https://github.com/aolofsson/awesome-semiconductor-startups

List of awesome semiconductor startups

awesome-semiconductor-startups

A curated list of awesome semiconductor startups.

• Alphabetical
• Requirements
  • startup (ie not public, 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

Active

• Agile Analog
• Ampere Computing
• Analog Inference
• Anari
• Arbe
• Aspinity
• Astera Labs
• Atmosic
• Axelera
• Ayar Labs
• Blaize
• Blue Cheetah
• Bluespec
  • RISC-V CPU IP, System IP and System Development Tools
• BrainChip
• Celestial AI
• Cerebras
• Ceremorphic
• Cerfe Labs
• Cornami
• Diakopto
• EdgeCortix
• Efabless
• Efinix
• Esperanto
• Eta Compute
• Flex Logix
• Fungible
• Furiosa
• GaN Systems
• Gowin
• Graphcore
• GrAI Matter Labs
• Greenwaves
• Grog
• Gyrfalcon
• Hailo
• HawAI.tech
• InCore Semi
• Innatera
• Innoviz
• Kalray
• Kandou
• Kneron
• Lightelligence
• Ligthmatter
• Lighton
• Luminous Computing
• Minima
• Movellus
• Morse Micro
• Mythic
• Neuchips
• NeuroBlade
• NextSilicon
• Novumind
• Nyriad
• Occuli
• Ozark Integrated Circuits
• Pensando
• Picocom
• Qadric
• Rain Neuromorphics
• Ramon Space
• RapidSilicon
• RoboSense
• SambaNova Systems
• Semifive
• SiFive
• SiMa.ai
• SiPearl
• Spark Micro
• Speedata
• Syntiant
• Tachyum
• Tenstorrent
• Tetramem
• TriEye
• Vayyar
• Ventana Micro
• Wavious
• Xsight Labs
• Zendar
• Zero ASIC (2020)
  • Removing the barrrier to silicon.

Alumni

Company	Exit	Value	Year
Acacia	IPO	$1B	2016
Agnilux	Google	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
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