smart city, and XR applications. The company is now part of NXP Semiconductors.

3 investors

Axiado

Axiado develops AI-driven, hardware-anchored platform security processors (its TCU chip) embedded in servers, 5G, network, and power management controller infrastructure. Its products target data centers, cloud service providers, and enterprise markets, aligning with Open Compute Project DC-SCM specifications.

3 investors

Bronco AI

Bronco AI develops AI tools for semiconductor verification engineers to detect design flaws, increase test coverage, and accelerate chip production timelines at major chipmakers.

3 investors

Caelus Tech

Caelus is a chip design company that develops high-performance ADC/DAC integrated circuits, including high-precision SAR ADCs and high-speed ADCs, using its own patented technology. Its products serve industries such as industrial automation, energy, instrumentation and measurement, data acquisition, communications, and medical imaging.

3 investors

Circuitleap

CircuitLeap builds AI-driven analog circuit design software that uses large-scale parallel computing to automate and accelerate design workflows, including GDS simulation and generation tools. It targets organizations doing semiconductor and analog design who need faster design cycles.

3 investors

Crossbar

CrossBar develops ReRAM-based semiconductor technology and secure silicon architectures, including its DARIC secure processing unit that integrates compute, cryptographic acceleration, and ReRAM memory on a single chip. The company applies this to open-source, verifiable hardware wallets and on-device multi-party computation (MPC) for cryptographic key management.

3 investors

DeepWeave Optimized chips for AI

DeepWeave builds Loom, an AI-native optimization platform that augments the backend (physical) design stage of chip design, targeting power, performance, area, and yield through design-technology co-optimization within existing EDA flows. It serves semiconductor design teams and fabless companies and works alongside their existing toolchains and PDKs, with design partnerships including GlobalFoundries.

3 investors

DreamBig Semiconductor

The page presents content about Arm's compute technology for cloud, edge, and physical AI, including AI-defined vehicles and robotics powered by Arm-based chips. It does not describe the company associated with the actual domain (dreambigsemi.com).

3 investors

Edgeq

EdgeQ develops software-defined 5G technology that lets customers access, customize, and deploy 5G networks through software, with a focus on moving cloud data processing and connectivity to the network edge. It builds base station and small cell technology combining wireless communications with AI/ML for telecom operators and network infrastructure providers.

3 investors

Electroninks

Electroninks develops metal complex conductive inks for semiconductor packaging, printed circuit boards, consumer electronics, and wearables that achieve conductivities up to 90% of bulk metal at low annealing temperatures. The company provides patented formulations designed to replace traditional nanoparticle inks and sputtered metals while reducing manufacturing costs, energy use, and waste.

3 investors

EtherWhere

etherWhere designs low-power GPS/GNSS silicon paired with its patented AccuWhere cloud, which offloads positioning computations from the chip to improve accuracy, sensitivity, and battery life. Its solutions target battery-operated IoT trackers and automotive ADAS applications, with the ArrayNav adaptive-antenna technology addressing accuracy in urban environments.

3 investors

Everactive

Everactive develops ultra-low power, self-powered systems-on-chip (SoCs) for Ambient IoT devices that sense, process, and wirelessly transmit data using harvested environmental energy instead of batteries. Its chips include an ARM core, low-power wakeup radio receiver, and sensor interfaces, and support WiFi, Bluetooth, sub-GHz, and 5G cellular IoT standards for device makers building batteryless wireless products.

3 investors

Exa Laboratories

Exa Laboratories designs AI chips (XPUs) optimized for machine learning inference and training with reduced energy consumption. The company targets AI research and deployment, building specialized semiconductor hardware for recursive self-improvement and scientific discovery applications.

3 investors

Femtum

Femtum builds turn-key mid-infrared fiber laser systems that operate without requiring laser experts, serving industrial manufacturers and scientific teams for applications such as selective laser microprocessing and mid-IR spectroscopy. A Canadian spin-off from the Center of optics, photonics and laser (COPL) in Quebec City, it targets manufacturing bottlenecks in the semiconductor industry.

3 investors

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