Applied Ventures

Applied Ventures, LLC is the venture capital fund of Applied Materials, Inc., a global leader in nanomanufacturing technology solutions for the electronics industry. The firm focuses on investing in early-stage technology companies that align with Applied Materials' core expertise. With a mission to stimulate growth in applications for semiconductors, displays, solar PV, and related products and services, Applied Ventures seeks opportunities in areas such as IoT, 3D Printing, robotics, genomics/biologics breakthrough technologies, and more. The firm typically invests between $0.50 million and $3 million per round, with the capability to invest up to $50 million annually. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Applied Ventures also has an office in Menlo Park.

Blair Georgakas

Senior Associate

Anand Kamannavar

Global Head

Saewook Lee

Senior Investment Manager

Frank Lee

Investment Director

Brad McManus

Investment Director

Omkaram Nalamasu

President

Rajesh Ramanujam

Investment Director

John Wei

Investment Director

100 past transactions

Leading Edge Crystal Technologies, Inc. engages in the development and manufacturing of silicon wafers that fit into existing module manufacturing processes without any changes. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Infinite Power Solutions

Series C in 2010
Infinite Power Solutions, Inc. (IPS), a U.S. based clean-technology company, is the global leader in developing, marketing and manufacturing solid-state, rechargeable thin-film micro-energy storage devices for a variety of micro-electronic applications. Founded in 2001, IPS is privately held with corporate headquarters and manufacturing facilities in the western suburbs of [Denver, CO](http://www.crunchbase.com/maps/search?range=10&geo=denver,+co). The company has completed the build-out of the world's first volume manufacturing facility dedicated to the production of its revolutionary thin-film micro-energy cell (MEC(TM)) products (often referred to as thin-film batteries). IPS has recently commenced pre-production activities at this state-of-the-art facility to address growing demand among customers in the wireless sensor, active RFID, powered smart card, medical device, consumer electronics, automotive and civil/military/aerospace markets

Adaptive3D

Series A in 2019
Adaptive3D is the premium additive manufacturing polymer resin supplier. They partner with global leaders to deliver solutions for functional end use products and prototypes.

Exo

Series B in 2020
Exo is a medical device startup handheld ultrasound platform and AI for imaging and therapeutic applications. The company is committed to delivering affordable and easy-to-use medical imaging to healthcare professionals around the world. By delivering easy-to-use, high-quality medical imaging. Exo empowers healthcare professionals to make critical, real-time decisions that improve patient outcomes. The Exo ultrasound platform combines advances in nano-materials, novel sensor technologies, advanced signal processing, and computation with the economies of scale of semiconductor manufacturing to dramatically reduce the cost of imaging. It also represents a giant leap in imaging and therapeutics technology one that will drive the development of high-performance products that are accessible, easy-to-use, and available at a price point never before possible.

Ultivue

Series D in 2021
Ultivue is a biotechnology company that specializes in tissue imaging, diagnostics, and multiplexing. Ultivue produces reagents that enable researchers to obtain microscopic images at an unprecedented resolution that helps to understand of biology and medicine. Ultivue's products are designed for fluorescent microscopy-based research and will eventually be valuable for clinical diagnostic use. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

SES

Series D in 2021
SolidEnergy Systems Corp. develops and manufactures rechargeable lithium metal batteries for application in drones, watches and wearables, smartphones, and electric cars. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Woburn, Massachusetts.

Vesper

Venture Round in 2021
Vesper Technologies Inc. develops and manufactures piezoelectric MEMS microphones. It offers its products for various microphone array applications in mobile handsets, tablets, and other products. The company was formerly known as Sonify. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

MTPV

Series B in 2012
MTPV Power Corporation is a clean energy company that focuses on innovations in Micron-gap ThermalPhotoVoltaics technology (MTPV). MTPV technology began development at MIT and Draper Laboratory before moving to the labs of MTPV Power Corporation. It was founded in 2003 and headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Cornami

Series C in 2022
CORMANI™ is a high performance computing (HPC) company that increases compute performance significantly, made possible by the development of its breakthrough and patented multi-core technology that efficiently uses heterogeneous cores in a highly concurrent, parallel manner. This technology will reduce the use of power sources and lower latency, while vastly increasing the compute performance of products and their ROI in a variety of markets, with the Company’s initial focus being Big Data.

Inpria

Venture Round in 2014
Inpria Corporation is a pioneer in extending semiconductor lithography with inorganic photoresists and other thin-films for nanoscale patterning. Inpria’s patented photo-condensed molecular oxides offer customers the unique ability to deposit – directly from solution – atomically smooth, intrinsically dense, and directly photopatternable metal oxide films, enabling advanced performance with simplified processing.

Ionblox

Series B in 2023
Zenlabs has developed proprietary silicon-based formulations that offer higher specific capacity, longer cycle life, and lower cost. Zenlabs' anodes are unique in their high loading level and high active silicon content. In addition, Zenlabs has solved the common problems with silicon based anodes such as poor cycling and swelling. Zenlabs combines these high capacity anodes with high capacity cathode materials in large format pouch cells to achieve energy densities that are much higher than what is commercially available.

Enphase Energy

Venture Round in 2010
A micro-inverter system that delivers solar energy to homes and businesses

Metalenz

Series A in 2021
Metalenz develops novel optical elements that exploit structured Huygens' surfaces (metamaterial structures) for controlling wavefronts, polarization, and other properties of light. It provides ultra-thin planar optics for high-resolution full-color imaging and making the lenses used by mobile phones, computers, and other electronic devices smaller that enable businesses using the optical lenses to get miniaturized, lighter alternatives to established lenses.

eXo Imaging, Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
eXo Imaging, Inc. develops an ultrasound platform and artificial intelligence (AI) for imaging and therapeutic applications. Its ultrasound platform includes a transducer technology that combines nano materials and advanced signal processing for imaging the whole body. The company’s ultrasound platform also includes a micro-machined ultrasound technology (pMUT) that marries nanoscale piezoelectric materials with semiconductor capabilities. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Redwood City, California.

SAGE Electrochromics

Series B in 2007
SAGE Electrochromics, Inc. engages in the manufacture and sale of insulating glass units and control systems to window and skylight manufacturers in the residential marketplace. The company also provides windows, skylights, and curtain walls for commercial and institutional buildings. It offers its products to owner-occupied office spaces, museums, libraries, art galleries, health care facilities, religious facilities, aviation facilities, high-tech or image buildings, and atriums and overhead daylight openings. SAGE Electrochromics, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is based in Faribault, Minnesota. As of November 10, 2010, SAGE Electrochromics, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Saint-Gobain.

Liquavista

Series D in 2010
Liquavista B.V., a display manufacturing company, develops electro-wetting displays in the Netherlands and internationally. It offers LiquavistaBright that offers a combination of brightness in natural light and bold contrast to video; LiquavistaColor, which enables eReader devices to offer bright, full color, and low power video capable displays; and LiquavistaVivid, a transflective mode display, which represents the eReader application. Its products are used in portable and mobile applications, such as phones, watches, cameras, DVD players, and automotive applications. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands with additional offices in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Hong Kong.

MakinaRocks

Series A in 2020
Founded in December 2017, MakinaRocks is a startup specializing in industrial machine intelligence solutions. Our anomaly detection model and intelligent control algorithm analyze sensor and numeric data to provide intelligent control, improve product quality, and detect anomalies in manufacturing equipment. We deliver our industrial AI solutions to manufacturing industries such as semiconductor, automotive, battery, and energy.

Adaptive 3D Technologies, LLC

Private Placement in 2019
Adaptive 3D Technologies, LLC manufactures and supplies polymer resin for additive manufacturing and specialty end applications. Its products include Elastic ToughRubber, which is used in shoe midsoles and heel cups, seals, door boots, bellows, foam-like lattice structures, and impact parts; Soft ToughRubber that is used in audio ear buds, wearable electronics, and anatomical medical models; and Damping ToughRubber, which is a 3D-printable photopolymer. It also engages in printing and processing rubber-like materials, tough damping materials, and low-cure stress photopolymers. It serves consumer, healthcare, industrial, transportation, and oil and gas sectors. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Plano, Texas.

Innolume

Series C in 2008
Innolume has invented a novel comb laser light engine for short-reach optical interconnects between and within computers. Economical wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) is enabled by this class of low-cost, low-power Fabry-Perot lasers. WDM, familiar from telecom, provides an efficient alternative to multiple lasers and underutilized parallel fiber/waveguides, reducing short-reach system cost and power.

SuNAM

Series A in 2016
SuNam Co.,Ltd, green energy material technology venture enterprise founded in 2004 had commercialized technologies in the fields of superconductors, nano and advanced materials, under the company's MOTO, "commercial developments for the environmentally friendly and high energy-efficient technologies realization," especially high temperature superconducting second-generation wires and its applications including the backup system supply.

Wakonda Technologies

Series A in 2008
Wakonda Technologies was founded in 2005 by Dr. Les Fritzemeier and Professor Ryne Raffaelle of the Rochester Institute of Technology. The company was established to exploit the intersection of their respective skills in metallurgical processing and advanced photovoltaic devices. Wakonda was started in Rochester NY and used the facilities at RIT, Cornell University and several government agencies to conduct proof of concept experiments. In 2008, the company moved to Massachusetts to accelerate product development and early commercialization. Wakonda has received several honors over its short history, winning the first ever Golden Horseshoe Business Challenge in upstate NY and being named the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's Entrepreneur of the Year in 2007.

Antaios

Private Placement in 2020
Antaios develops innovative memory technology. Antaios is fully engaged in bringing the technology to the market to help chip manufacturers solve the critical issue of exploding power requests in advanced semiconductor systems.

SunEdison

Post in 2008
SunEdison is your trusted partner for innovative, intelligent energy solutions around the globe. We have built our business by putting our customers first, and focusing on addressing each customer's unique solar energy needs. Through our integrated service approach, we partner with you, help you navigate your way through the solar landscape and offer uniquely tailored solutions and flexible financing.

ClearEdge Power

Series C in 2007
About ClearEdge Power: ClearEdge Power provides clean, critical and secure energy solutions that scale from 5 kW to multiple megawatts. As the most experienced fuel cell producer, ClearEdge Power is transforming power generation with innovative solutions that help customers reduce electricity bills, improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions. For more information, please visit http://www.clearedgepower.com.

Norsk Titanium

Venture Round in 2016
Norsk Titanium AS designs and manufactures 3D-printed, structural titanium production machinery for the aerospace industry. Its products include MERKE IV and Gen-4 Machine. The company’s products are based on its patented technology, Rapid Plasma Deposition (RPD). It offers its products to aerospace, defense, and commercial customers, including the oil and gas industry. Norsk Titanium AS was formerly known as Norsk Titanium Components AS. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Hønefoss, Norway. It has a product development and qualification center in Plattsburgh, New York. Norsk Titanium AS operates as a subsidiary of Scatec AS.

Infinite Power Solutions

Venture Round in 2006
Infinite Power Solutions, Inc. (IPS), a U.S. based clean-technology company, is the global leader in developing, marketing and manufacturing solid-state, rechargeable thin-film micro-energy storage devices for a variety of micro-electronic applications. Founded in 2001, IPS is privately held with corporate headquarters and manufacturing facilities in the western suburbs of [Denver, CO](http://www.crunchbase.com/maps/search?range=10&geo=denver,+co). The company has completed the build-out of the world's first volume manufacturing facility dedicated to the production of its revolutionary thin-film micro-energy cell (MEC(TM)) products (often referred to as thin-film batteries). IPS has recently commenced pre-production activities at this state-of-the-art facility to address growing demand among customers in the wireless sensor, active RFID, powered smart card, medical device, consumer electronics, automotive and civil/military/aerospace markets

Ayar Labs

Private Placement in 2020
Ayar Labs, Inc. develops optical interconnect chiplets and lasers. It offers TeraPHY, a high-density electronic-photonic chiplet and monolithic in-package optical I/O (MIPO I/O) solution. The company also provides SuperNova, a multiwavelength, multi-port light source that supplies the continuous wave (CW) light that powers TeraPHY. Its products are used in various industry verticals, such as artificial intelligence and high performance computing, cloud computing and telecommunications, aerospace and military, and light detection and ranging. Ayar Labs, Inc. was formerly known as OptiBit Inc. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Emeryville, California with an additional office in Santa Clara, California.

Inpria

Venture Round in 2014
Inpria Corporation is a pioneer in extending semiconductor lithography with inorganic photoresists and other thin-films for nanoscale patterning. Inpria’s patented photo-condensed molecular oxides offer customers the unique ability to deposit – directly from solution – atomically smooth, intrinsically dense, and directly photopatternable metal oxide films, enabling advanced performance with simplified processing.

Semprius

Series C in 2011
Semprius, Inc. engages in the design, development, manufacture, and supply of high concentration photovoltaic (HCPV) solar modules. The company offers its HCPV solar modules to generate solar energy. Its HCPV solar modules serve utility, commercial/industrial, and government/military applications in sunny and dry locations worldwide. The company delivers its products through integrators and EPCs. Semprius, Inc. was formerly known as pSi-tech, Inc. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Durham, North Carolina.

Point Engineering

Series A in 2017
Point Engineering is the leading manufacturing company for precision parts and material based on fine machining and surface treatment technology.

MakinaRocks

Private Placement in 2020
Founded in December 2017, MakinaRocks is a startup specializing in industrial machine intelligence solutions. Our anomaly detection model and intelligent control algorithm analyze sensor and numeric data to provide intelligent control, improve product quality, and detect anomalies in manufacturing equipment. We deliver our industrial AI solutions to manufacturing industries such as semiconductor, automotive, battery, and energy.

Inpria

Series C in 2020
Inpria Corporation is a pioneer in extending semiconductor lithography with inorganic photoresists and other thin-films for nanoscale patterning. Inpria’s patented photo-condensed molecular oxides offer customers the unique ability to deposit – directly from solution – atomically smooth, intrinsically dense, and directly photopatternable metal oxide films, enabling advanced performance with simplified processing.

Inpria

Series B in 2017
Inpria Corporation is a pioneer in extending semiconductor lithography with inorganic photoresists and other thin-films for nanoscale patterning. Inpria’s patented photo-condensed molecular oxides offer customers the unique ability to deposit – directly from solution – atomically smooth, intrinsically dense, and directly photopatternable metal oxide films, enabling advanced performance with simplified processing.

Metalenz

Seed Round in 2017
Metalenz develops novel optical elements that exploit structured Huygens' surfaces (metamaterial structures) for controlling wavefronts, polarization, and other properties of light. It provides ultra-thin planar optics for high-resolution full-color imaging and making the lenses used by mobile phones, computers, and other electronic devices smaller that enable businesses using the optical lenses to get miniaturized, lighter alternatives to established lenses.

Grandis

Series A in 2003
Grandis is the pioneer in developing and licensing innovative non-volatile memory solutions derived from cutting-edge research in spintronics. Its mission is to enable revolutionary products through application of the electron's spin to store, manipulate and transmit information.

Avegant

Series B in 2017
Avegant is a technology company developing next-generation display technology to enable previously impossible augmented reality experiences. The company uses its deep scientific understanding of human sight and head-mounted display ergonomics together with its consumer electronics manufacturing experience to develop displays that enable realistic AR experiences for consumers. Avegant was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Belmont, California.

Lumiode

Series A in 2017
Lumiode is a New York City-based semiconductor technology startup specializing in high-brightness microdisplays for augmented reality and other display applications. Lumiode is venture-backed by IP Group and Applied Ventures.

Playnitride

Series E in 2019
PlayNitride group is a MicroLED products and solutions provider, with its proprietary PixeLED display technology. In addition to traditional display applications, the PixeLED display technology, which can be applied for high-performance displays with very high resolution, high contrast ratio, high aperture ratio, fast response, and very low power consumption. They developing key technologies, providing different products or solutions of MicroLED displays. Playnitride was founded in 2014 and is based in Miaoli, T'ai-wan, Taiwan.

Spin Memory

Series B in 2018
Spin Transfer Technologies, Inc. was established by Allied Minds and New York University to develop and commercialize its orthogonal spin transfer magnetoresistive random access memory technology, OST-MRAM. The technology, discovered by Professor Andrew Kent, has enormous implications for the development of spin transfer MRAM devices, including faster switching times, lower power operation and scalability to smaller dimensions.

ClearEdge Power

Series B in 2006
About ClearEdge Power: ClearEdge Power provides clean, critical and secure energy solutions that scale from 5 kW to multiple megawatts. As the most experienced fuel cell producer, ClearEdge Power is transforming power generation with innovative solutions that help customers reduce electricity bills, improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions. For more information, please visit http://www.clearedgepower.com.

Rayvio

Series B in 2016
RayVio Corp. is an advanced health and hygiene company that delivers clean water and environments. RayVio helps protect billions from germs and creates new markets and revenue streams by enabling a new class of products. Its powerful and efficient UV LED technology can be integrated into a variety of applications, powering versatile on-demand solutions that give consumers control over health without chemicals or costly consumables. To learn more, please visit www.rayvio.com.

SES

Series C in 2017
SolidEnergy Systems Corp. develops and manufactures rechargeable lithium metal batteries for application in drones, watches and wearables, smartphones, and electric cars. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Woburn, Massachusetts.

M-Stream

Series A in 2003
M-Stream develops chips for improved reception of voice, video, music and heavy multimedia for second, 2.5, and third-generation cellular communication systems. The start-up raised $1.5 million in its first round of financing in March 2003, at which time it also signed its first agreement with Broadcom. Aside from the $750,000 injection, the deal included an option to buy the company depending on its reaching certain goals.

BT Imaging

Series A in 2010
BT Imaging is the market leader for electrical-inspection equipment used in the manufacturing of silicon blocks, silicon solar wafers and silicon solar cells.

Rayvio

Series B in 2015
RayVio Corp. is an advanced health and hygiene company that delivers clean water and environments. RayVio helps protect billions from germs and creates new markets and revenue streams by enabling a new class of products. Its powerful and efficient UV LED technology can be integrated into a variety of applications, powering versatile on-demand solutions that give consumers control over health without chemicals or costly consumables. To learn more, please visit www.rayvio.com.

TXOne Networks

Series B in 2024
TXOne Networks offers cybersecurity solutions to the protection of industrial control systems, ensuring reliability and safety from cyberattacks.

VVDN Technologies

Venture Round in 2024
VVDN is a Product Engineering & Manufacturing company focused on designing & manufacturing end-to-end products across several technology vertical markets (5G, Data Center, Vision, Networking, Wi-Fi, IoT, Defense, Cloud & Apps). VVDN’s India HQ is located at Gurgaon, India and its North America HQ’s is located in San Jose, CA, USA. VVDN serves global customers across several regions including US, Canada, Europe, India, Vietnam, Korea, and Japan. VVDN's business model includes Product Engineering Services and ODM Services. VVDN’s Product Engineering Team Strength is 2,500+ and VVDN’s Manufacturing Strength is 3,000+ in staff. VVDN has 9 advanced Product Engineering Centers in India, which are fully equipped to design & test the complete hardware & software required to develop a complete product or solution. VVDN’s Manufacturing facilities are located at Manesar, Gurgaon, India which includes in-house best-in-class SMT Factory, Molding & Tooling Factory, Product Assembly Factory, and Product Certifications labs. VVDN’s Engineering & Manufacturing facilities are fully complied to develop & manufacture Enterprise, Consumer, Industrial, and Automotive-grade products.

3d Glass Solutions

Series C in 2023
3D Glass Solutions, Inc. manufactures glass-based system-in-package (SiP) electronic packaging devices and components. It also offers design and device consultation, and prototyping. The company serves to integrated circuit manufacturers, photonic component suppliers, and defense contractors. 3D Glass Solutions, Inc. was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Leadoptik

Venture Round in 2023
Leadoptik is a California-based company is currently operating in stealth mode.

Syntiant

Private Placement in 2018
Syntiant is moving artificial intelligence and machine learning from the cloud to edge devices. Syntiant’s advanced chip solutions merge deep learning with semiconductor design to produce ultra-low-power, high performance, deep neural network processors for always-on applications in battery-powered devices, such as smartphones, smart speakers, earbuds, hearing aids, and laptops. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

Infinite Power Solutions

Series B in 2008
Infinite Power Solutions, Inc. (IPS), a U.S. based clean-technology company, is the global leader in developing, marketing and manufacturing solid-state, rechargeable thin-film micro-energy storage devices for a variety of micro-electronic applications. Founded in 2001, IPS is privately held with corporate headquarters and manufacturing facilities in the western suburbs of [Denver, CO](http://www.crunchbase.com/maps/search?range=10&geo=denver,+co). The company has completed the build-out of the world's first volume manufacturing facility dedicated to the production of its revolutionary thin-film micro-energy cell (MEC(TM)) products (often referred to as thin-film batteries). IPS has recently commenced pre-production activities at this state-of-the-art facility to address growing demand among customers in the wireless sensor, active RFID, powered smart card, medical device, consumer electronics, automotive and civil/military/aerospace markets

Staked us

Seed Round in 2019
Staked, LLC provides an infrastructure that assists institutional investors of digital currencies to compound crypto holdings through staking and lending. The company offers SLA for block rewards, automatic payouts, and detailed reporting. It supports staking and lending across various proof-of-stake currencies. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Becket, Massachusetts.

Antaios

Series A in 2020
Antaios develops innovative memory technology. Antaios is fully engaged in bringing the technology to the market to help chip manufacturers solve the critical issue of exploding power requests in advanced semiconductor systems.

Spin Memory

Private Placement in 2018
Spin Transfer Technologies, Inc. was established by Allied Minds and New York University to develop and commercialize its orthogonal spin transfer magnetoresistive random access memory technology, OST-MRAM. The technology, discovered by Professor Andrew Kent, has enormous implications for the development of spin transfer MRAM devices, including faster switching times, lower power operation and scalability to smaller dimensions.

Ultivue

Series C in 2019
Ultivue is a biotechnology company that specializes in tissue imaging, diagnostics, and multiplexing. Ultivue produces reagents that enable researchers to obtain microscopic images at an unprecedented resolution that helps to understand of biology and medicine. Ultivue's products are designed for fluorescent microscopy-based research and will eventually be valuable for clinical diagnostic use. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Infinitum

Series D in 2022
Infinitum Electric is a motor technology company delivering lightweight and IoT-enabled electric motors. It is at the forefront of making electric motors more efficient, more durable, lighter weight, and less expensive. Their disruptive motor and control products utilize their patent-pending Printed Circuit Board (PCB) stator technology and provide broad application across multiple industries. They work with global manufacturers and industrial OEMs to customize their technology for specific applications and market segments.

SunEdison

Post in 2008
SunEdison is your trusted partner for innovative, intelligent energy solutions around the globe. We have built our business by putting our customers first, and focusing on addressing each customer's unique solar energy needs. Through our integrated service approach, we partner with you, help you navigate your way through the solar landscape and offer uniquely tailored solutions and flexible financing.

Syntiant

Series D in 2022
Syntiant is moving artificial intelligence and machine learning from the cloud to edge devices. Syntiant’s advanced chip solutions merge deep learning with semiconductor design to produce ultra-low-power, high performance, deep neural network processors for always-on applications in battery-powered devices, such as smartphones, smart speakers, earbuds, hearing aids, and laptops. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

Exo

Venture Round in 2017
Exo is a medical device startup handheld ultrasound platform and AI for imaging and therapeutic applications. The company is committed to delivering affordable and easy-to-use medical imaging to healthcare professionals around the world. By delivering easy-to-use, high-quality medical imaging. Exo empowers healthcare professionals to make critical, real-time decisions that improve patient outcomes. The Exo ultrasound platform combines advances in nano-materials, novel sensor technologies, advanced signal processing, and computation with the economies of scale of semiconductor manufacturing to dramatically reduce the cost of imaging. It also represents a giant leap in imaging and therapeutics technology one that will drive the development of high-performance products that are accessible, easy-to-use, and available at a price point never before possible.

SES

Venture Round in 2016
SolidEnergy Systems Corp. develops and manufactures rechargeable lithium metal batteries for application in drones, watches and wearables, smartphones, and electric cars. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Woburn, Massachusetts.

ENKI Technologies

Seed Round in 2017
ENKI Technologies is an information technology company creating web and mobile applications. They innovate and develop new software that serves real needs and translate abstract ideas into concrete software solutions that assist in increasing efficiency, productivity, and profits. They also decode convoluted texts and expert jargon into meaningful clear user-centric texts that get you in direct touch with the reader. ENKI Technologies tech solutions are designed to help you leverage your business whether you need a website, mobile app or custom software. In order to grow value, you need a strong tech partner who understands your future needs. ENKI Technologies was founded in 2013 and is based in Santa Monica, California, USA.

Electroninks

Series A in 2016
Electroninks Incorporated develops materials platform for consumer electronics. Its products include kits and bundles, modules, and pens and accessories. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Austin, Texas with additional offices in Silicon Valley, Korea, and China.

Scintil Photonics

Venture Round in 2022
SCINTIL Photonics is a fabless company that develops silicon photonic integrated circuits. SCINTIL solutions combine the best of Silicon (Si) and Indium Phosphide (InP) materials using wafer-scale bonding of InP on Si and rely on commercial silicon foundry processes to build fully integrated photonic circuits (comprising multi-wavelength lasers, waveguides, wavelength filters, and photodetectors).

Adesto Technologies

Series A in 2008
Adesto Technologies Corporation, Inc. operates as a silicon valley fabless semiconductor company. The company develops next-generation ultralow-power embedded non-volatile memory technology. Adesto Technologies Corporation, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is based in Sunnyvale, California.

Rockley Photonics

Private Placement in 2020
Rockley Photonics manufactures photonics chips and custom integrated packaged products. It offers products for broad market applications ranging from communications to consumers. The company is focused on sales of chipsets plus the customer-specific design of photonics chips and custom integrated packaged products. In this way, Rockley Photonics leverages its investment in photonics platform research and process development across broader market applications. Rockley Photonics was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Pasadena, CA.

iosil Energy

Private Equity Round in 2012
Iosil Energy Corporation produces "high purity polysilicon," the essential raw material for solar cells. The Corporation was founded in 2007, with its R&D facilities located in the National Institute for Nanotechnology In Edmonton, Alberta. The company has demonstrated its ability to produce high-purity solar grade polysilicon from the waste material (or “kerf”) created by wafer sawing operations, saving costs.

Ultivue

Private Placement in 2018
Ultivue is a biotechnology company that specializes in tissue imaging, diagnostics, and multiplexing. Ultivue produces reagents that enable researchers to obtain microscopic images at an unprecedented resolution that helps to understand of biology and medicine. Ultivue's products are designed for fluorescent microscopy-based research and will eventually be valuable for clinical diagnostic use. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

ClearEdge Power

Venture Round in 2009
About ClearEdge Power: ClearEdge Power provides clean, critical and secure energy solutions that scale from 5 kW to multiple megawatts. As the most experienced fuel cell producer, ClearEdge Power is transforming power generation with innovative solutions that help customers reduce electricity bills, improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions. For more information, please visit http://www.clearedgepower.com.

Infinite Power Solutions

Series D in 2012
Infinite Power Solutions, Inc. (IPS), a U.S. based clean-technology company, is the global leader in developing, marketing and manufacturing solid-state, rechargeable thin-film micro-energy storage devices for a variety of micro-electronic applications. Founded in 2001, IPS is privately held with corporate headquarters and manufacturing facilities in the western suburbs of [Denver, CO](http://www.crunchbase.com/maps/search?range=10&geo=denver,+co). The company has completed the build-out of the world's first volume manufacturing facility dedicated to the production of its revolutionary thin-film micro-energy cell (MEC(TM)) products (often referred to as thin-film batteries). IPS has recently commenced pre-production activities at this state-of-the-art facility to address growing demand among customers in the wireless sensor, active RFID, powered smart card, medical device, consumer electronics, automotive and civil/military/aerospace markets

Electroninks

Series A in 2017
Electroninks Incorporated develops materials platform for consumer electronics. Its products include kits and bundles, modules, and pens and accessories. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Austin, Texas with additional offices in Silicon Valley, Korea, and China.

Grandis

Venture Round in 2005
Grandis is the pioneer in developing and licensing innovative non-volatile memory solutions derived from cutting-edge research in spintronics. Its mission is to enable revolutionary products through application of the electron's spin to store, manipulate and transmit information.

Solaicx

Series C in 2007
Solaicx, manufactures and sells mono-crystalline silicon ingots and wafers. It serves solar cell and module manufacturers in the photovoltaic industry. Solaicx, was founded in 2002 and is based in Santa Clara, California with a production facility in Portland, Oregon.

Ultivue

Private Placement in 2019
Ultivue is a biotechnology company that specializes in tissue imaging, diagnostics, and multiplexing. Ultivue produces reagents that enable researchers to obtain microscopic images at an unprecedented resolution that helps to understand of biology and medicine. Ultivue's products are designed for fluorescent microscopy-based research and will eventually be valuable for clinical diagnostic use. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Devicescape

Series B in 2005
Devicescape offers Wi-Fi software solutions that makes mobile devices easy to set up, easy to use, and effortlessly connect to any Wi-Fi network. Unlike piecemeal technologies and clumsy reference software, Devicescape's Easy Wi-Fi product is comprehensive, easy to integrate and backed by industry veterans and a world-class team of software experts and support staff. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, the company is privately held and backed by leading venture capital companies including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, August Capital, Enterprise Partners, and JAFCO.

Translarity

Series B in 2009
Translarity is an innovator in the semiconductor wafer test industry, focused on the advanced probe card market. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Translarity brings a disruptive change to the world of semiconductor test by offering a full-wafer test with low cost, high performance, and short cycle time. Translarity acquired BucklingBeam in 2017 to expand its offerings and deliver a full suite of probe card solutions, including full probe cards and vertical probe head solutions. Combined with the company’s advanced Space Translator™ space transformer technology, the company addresses the rapid state of acceleration in probe technologies. Translarity’s proven management team, backed by strong financial investors, recruited a dynamic team of top industry talent to address the unmet challenges in building the Wafer Translator™ technology. In creating the Translarity solution, the team developed a fertile innovation pipeline and a strong IP portfolio, with more than 45 patents already issued and more than 50 filed.

Syntiant

Series C in 2020
Syntiant is moving artificial intelligence and machine learning from the cloud to edge devices. Syntiant’s advanced chip solutions merge deep learning with semiconductor design to produce ultra-low-power, high performance, deep neural network processors for always-on applications in battery-powered devices, such as smartphones, smart speakers, earbuds, hearing aids, and laptops. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

Rockley Photonics

Venture Round in 2020
Rockley Photonics manufactures photonics chips and custom integrated packaged products. It offers products for broad market applications ranging from communications to consumers. The company is focused on sales of chipsets plus the customer-specific design of photonics chips and custom integrated packaged products. In this way, Rockley Photonics leverages its investment in photonics platform research and process development across broader market applications. Rockley Photonics was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Pasadena, CA.

Semprius

Series A in 2007
Semprius, Inc. engages in the design, development, manufacture, and supply of high concentration photovoltaic (HCPV) solar modules. The company offers its HCPV solar modules to generate solar energy. Its HCPV solar modules serve utility, commercial/industrial, and government/military applications in sunny and dry locations worldwide. The company delivers its products through integrators and EPCs. Semprius, Inc. was formerly known as pSi-tech, Inc. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Durham, North Carolina.

Adesto Technologies

Venture Round in 2010
Adesto Technologies Corporation, Inc. operates as a silicon valley fabless semiconductor company. The company develops next-generation ultralow-power embedded non-volatile memory technology. Adesto Technologies Corporation, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is based in Sunnyvale, California.

Exo

Series A in 2017
Exo is a medical device startup handheld ultrasound platform and AI for imaging and therapeutic applications. The company is committed to delivering affordable and easy-to-use medical imaging to healthcare professionals around the world. By delivering easy-to-use, high-quality medical imaging. Exo empowers healthcare professionals to make critical, real-time decisions that improve patient outcomes. The Exo ultrasound platform combines advances in nano-materials, novel sensor technologies, advanced signal processing, and computation with the economies of scale of semiconductor manufacturing to dramatically reduce the cost of imaging. It also represents a giant leap in imaging and therapeutics technology one that will drive the development of high-performance products that are accessible, easy-to-use, and available at a price point never before possible.

Semprius

Series B in 2009
Semprius, Inc. engages in the design, development, manufacture, and supply of high concentration photovoltaic (HCPV) solar modules. The company offers its HCPV solar modules to generate solar energy. Its HCPV solar modules serve utility, commercial/industrial, and government/military applications in sunny and dry locations worldwide. The company delivers its products through integrators and EPCs. Semprius, Inc. was formerly known as pSi-tech, Inc. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Durham, North Carolina.

SES

Series B in 2015
SolidEnergy Systems Corp. develops and manufactures rechargeable lithium metal batteries for application in drones, watches and wearables, smartphones, and electric cars. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Woburn, Massachusetts.

Fat Spaniel Technologies

Series B in 2008
Founded in 2003, Fat Spaniel Technologies is the leading independent provider of critical monitoring and reporting services for the renewable energy industry. Today, the company's solutions are utilized by solar power producers, financiers, system integrators, and OEMs, and growing a growing number of wind power companies. Fat Spaniel solutions help optimize energy output, reduce operations and maintenance costs, contain risk, and increase return on investment for renewable energy power plant projects.

Ultivue

Series B in 2018
Ultivue is a biotechnology company that specializes in tissue imaging, diagnostics, and multiplexing. Ultivue produces reagents that enable researchers to obtain microscopic images at an unprecedented resolution that helps to understand of biology and medicine. Ultivue's products are designed for fluorescent microscopy-based research and will eventually be valuable for clinical diagnostic use. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

eXo Imaging, Inc.

Private Placement in 2020
eXo Imaging, Inc. develops an ultrasound platform and artificial intelligence (AI) for imaging and therapeutic applications. Its ultrasound platform includes a transducer technology that combines nano materials and advanced signal processing for imaging the whole body. The company’s ultrasound platform also includes a micro-machined ultrasound technology (pMUT) that marries nanoscale piezoelectric materials with semiconductor capabilities. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Redwood City, California.

MTPV

Series B in 2011
MTPV Power Corporation is a clean energy company that focuses on innovations in Micron-gap ThermalPhotoVoltaics technology (MTPV). MTPV technology began development at MIT and Draper Laboratory before moving to the labs of MTPV Power Corporation. It was founded in 2003 and headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Actacell

Series A in 2008
ActaCell, Inc. is a technology start-up commercializing lithium-ion battery technology developed in the Material Science and Engineering lab at The University of Texas at Austin. This new technology is focused on delivering substantially longer cycle life at low cost while maintaining safety as the number one priority. The Material Science and Engineering program at the University of Texas has a long history of innovation in lithium ion chemistries. The company announced on July 200, 2008 that it secured $5.8 million in Series A financing. DFJ Mercury led the round with syndicate investment from Google.org's RechargeIT program, Applied Ventures, LLC, the venture capital arm of Applied Materials, Inc. and Good Energies. The proceeds from the Series A financing will be used to hire key technical talent and to further develop ActaCell's lithium-ion battery technology for commercial purposes.

Plextronics

Venture Round in 2007
Plextronics specializes in printed electronics. The company's focus is on organic light emitting diode (OLED) displays and lighting, specifically conductive inks and associated process technologies. Plextronic's technology will enable the mass production of these printed devices and therefore lower the cost.

Enphase Energy

Venture Round in 2009
A micro-inverter system that delivers solar energy to homes and businesses

Halation Photonics

Series A in 2012
Halation Photonics Co., Ltd develops and commercializes Multi-stable Liquid Crystal (MSLC) devices and MSLC related system solutions. Halation Photonics Co., Ltd was founded in 2007 and is based in Suzhou, China.

Inpria

Private Placement in 2020
Inpria Corporation is a pioneer in extending semiconductor lithography with inorganic photoresists and other thin-films for nanoscale patterning. Inpria’s patented photo-condensed molecular oxides offer customers the unique ability to deposit – directly from solution – atomically smooth, intrinsically dense, and directly photopatternable metal oxide films, enabling advanced performance with simplified processing.

Syntiant

Private Placement in 2020
Syntiant is moving artificial intelligence and machine learning from the cloud to edge devices. Syntiant’s advanced chip solutions merge deep learning with semiconductor design to produce ultra-low-power, high performance, deep neural network processors for always-on applications in battery-powered devices, such as smartphones, smart speakers, earbuds, hearing aids, and laptops. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

Ayar Labs

Series B in 2020
Ayar Labs, Inc. develops optical interconnect chiplets and lasers. It offers TeraPHY, a high-density electronic-photonic chiplet and monolithic in-package optical I/O (MIPO I/O) solution. The company also provides SuperNova, a multiwavelength, multi-port light source that supplies the continuous wave (CW) light that powers TeraPHY. Its products are used in various industry verticals, such as artificial intelligence and high performance computing, cloud computing and telecommunications, aerospace and military, and light detection and ranging. Ayar Labs, Inc. was formerly known as OptiBit Inc. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Emeryville, California with an additional office in Santa Clara, California.

FlexLight Networks

Series C in 2003
Founded in September 2000 by a dynamic team of high-powered and experienced optical network specialists, FlexLight's suite of optical access products leverages leading-edge technology to deliver a solution that conquers last-mile bandwidth bottlenecks and optimizes service flexibility. FlexLight's seed funding of $9 million comes from America's Coral Ventures, a private venture capital firm that manages more than $300 million of capital in five funds, and from Israel's Concord Venture Capital Fund, a firm that offers exceptional entrepreneurs the capital, guidance and industry contacts they need to become leaders in their field.

Solaicx

Venture Round in 2006
Solaicx, manufactures and sells mono-crystalline silicon ingots and wafers. It serves solar cell and module manufacturers in the photovoltaic industry. Solaicx, was founded in 2002 and is based in Santa Clara, California with a production facility in Portland, Oregon.

Syntiant

Series B in 2018
Syntiant is moving artificial intelligence and machine learning from the cloud to edge devices. Syntiant’s advanced chip solutions merge deep learning with semiconductor design to produce ultra-low-power, high performance, deep neural network processors for always-on applications in battery-powered devices, such as smartphones, smart speakers, earbuds, hearing aids, and laptops. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

Persimmon Technologies

Series B in 2014
Persimmon Technologies Corporation develops, manufactures, and distributes atmospheric and vacuum robotics, vacuum modules, and automation systems in the United States. The company operates as a sales representative for Nidec Sankyo Corporation's atmospheric robotic products in the United States. It serves semiconductor, data storage, LED, OLED, solar, and flat panel display equipment markets. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Wakefield, Massachusetts. As of March 31, 2017, Persimmon Technologies Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.

ANB Sensors

Series A in 2021
ANB Sensors Ltd. designs and develops the next generation pH sensors used for oceanographic, source water, and aquifer monitoring applications. The company offers calibration free pH sensors and solid state pH sensors solutions. Its patented solid-state pH sensor form all solid-state, robust, and calibration free solution. ANB Sensors Ltd. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Haslingfield, United Kingdom.

Ionblox

Series B in 2022
Zenlabs has developed proprietary silicon-based formulations that offer higher specific capacity, longer cycle life, and lower cost. Zenlabs' anodes are unique in their high loading level and high active silicon content. In addition, Zenlabs has solved the common problems with silicon based anodes such as poor cycling and swelling. Zenlabs combines these high capacity anodes with high capacity cathode materials in large format pouch cells to achieve energy densities that are much higher than what is commercially available.