Silicon Catalyst — 2025 Investments
4 investments dated 2025 · listed companies and verified rows first · show all
Brain-CA Technologies develops an energy-efficient AI architecture based on Cellular Automata, designed to perform AI/ML tasks with lower power consumption and faster learning than existing systems.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechHardwareSemiconductorsCincinnati, US
Steven A. Brunker(Executive Officer, Director)Gerard E. Felix(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardJonathan Phillips(Director)
Co-investorsFirst Trust Capital Partners
Cambridge Terahertz commercializes terahertz sensor technology based on MIT research, delivering compact on-chip radar systems that use non-ionizing radio waves to create 3D images analyzed by AI.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDefense TechHardwareCambridge, GB
Nathan Monroe(Executive Officer, Director)in
BoardCarolyne LaSala Holtorf(Director)Anand Dixit(Director)in
Co-investorsFelicis Venturesfutureland venturesGood Growth CapitalNeotribe VenturesSBXi
Neurophos develops photonic AI accelerator chips (the OPU) that use photonic tensor cores to deliver high compute throughput at low power draw, aiming to compress a full GPU rack into the size and power of a single GPU.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechSemiconductorsAustin, US
Patrick Bowen(Executive Officer, Director)inAndrew Traverso(Founder)inHod Finkelstein(Executive Officer)inPreston Woo(Executive Officer)in
BoardChristopher Alliegro(Director)Nathan Kundtz(Director)
Co-investorsBeyond Earth VenturesBosch VenturesBuilder CapitalDnx VenturesDuke Capital PartnersGeometry+6 more
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.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep TechHardwareHealthtechSemiconductorsFremont, US
Chaitanya Gupta(Executive Officer, Director)inEmmanuel Quevy(Co-founder & CEO)in
Co-investorsCota CapitalHeuristic Capital PartnersSocial StartsTSVC
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