Cambium Capital Partners

Cambium Capital Partners is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, focusing on investments in communication & networking, computer hardware, and semiconductor sectors across the United States, Canada, and Europe.

Landon Downs

Managing Partner

David Moehring Ph.D

General Partner

15 past transactions

etherWhere

Series B in 2024
EtherWhere specializes in manufacturing low-power, high-performance IoT chips designed for Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). Their flagship product, the EW6180, is an analog front-end and digital baseband chip that operates independently or via their eCloud mode, allowing designers to optimize parameters based on specific use cases. The company's focus lies in reducing power consumption while enhancing GPS performance.

Black Semiconductor

Series A in 2024
Black Semiconductor is a technology company focused on graphene integrated photonics. It develops photonic circuits directly fabricated on silicon-scale electronics, enabling chip-to-chip communication at higher data transfer rates, over longer distances, with reduced energy consumption. By combining electronics and photonics on a single wafer, the company aims to overcome bandwidth and energy limits of traditional copper interconnects. The approach uses graphene to connect electrical signals and light, offering CMOS-compatible processing that fits into existing chip production pipelines. This enables faster, more energy-efficient data transfer and scalable integration for data centers and other computing applications. The company is advancing a scalable 300mm wafer pilot line and has established fabrication facilities in Aachen, Germany (FabOne) to support scalable production.

Elve

Series A in 2024
Elve is a manufacturer specializing in high-efficiency, lightweight millimeter wave and near-terahertz power amplifiers designed to enhance wireless connectivity. The company focuses on developing advanced technologies that facilitate fiber-like wireless internet links, thereby improving the overall online experience for users. By integrating agile manufacturing techniques into their vacuum electronic devices, Elve aims to provide innovative solutions that support widespread connectivity in various applications.

Falcomm

Seed Round in 2023
Falcomm is a fabless integrated circuit design startup focused on providing energy-efficient power amplifier and front-end module products for the 5G mmWave market. The company addresses a critical challenge in 5G communication—enhancing transmitter power and efficiency—by developing a patented technology known as the Dual-Drive power amplifier (PA). This innovative design surpasses the long-standing theoretical efficiency limit of 78.5%, achieving drain efficiencies that are 20% higher than existing state-of-the-art power amplifiers in the mmWave frequency range. Fully tested and verified, Falcomm's technology is compatible with the latest 5G NR modulation standards, delivering Gb/s data rates with remarkable efficiency. By improving the efficiency and thermal performance of power amplifiers, Falcomm's products can significantly reduce thermal management costs and simplify system requirements for various manufacturers, including those in base stations, mobile devices, and radar systems.

Exostellar

Series A in 2023
Exostellar is a technology company that specializes in cloud resource management and optimization, focusing on enhancing cost efficiency in cloud computing. Founded in 2018 and based in Ithaca, New York, the company leverages exclusive license agreements for patent-pending technologies developed at Cornell University, integrating artificial intelligence and machine learning into its solutions. Exostellar offers tools such as X-Spot, which dynamically relocates containers between spot and regular instances, and X-Consolidate, which optimizes container usage based on workload fluctuations. The platform combines application containers and virtual machines, allowing for portable architecture and live migration of stateful workloads, ultimately helping enterprises to significantly reduce cloud computing expenses while improving reliability and performance.

Numem

Series A in 2023
Numem specializes in advanced memory products using MRAM and ReRAM technologies. It offers secure, low-power storage solutions, improving performance, power efficiency, and data robustness for applications such as IoT, wearables, AI engines, security systems, autonomous vehicles, and data centers.

3D Glass Solutions

Series C in 2023
3D Glass Solutions designs and manufactures glass-based system-in-package electronic packaging devices and components, and provides design and device consultation and prototyping services. The company serves integrated circuit manufacturers, photonic component suppliers, and defense contractors, leveraging glass-enabled systems integration to consolidate components onto a single platform while reducing manufacturing costs. It utilizes APEX Glass technology to fabricate electronic systems with photo-definable glass ceramics, offering low-loss photosensitive processes, through-glass vias, substrate stacking, and photonic integration. These capabilities support applications in wireless infrastructure, aerospace and defense, photonics, sensors, and AI. The business originated in 2006 and is based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Rapid Silicon

Series A in 2023
Rapid Silicon develops AI-enabled, domain-specific field-programmable gate arrays and FPGA system-on-chips for telecommunications, data processing, automotive (including autonomous driving) and industrial applications. It emphasizes a fast design-to-silicon experience by integrating AI-powered approaches with open-source methodologies to optimize power, performance and area.

Exostellar

Series A in 2022
Exostellar is a technology company that specializes in cloud resource management and optimization, focusing on enhancing cost efficiency in cloud computing. Founded in 2018 and based in Ithaca, New York, the company leverages exclusive license agreements for patent-pending technologies developed at Cornell University, integrating artificial intelligence and machine learning into its solutions. Exostellar offers tools such as X-Spot, which dynamically relocates containers between spot and regular instances, and X-Consolidate, which optimizes container usage based on workload fluctuations. The platform combines application containers and virtual machines, allowing for portable architecture and live migration of stateful workloads, ultimately helping enterprises to significantly reduce cloud computing expenses while improving reliability and performance.

Black Semiconductor

Venture Round in 2022
Black Semiconductor is a technology company focused on graphene integrated photonics. It develops photonic circuits directly fabricated on silicon-scale electronics, enabling chip-to-chip communication at higher data transfer rates, over longer distances, with reduced energy consumption. By combining electronics and photonics on a single wafer, the company aims to overcome bandwidth and energy limits of traditional copper interconnects. The approach uses graphene to connect electrical signals and light, offering CMOS-compatible processing that fits into existing chip production pipelines. This enables faster, more energy-efficient data transfer and scalable integration for data centers and other computing applications. The company is advancing a scalable 300mm wafer pilot line and has established fabrication facilities in Aachen, Germany (FabOne) to support scalable production.

Rapid Silicon

Seed Round in 2021
Rapid Silicon develops AI-enabled, domain-specific field-programmable gate arrays and FPGA system-on-chips for telecommunications, data processing, automotive (including autonomous driving) and industrial applications. It emphasizes a fast design-to-silicon experience by integrating AI-powered approaches with open-source methodologies to optimize power, performance and area.

IonQ

Series B in 2020
IonQ is a quantum computing company that develops general-purpose quantum information processors based on trapped-ion technology. Its approach enables qubit replication, optical networkability, and optimized algorithms to support scalable quantum computation beyond classical capabilities. Founded in 2015 and based in College Park, Maryland, IonQ offers access to its quantum computers through cloud platforms, providing quantum-computing-as-a-service to a broad user base and select customers through its own cloud service. Revenue streams include QCaaS arrangements and related consulting and co-development contracts for algorithm design and system integration.

SeeQC

Seed Round in 2019
SeeQC develops application-specific quantum computing systems using superconducting qubits. It serves industries such as machine learning/AI, logistics optimization, quantum chemistry, pharmaceuticals, and fintech globally. Founded in 2018, SeeQC is headquartered in Elmsford, New York with facilities in London, UK, and Naples, Italy.

IonQ

Secondary Market in 2019
IonQ is a quantum computing company that develops general-purpose quantum information processors based on trapped-ion technology. Its approach enables qubit replication, optical networkability, and optimized algorithms to support scalable quantum computation beyond classical capabilities. Founded in 2015 and based in College Park, Maryland, IonQ offers access to its quantum computers through cloud platforms, providing quantum-computing-as-a-service to a broad user base and select customers through its own cloud service. Revenue streams include QCaaS arrangements and related consulting and co-development contracts for algorithm design and system integration.

Groq

Venture Round in 2018
Groq is a company that develops AI inference technology and accelerators, designing Tensor Streaming Processor architecture that delivers high performance per watt for AI, machine learning, and deep learning workloads to enable scalable, energy-efficient inference for cloud and on-prem deployments, while providing deterministic performance that yields predictable compute times for any given workload and simplifies qualification and deployment. Founded in 2016 and based in Mountain View, California, Groq focuses on high-throughput, low-latency processors that support large-scale AI deployments.
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