A curated list of awesome semiconductor startups.
- Alphabetical
- Requirements
- startup (ie not steady state)
- semi company (ie not application software)
- product company (ie. not services)
- Optional, include year of founding in parentheses
- Up to 3 bullets per company (confirmed company reps only)
- All entries must be confirmed with public link
- Max 80 char line width
- Agile Analog
- Automating the design of analog circuitry
- Aistorm
- Charge domain based AI processing
- Alif Semiconductor
- Integrated SoC for AI at the edge
- Alpha ICs
- Ampere Computing
- Cloud native manycore CPUs.
- Analog Inference
- Analog in-memory AI inference accelerators
- Andapt
- Programmabale power management ICs
- Anari
- Arbe
- Sensor processing solutions
- Aspinity
- Astera Labs
- Atmosic
- Axelera
- Ayar Labs
- Blaize
- Blue Cheetah
- Blue Ocean Smart System
- Bluespec
- RISC-V CPU IP, System IP and System Development Tools
- BrainChip
- Cambricon
- Celera (2018)
- Fully-automated analog/mixed-signal IC development tool.
- Celestial AI
- Celtro
- Cerebras
- Ceremorphic
- Cerfe Labs
- Cellium
- Chipflow (2021)
- Helping product companies to make their own chips
- Chipletz
- Codasip (2014)
- Supplier of RISC-V IP core.
- Cornelis Networks
- Cornami
- d-Matrix
- Diakopto
- EdgeCortix
- Efabless
- Efinix
- Eridan (2013)
- Creating a power-efficient GaN-based RF Front End Module for wireless telecommunications.
- Esperanto
- Eliyan
- Eta Compute
- eTopus
- Exo Imaging
- Ferric
- Flex Logix
- FMC
- Fungible
- Furiosa
- GaN Systems
- Genapsys
- Gowin
- Graphcore
- GrAI Matter Labs
- Greenwaves
- Low power SoCs for edge/IoT/AI
- Groq
- AI processors
- Gyrfalcon
- Hailo
- HawAI.tech
- Horizon Robotics
- InCore Semi
- Innatera
- Innoviz
- Jeejio (2018)
- AI-based processors and intelligent OS for IoT-enabled devices.
- Jeeva Wireless
- Kalray
- Kameleon
- Kandou
- Kepler Computing (2018)
- Kneron
- Lightelligence
- Ligthmatter
- Lighton
- Luminous Computing
- Master Micro
- Minima
- Mobix Labs (2020)
- Developing RF and mixed-signal ICs for mmWave 5G.
- Movellus
- Morse Micro
- Mythic
- Neuchips
- Neureality
- NeuroBlade
- NextSilicon
- Novumind
- Nyriad
- Occuli
- Ozark Integrated Circuits
- ProteanTecs
- Pensando
- Perceive
- Picocom
- Pliops
- PQShield
- Hardware co-processors and sub-systems for Post-quantum Cryptography.
- PragmatiC
- proteanTecs
- Qadric
- Rain Neuromorphics
- Ramon Space
- RapidSilicon
- Recogni
- Rivos
- RoboSense
- Salience Labs
- SensiEDGE
- SambaNova Systems
- Semifive
- SiFive (2015)
- SiMa.ai
- SiPearl
- Spark Micro
- Speedata
- StarFive (2018)
- Customizable RISC-V processor core IP and agile chip design platform.
- SWIR Vision Systems (2018)
- Syntiant
- Tachyum
- Tensil.ai
- Tenstorrent
- Teramount
- Tetramem
- TriEye
- Upmem
- Vayyar
- Ventana Micro
- Unifabrix
- Unthether AI
- Wavious
- Xsight Labs
- Zendar
- Zero ASIC (2020)
- Removing the barrrier to custom silicon.
| Company | Exit | Value | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acacia | IPO | $1B | 2016 |
| Agnilux | N/A | 2010 | |
| Alphawave | IPO | $4.3B | 2021 |
| Altair Semiconductor | Sony | $212M | 2016 |
| Ambric | Shutdown | $0 | 2008 |
| Anobit | Apple | $500M | 2012 |
| Annapurna Labs | Amazon | $375M | 2015 |
| Aquantia | Marvell | $452M | 2019 |
| Banias | Alphawave | $240M | 2022 |
| Calxeda | Shutdown | $0 | 2013 |
| Espressif | IPO | $1.8B | 2017 |
| Habana Labs | Intel | $2B | 2019 |
| Indie Semiconductor | SPAC | $1.4B | 2020 |
| Innovium | Marvell | $1.1B | 2021 |
| Mathstar | Shutdown | $0 | 2008 |
| MixComm | Sivers | $155M | 2021 |
| Movidius | Intel | $400M | 2016 |
| Nervana | Intel | $350M | 2016 |
| Nuvia | Qualcomm | $1.4B | 2021 |
| PA Semi | Apple | $278M | 2009 |
| PrimeSense | Apple | $350M | 2013 |
| Provigent | Broadcom | $360M | 2011 |
| SiCortex | Shutdown | $0 | 2009 |
| Soft Machines | Intel | $250M | 2016 |
| Stream Processors | Shutdown | $0 | 2009 |
| Tabula | Shutdown | $0 | 2015 |