69 Best Semiconductor Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Semiconductor Startups

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There are 312 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $6.6b. The average funding per company in this subset is $95.0m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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$50.0k

Money raised

HYPRES is a developer of superconducting microelectronics for defense, wireless, and optical network industries.

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$132.0m

Money raised

Gowin Semiconductor Corp. is a manfucaturer of programmable logic devices based in Shanghai.

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$30.0m

Money raised

Rain AI is a company developing a new AI compute platform by co-designing every layer of the AI stack.

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$234.6m

Money raised

Tenstorrent is a Canadian artificial intelligence and machine learning technology company specializing in AI architectures focused on scalable deep learning and adaptability.

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$185.7m

Money raised

D-Wave Systems is a Canadian company that designs and manufactures quantum computing and superconducting electronics, and AI software.

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$138.5m

Money raised

Impinj wirelessly connects billions of everyday things to applications, delivering real-time information to businesses, and enabling the Internet of Things.

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$8.0m

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Crypto Quantique is a company that specializes in quantum cyber security.

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Funding Rounds

$490.0k

Money raised

Zeno Semiconductor is a Sunnyvale, California-based semiconductor company developing memory and logic technologies for scaling semiconductors.

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$14.1m

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Qnami is a quantum technology company that is developing and commercializing quantum sensing and quantum imaging technologies using synthetic diamond and quantum technologies. Qnami's products are in life-science R&D and semiconductor electronics.

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Funding Rounds

$300.0m

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Diamond Foundry is a San Francisco-based company focusing on lab-grown diamonds.

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$133.6m

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A technology that designs carbon nanotube electronics, which can be used as memory devices. It was founded in 2001 and is located in Woburn, Massachusetts.

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Funding Rounds

$17.4m

Money raised

Metalenz is a fabless semiconductor company specializing in the development and manufacture of a flat lens system based on optical metasurfaces.

9

Funding Rounds

$724.3m

Money raised

A fabless semiconductor company designing the Tensor Streaming Processor, a specialized chipset for deep learning applications. It was founded in 2016 and is located in Mountain View, California.

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$54.9m

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A software company that specializes in technology for manufacturing. It is located in London, England and was founded in 2016.

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2

Funding Rounds

$154.0m

Money raised

d-Matrix is a semiconductor manufacturing company building new chips for data center AI inference using in-memory computing (IMC) techniques with chiplet-level scale-out interconnects.

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4

Funding Rounds

$146.0m

Money raised

Rescale is a company developing and providing software platform and hardware infrastructure for companies to perform scientific and engineering simulation.

4

Funding Rounds

$201.0m

Money raised

Blaize, formerly known as ThinCI Semiconductors, is a company providing an artificial intelligence computing platform.

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Funding Rounds

$286.9m

Money raised

Ambiq Micro is an Austin, Texas-based semiconductor company manufacturing low-power chips for edge intelligence systems founded in 2010 by Scott Hanson.

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$194.7m

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Ayar Labs is technology company creating a solution to overcome the power and performance scaling challenges of semiconductors as well as the interconnect bandwidth bottleneck between those devices.

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$182.0m

Money raised

Tabula is a Santa Clara, California-based semiconductor company founded in 2003 by Steve Teig.

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$7.9m

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Semron is a 3D AI chips manufacturer founded in 2020 by Aron Kirschen.

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$121.9m

Money raised

AMEC is a company founded in 2004 by James Yang.

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$12.5m

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Superconductor Technologies was a developer of high-temperature conduction products for wireless applications.

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Funding Rounds

$150.0m

Money raised

Structured Materials Industries, Inc. is a Piscataway, New Jersey-based semiconductors company founded in 1993.

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$7.3m

Money raised

Lumiode is a fabless semiconductor company that develops and provides a micro-LED production platform for various types of devices featuring displays.

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$1.0m

Money raised

Hamamatsu Photonics is a technology developing company.

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$14.3m

Money raised

Canatu Oy's business is the production and sales of a new class of versatile carbon based components based on its novel NanoBud nanomaterial.

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$110.6m

Money raised

XMOS is a company that has developed audio recording technologies

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$5.5m

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Carbonics, Inc. is a business Details of CARBONICS, INC. in California founded in 2014.

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$23.3m

Money raised

Fabric8Labs is a California-based ECAM metal 3D printing company.

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$285.5m

Money raised

GainSpan is a San Jose, California-based company founded in 2006 by Lewis Adams.

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Funding Rounds

$24.4m

Money raised

EoPlex Technologies is a San Jose, California-based 3D printing technology and services company.

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$120.1m

Money raised

Syntiant is an Irvine, California-based company founded in 2017 by Pieter Vorenkamp, Kurt Busch, Jeremy Holleman and Steph Bailey.

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7

Funding Rounds

$170.0m

Money raised

Gan Systems is a developer of gallium nitride switching diodes and transistors

4

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$96.0m

Money raised

TriEye is a sensor and machine vision company founded by Avi Bakal.

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11

Funding Rounds

$90.7m

Money raised

VeriSilicon Holdings is a company founded in 2001 by Wayne Dai.

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Ridgetop Group, Inc. is a company that provides an advanced electronic prognostics and health management (PHM) solutions

5

Funding Rounds

$296.0m

Money raised

Vayyar is a company making an advanced 4-dimensional imaging sensor. The company is headquartered in Yehud, Israel and was founded in 2011 by Miri Ratner, Naftali Chayet, and Raviv Melamed.

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7

Funding Rounds

$123.0m

Money raised

Alereon is an Austin, Texas-based company founded in 2003 by Eric Broockman.

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$202.9m

Money raised

Alien Technology is a San Jose, California-based company founded in 1994.

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$76.2m

Money raised

Miradia is a Santa Clara, California-based semiconductor company.

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$30.0m

Money raised

DenseLight Semiconductors PTE LTD is a Singaporean technology company headquartered in Singapore. It is a semiconductor chip manufacturer which provides integrated-photonics solutions for datacom, telecommunication and sensing companies.

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Funding Rounds

$20.6m

Money raised

UbiQD is a New Mexico-based company developing and manufacturing semiconductor nanocrystals or quantum dots for research applications.

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$101.5m

Money raised

3D Glass Solutions, Inc. (3DGS) is a private late-stage high-tech manufacturing business headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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Funding Rounds

$70.1m

Money raised

Skorpios Technologies, Inc. is a telecommunications company located in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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$3.3m

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INanoBio a nano-biotechnology company based in Phoenix Arizona, a spin-off founded to commercialize FDEC FET nanosensor technology invented at Arizona State University.

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$131.1m

Money raised

SuVolta is a company involved in the development of deeply depleted channel transistor technology for low-power ICs.

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$4.6m

Money raised

LeapMind is centered on the innovation of machine learning-powered software and hardware solutions for a variety of applications.

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Funding Rounds

$135.7m

Money raised

Achronix Semiconductor is a company founded in 2004 by Virantha N. Ekanayake.

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$33.5m

Money raised

Microfabrica is a company founded by Peter Will.

9

Funding Rounds

$116.0m

Money raised

Kovio was a technology company specializing in the manufacture of electronic devices based on printed silicon electronics and thin film technologies.

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Funding Rounds

$134.2m

Money raised

Beceem Communications is a Santa Clara, California-based semiconductor company founded in 2003.

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$5.4m

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Gigajot Technology Inc. is a Pasadena, California, United States-based company founded in 2017.

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$24.0m

Money raised

Magnolia Broadband is a semiconductor company.

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$144.0k

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FLITE Material Sciences Corp. is a Montréal, QC-based company founded by Dan Cohen in 2018.

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$12.0m

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Savari is a Santa Clara, California-based developer of wireless sensor hardware, software, and connected devices for the automotive industry.

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$41.3m

Money raised

MTPV develops and deploys thermophotovoltaic chips for the conversion of industrial waste heat into electricity.

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$28.0m

Money raised

Princeton Lightwave is a company that develops single-photon counting materials.

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$345.0m

Money raised

PragmatIC Semiconductor is a silicon-free chip maker founded in 2010.

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$26.9m

Money raised

Silicon Line GmbH is a Munich-based manufacturing company founded by Holger Hoeltke, and Martin Groepl in 2005.

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$38.0m

Money raised

Kalray is a semiconductor company focused on the development of software and hardware solutions for a wide variety of applications.

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$22.7m

Money raised

Averatek Corporation develops and licenses advanced manufacturing processes for a variety of electronic products including: very high density printed circuit boards, semiconductor packaging and RF and millimeter wave passive components. In addition, Averatek develops and sells the key chemistry that enables these advanced manufacturing processes.

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$29.0m

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Paris-based developer and manufacturer of artificial intelligence and neural processing on-chip systems for low power edge computing solutions.

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$3.7m

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A technology company utilizing design automation tools to deliver machine learning inference chips.

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Funding Rounds

$11.2m

Money raised

Surrey NanoSystems develops and manufactures nanoscale materials for engineering and product applications.

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$40.0m

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Tessolve is a Bangalore-based company founded in 2004.

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$60.0m

Money raised

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