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List of awesome semiconductor startups

List of awesome semiconductor startups

Adding a company:

1. Create a branch
2. Add entry to './startups.csv'
3. Run '$ python ./update.py'
4. Submit a Pull Request

Submission Guidelines:

• Startup requirements
  • startup (ie not steady state)
  • semi company (ie not application software)
  • product company (ie. not services)
• Alphabetical listing
• Short single sentence description
• All entries must be confirmed with public link
• Max 80 char display width
• Categorize the startup based on technology table below
• Use standard two letter country codes
• Do NOT edit the README directly, it's auto-generated

Technology	Description
ASIC	Custom silicon platform
AI	General AI (edge or hpc)
ANALOG	All things analog (IP & chips)
CHIPLETS	Chiplet centric startups
COM	Communication (interface, solutions)
EDA	Design automation tools
HEALTH	Health centric devices
HPC	High Performance Computing (data center)
MEMS	MEMS based technology
MFG	Manufacturing related (materials, processes)
RF	Wireless communication (20KHz to THz)
PHOTONICS	Light centric chip startups
QUANTUM	Quantum chip startups
RISC-V	RISC-V based startups (IP + chips)
SECURITY	Security techhnology
SENSORS	Sensing devices
SPACE	Space technology

Startups

Company	Technology	Founded	Country	Description
Accelercom	RF	2016	UK	5G physical layer for high-performance networks
Agile Analog	EDA	2017	UK	Automating design of analog circuitry
Agita Labs	SECURITY	2018	US	Processing security technology/IP
Aistorm	AI	2011	US	Charge domain based AI processing
Alif Semiconductor	AI	2019	US	Integrated SoC for AI at the edge
Alpha ICs	AI	2016	US	AI co-processors for edge devices
Ampere Computing	HPC	2017	US	Cloud native manycore CPUs
Analog Inference	AI	2018	US	Analog in-memory AI inference accelerators
Andapt	ANALOG	2014	IE	Programmabale power management ICs
Applied Brain Research	AI	2013	CA	AI solutions for edge devices
Aspinity	AI	2015	US	Analog in-memory AI inference accelerators
Astera Labs	HPC	2017	US	High performance connectivity semiconductor solutions
Astrus	EDA	2022	CA	AI platform designed to automate microchip design
Atmosic	RF	2016	US	Battery free wireless devices
Axelera	AI	2021	NL	Low power AI edge processors
Ayar Labs	PHOTONICS	2015	US	Electronic-photonic communication chipsets
Beam	RF	2015	IL	Phased array antennas
Blaize	AI	2010	US	Graph streaming processor for AI applications
Blue Cheetah	COM	2018	US	Rapidly customizable die-to-die interconnect solutions
Bluespec	RISC-V	2003	US	RISC-V IP and System Development Tools
Celera	ASIC	2018	US	Fully-automated analog/mixed-signal IC development tool.
Celestial AI	PHOTONICS	2020	US	Photonic fabric optical interconnect technoology
Cellium	RF	2016	IL	Wireless infrastructurefor indoor connectivity
Celtro	HEALTH	2019	DE	Energy harvesting self powering implantable medical devices
Cerebras	HPC	2016	US	Wafer scale processors
Ceremorphic	HPC	2020	US	Analog computing architecture
Cerfe Labs	MFG	2020	US	Electronics materials and device research
Chipflow	ASIC	2021	UK	ASIC design platform
Chipletz	CHIPLETS	2021	US	Smart substrate enabling multiple ICs in a single package
Codasip	RISC-V	2014	DE	Supplier of RISC-V IP cores
Condor Computing	RISC-V	2023	US	High performance RISC-V processors
Cornami	HPC	2011	US	Configurable acceleration for full homomorphic enctryption
d-Matrix	AI	2019	US	Computing platform for datacenter AI infererence
DeGirum	AI	2017	US	AI hardware and software to accelerate AI edge adoption
Dover	SECURITY	2017	US	SoC security IP
EdgeCortix	AI	2019	US	AI accelerators for edge devices
EdgeQ	RF	2018	US	Base station-on-a-chip
Efabless	ASIC	2011	US	Community powered ASIC platform
Efinix	FPGA	2012	US	Programmable FPGA products
Eliyan	CHIPLETS	2021	US	Interconnect technology
EnCharge AI	AI	2021	US	AI processing platform
Eridan	RF	2013	US	RF Front End Module for wireless telecommunications
Esperanto	HPC	2014	US	Manycore RISC-V compute platform
Ethernovia	COM	2018	US	In vehicle networking
eTopus	COM	2013	US	High speed interconnect solutions
Exo Imaging	HEALTH	2015	US	Handheld ultrasound device
Fabric Cryptography	SECURITY	2021	US	Cryptography hardware accelerators
Ferric	ANALOG	2010	US	Single-chip power converters
Flex Logix	FPGA	2014	US	Embedded FPGA IP
FMC	MFG	2015	DE	Ferroelectric non-volatile random access memory technology
Forefrontrf	RF	2020	UK	Wireless communication devices
Furiosa	AI	2017	KR	AI coprocessors
Gemesys	AI	2021	DE	Analog AI processors
Gowin	FPGA	2014	CN	FPGA chip products
GrAI Matter Labs	AI	2016	FR	Programmable neuromorphic computing chips
Graphcore	AI	2016	UK	Intelligence processing unit for AI applications
Greenwaves	AI	2014	FR	Low power edge AI SoCs
Groq	AI	2016	US	AI processors
Gyrfalcon	AI	2017	US	AI processors
HaiLa	RF	2017	CA	Low power wireless communication for IoT
Hailo	AI	2017	IL	AI acceleration for edge devices
HawAI.tech	AI	2019	FR	AI accelerators
InCore Semi	RISC-V	2018	IN	RISC-V IP cores
Ingonyma	SECURITY	2021	IL	Hardware accelerators for cryptographic computation
Innatera	AI	2018	NL	Neuromorphic processors
Jeeva Wireless	RF	2015	US	Battery-free wireless sensing technology
Kandou	COM	2011	CH	Chip-to-chip connectivity solutions
Kepler Computing	HPC	2018	US	Stealth
Kneron	AI	2015	US	Edge AI devices
Lightelligence	PHOTONICS	2017	US	Optical computing platform
Lighton	PHOTONICS	2015	FR	Optical computing platform
Ligthmatter	PHOTONICS	2017	US	Optical computing platform
Luminous Computing	PHOTONICS	2018	US	Optical computing platform
Morse Micro	RF	2016	AU	Low-power Wi-Fi chips
Movellus	ANALOG	2014	US	Clock distribution IP
Mythic	AI	2012	US	Analog ML accelerators
NcodiN	PHOTONICS	2023	FR	Optical interposers
Neureality	AI	2019	IL	Purpose-built AI-centric architecture
NeuroBlade	AI	2018	IL	Accelerators for high throughput data analytics
Neurxcore	AI	2023	FR	AI accelerator IP based NVDLA
NextSilicon	HPC	2017	IL	High performance computing architecture
Niobium Microsystems	SECURITY	2021	US	Secure collection, processing, and distribution of critical data
Novelda	RF	2004	NO	Wireless ultra wideband for high resolution impulse radar
Novumind	AI	2015	US	Domain specific acceleration for AI applications
One Silicon Chip Photonics	PHOTONICS	2016	CA	Optical chips for precision motion sensing
Optalysys	PHOTONICS	2013	UK	Optical computing next-gen cryptography
Owl	SENSORS	2018	US	Monocular 3D thermal ranging solutions
Ozark ICs	ANALOG	2011	US	High temperature ruggedized electronics
Perceive	AI	2015	US	AI processing for edge devices
Picocom	RF	2019	UK	Semiconductor products designed for 5G small cell infrastructure.
Pliops	HPC	2017	IL	Scalable data handling/acceleration
Polyn Technology	AI	2019	IL	Neuromorphic Analog Signal Processor chips
PQShield	QUANTUM	2018	UK	Hardware co-processors Post-quantum Cryptography
PragmatiC	MFG	2010	UK	Manufacturer of low-cost flexible integrated circuits
proteanTecs	ANALOG	2017	IL	Analytics platform for increasing performance and reliability of electronic systems
PseudolithIC	MFG	2019	US	Heterogeneous integration process for RF applications
Qadric.io	AI	2016	US	Edge processing for edge devices
Rain Neuromorphics	AI	2017	US	Brain-inspired hardware for AI applications
Ramon Space	SPACE	2004	IL	Computer system designed for computing in space
RapidSilicon	FPGA	2021	US	FPGA devices
Recogni	AI	2017	US	Visual perception platform for autonomous vehicles
Rivos	RISC-V	2021	US	Stealth
RoboSense	SENSORS	2014	CN	Advanced LiDAR environment perception technologies
Salience Labs	PHOTONICS	2020	UK	Photonic computing platform
SambaNova	AI	2017	US	AI processing
Saras Micro Devices	HPC	2021	US	Packaing solutions for effective power delivery
Scintil	PHOTONICS	2018	FR	Photonic computing platform
Semidynamics	RISC-V	2016	ES	High performance RISC-V IP cores
Semifive	ASIC	2019	KR	ASIC platform
SiFive	RISC-V	2015	US	RISC-V based IP provider
Silimate	EDA	2023	US	Co-pilot for chip designers
SiMa.ai	AI	2018	US	AI processing for edge devices
SiPearl	HPC	2019	FR	Manycore processors for EU exascale supercomputing project
Skycore Semiconductors	ANALOG	2021	DK	Switched capacitor based integrated power converters
Spark Micro	RF	2016	CA	Transceiver technology for ultra-low power wireless communication
Speedata	AI	2019	IL	Analytics Processing Unit to accelerate big data and analytics workloads
StarFive	RISC-V	2018	CN	RISC-V processor core IP and devices
Swave	PHOTONICS	2022	BE	Holographic chips based on diffractive photonics technology
SWIR Vision Systems	SENSORS	2018	US	Image sensor technology designed for short-wave infrared cameras
Synthara	AI	2020	CH	In memory computation chips for AI
Syntiant	AI	2017	US	Neuromorphic processing for edge devices
Tachyum	HPC	2016	US	High performance processor architecture
Tenstorrent	AI	2016	CA	AI processing devices
Teramount	MFG	2013	IL	Packaging technology for photonic devices
Tetramem	AI	2018	US	AI accelerator for edge inference
Trameto	ANALOG	2016	UK	Energy harvesting PMICs
TriEye	SENSORS	2017	IL	Short-wave infrared imaging systems
Unifabrix	HPC	2020	IL	CXL based secure connectivity solution
Untether AI	AI	2018	CA	AI processing devices
Upmem	AI	2015	FR	In memory processsing devices for big data and AI
Usound	MEMS	2012	AU	Sound solutions based on MEMS technology
Vayyar	SENSORS	2011	IL	High resolution image sensors
Ventana Micro	RISC-V	2018	US	RISC-V CPU cores and compute subsystems
Xsight Labs	HPC	2017	IL	Chipsets for accelerating data-intensive workloads
Yorchip	CHIPLETS	2023	US	Chiplet technology
Zendar	SENSORS	2017	US	High resolution software defined radar
Zero ASIC	ASIC	2020	US	ASIC platform

Alumni

Company	Exit	Year	Value	Link
Acacia	IPO	2016	$1B	Source
Agnilux	Google	2010	N/A	Source
Alphawave	IPO	2021	$4.3B	Source
Altair Semiconductor	Sony	2016	$212M	Source
Ambric	Shutdown	2008	$0	Source
Annapurna Labs	Amazon	2015	$375M	Source
Anobit	Apple	2012	$500M	Source
Aquantia	Marvell	2019	$452M	Source
Arbe	IPO	2021	$525M	Source
Banias	Alphawave	2022	$240M	Source
BrainChip	IPO	2011	N/A	Source
Calxeda	Shutdown	2013	$0	Source
Cambricon	IPO	2020	$5B	Source
Diakopto	Ansys	2023	N/A	Source
Espressif	IPO	2017	$1.8B	Source
ETA Compute	N/A	N/A	N/A	NA
Fungible	Microsoft	2023	$190M	Source
GaN Systems	Infineon	2023	$830M	Source
Genapsys	Shutdown	2022	$0	Source
Habana Labs	Intel	2019	$2B	Source
Indie Semiconductor	SPAC	2020	$1.4B	Source
Innovium	Marvell	2021	$1.1B	Source
Innoviz	SPAC	2021	371M	Source
Kalray	IPO	2018	$100M	Source
Kameleon	Ramon Space	2022	N/A	Source
Mathstar	Shutdown	2008	$0	Source
Minima	Acquired	NA	NA	Source
MixComm	Sivers	2021	$155M	Source
Mobix Labs	SPAC	2023	N/A	Source
Movidius	Intel	2016	$400M	Source
Nervana	Intel	2016	$350M	Source
Nuvia	Qualcomm	2021	$1.4B	Source
Occuli	Ambarella	2021	$307M	Source
PA Semi	Apple	2009	$278M	Source
Pensando	AMD	2022	$1.9B	Source
PrimeSense	Apple	2013	$350M	Source
Provigent	Broadcom	2011	$360M	Source
SiByte	Broadcom	2000	$2B	Source
SiCortex	Shutdown	2009	$0	Source
Soft Machines	Intel	2016	$250M	Source
Stream Processors	Shutdown	2009	$0	Source
Tabula	Shutdown	2015	$0	Source
Tensil.ai	N/A	N/A	N/A	NA
Tilera	EZchip	2014	$50M	Source
Wavious	Shutdown	2022	$0	Source
zGlue	Sold	2021	N/A	Source