CTC Capital

CTC Capital is a venture capital firm established in 2006 and headquartered in Shanghai, China, with additional offices in Nanjing and Taipei. The firm specializes in investing in sectors such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things (IoT), Industry 4.0, and advanced manufacturing. In April 2021, CTC Capital closed its second RMB fund, raising CNY 3.4 billion, which focuses on semiconductor companies involved in designing chips for applications in AI, data centers, IoT, 5G, and advanced automotive technologies. As of April 2023, this fund is fully invested.

Shanshan Shi

Managing Director (Operations)

24 past transactions

Nanjing Kuanneng Semiconductor

Angel Round in 2022
Nanjing Kuanneng Semiconductor is a provider of semiconductor silicon carbide device foundry services.

EVAS Intelligence

Seed Round in 2022
EVAS Intelligence is an autonomous driving chip startup. The company was founded by Liu Hui.
IKAS Industrial Automation is provides intelligent manufacturing solutions for IC manufacturing and packaging testing, LED, photovoltaic and other pan-semiconductor manufacturing industries. The company has developed ROPN industrial system modeling as the underlying technology, combined with artificial intelligence and big data, and developed more than 30 modular products for equipment maintenance, production scheduling and other links in the manufacturing process.

Network Intelligence

Series A in 2021
NETINT Technologies is a developer of intelligent silicon solutions for data-intensive applications. The Codensity portfolio enables enterprise, cloud data centers and content providers to deploy high performance applications that they can scale without limit, while minimizing their data storage and processing costs. Our core technology is the Codensity G4 SSD Controller System on Chip (SoC), which provides the intelligence inside our Codensity D400 PCIe NVMe SSDs, and Codensity T400 Video Transcoders. NETINT, founded by an experienced team of storage SoC veterans, is a Canadian venture-funded startup with R&D facilities in Vancouver and Toronto.

NeuronBasic

Series C in 2021
NeuronBasic focuses on the design and development of edge AI chips.

Nuolei Keji

Series C in 2021
Nuolei Keji is an edge artificial intelligence chip developer.

Hoverbird

Series A in 2021
Hoverbird is a high-tech enterprise that focuses on R&D, manufacturing, and sales of electric drive and electric safety core components.

SemiDrive

Series B in 2021
Semidrive is a car smart driving chip developer specializing in automotive applications, providing users with products such as ADAS and autonomous driving. It is dedicated to helping users solve the problem of smart driving chips. It also provides research and development services for intelligent core processors. The company's main research and development of car processor chip products, providing smart car core chips and high-performance industrial microprocessors and other semiconductor products and system-level turnkey solutions. Its chip's main application areas include: intelligent cabin and in-car entertainment systems, ADAS and L2.5 and below, and automatic controllers

Kolmostar

Series A in 2021
Kolmostar is a positioning technology company that revamps the industry's positioning approach to achieve ultra-low-power and high-precision positioning in metropolitan environments for Internet-of-Things devices and autonomous vehicles. Kolmostar’s solutions combine silicon technology, cutting-edge high-dimension statistical signal processing, as well as high-performance cloud computing to decrease GNSS sensors’ positioning mistakes and power depletion, allowing humans and intelligent machines access the centimeter-accurate position services. Kolmostar was founded on 2016 and is headquartered in Fremont, California.

MEMSDrive

Series A in 2021
MEMS Drive Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company that develops, manufactures and markets cutting-edge MEMS actuators. iIt's product targets hardware application in mobile imaging of portable electronics. Funded and supported by its customers in the cellphone camera market, MEMS Drive Inc. is at the forefront of this constantly evolving field.

Corigine

Seed Round in 2021
Corigine is a fabless semiconductor company that provides EDA and IP solutions and products. The intelligent chips developer primarily serves the telecom industry, having worked on 5G network data centers and high-end electronic design automation. The company also provides USB-IF certified USB 3.2 and USB 2.0 controllers, lowering the risk of IP errors due to specification interpretations. Corigine USB controllers are built on a new generation architecture that takes advantage of the most recent USB features while remaining small, low-power, and highly configurable.

MetaX

Seed Round in 2021
Muxi is dedicated to providing full-stack GPU chips and heterogeneous computing solutions that can be widely used in cutting-edge fields such as artificial intelligence, smart cities, data centers, cloud computing, autonomous driving, digital twins, metaverse, and so on. It builds full-stack GPU chip products, launching MXN series GPUs (Xi Si) for AI reasoning, MXC series GPUs (Xi Yun) for AI training and general computing, and MXG series GPUs (Xi Cai) for graphics rendering, Meet the computing power requirements of data centers for "high energy efficiency" and "high versatility". Mu Xi's products all use independently developed GPU IP, have instruction sets and architectures with completely independent intellectual property rights, and are outfitted with a complete software stack (MACAMACA) compatible with mainstream GPU ecosystems. In September 2020, the company was founded in Shanghai, and it has wholly-owned subsidiaries and R&D centers in Beijing, Nanjing, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, and Wuhan.

Best Compound Semiconductor

Angel Round in 2020
Best Compound Semiconductor is a provider of professional epitaxial foundry services for the high-voltage and high-power application market. The company also provides SiC/SiC, GaN/Si Epitaxy Wafer Service for 4-inch and 6-inch silicon carbide, and 6-inch and 8-inch silicon-based GaN with high-quality manufacturing capabilities to meet new needs. Best Compound Semiconductor was established in 2019 and is based in Nanjing, China.

Picocom

Series A in 2020
Picocom is a 5G open RAN baseband semiconductor and software specialist. The company designs and markets Open RAN standard-compliant baseband SoCs and carrier-grade software products for 5G small cell infrastructure.

SemiDrive

Series A in 2020
Semidrive is a car smart driving chip developer specializing in automotive applications, providing users with products such as ADAS and autonomous driving. It is dedicated to helping users solve the problem of smart driving chips. It also provides research and development services for intelligent core processors. The company's main research and development of car processor chip products, providing smart car core chips and high-performance industrial microprocessors and other semiconductor products and system-level turnkey solutions. Its chip's main application areas include: intelligent cabin and in-car entertainment systems, ADAS and L2.5 and below, and automatic controllers

Zealync

Series A in 2020
Zealync consists of RF chip design experts and senior talents.

PetaIO

Series C in 2020
PetaIO is a provider of low-power enterprise-level SSD main control chip, firmware, and software services. The company's mission is to cutting-edge storage technologies and meeting the ever-increasing data storing and processing demands targeting Data Center applications. PetaIO was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
With R&D centers in Shanghai, Nanjing, Chengdu, and Singapore, as well as sales offices in Xi'an, Chongqing, and Shenzhen, and a supply chain center in Hong Kong, Xinyi is a prominent 5G IoT SoC vendor. Xinyi has a comprehensive and international top-tier chip R&D capabilities. The founders and core team are alumni of the world's leading communication chip companies, including Broadcom, Qualcomm, Intel, and Maxlinear, as well as UCLA, TAMU, UT Dallas, UMN, Peking University, Tsinghua, Zhejiang University, Southeast, and other well-known domestic and international universities.

Silicon Integrated

Series B in 2020
Wuhan Juxin Microelectronics is a cutting-edge high-tech firm that specializes in the design of high-performance analog and mixed-signal chips. The company has two major product lines: 3D optics and intelligent audio, of which the intelligent audio power amplifier has been recognized by mainstream mobile phone manufacturers for its differentiated products and excellent cost performance, and the Time-of-Flight sensor used for 3D imaging adopts The advanced back-illuminated (BSI) technology, which has the characteristics of high precision, small pixel size, high resolution, low power consumption, and full integration.

SynSense

Series A in 2020
SynSense is a leading-edge neuromorphic computing company. It provides dedicated mixed-signal/fully digital neuromorphic processors which overcome the limitations of legacy von Neumann computers to provide an unprecedented combination of ultra-low power consumption and low-latency performance. SynSense is founded in March 2017 based on advances in neuromorphic computing hardware developed at the Institute of Neuroinformatics of the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich. aiCTX is developing “full-stack” custom neuromorphic processors for a variety of artificial-intelligence (AI) edge-computing applications that require ultra-low-power and ultra-low-latency features, including autonomous robots, always-on co-processors for mobile and embedded devices, wearable health-care systems, security, IoT applications, and computing at the network edge.

AISpeech

Series E in 2020
AISpeech is a high-tech start up specialized in computer speech recognition, analysis, tone analysis and dialog management techniques.

FineMEMS

Series C in 2019
FineMEMS is a high-tech enterprise company that offers OEM sensors, pressure transducers, initia measurement unit, and currents sensors. It also provides consumers with first-class technologies, products, and services including OEM and ODM. FineMEMS focuses on automotive electronics, industrial electronics, medical electronics, and consumer electronics, providing chips, MEMS sensor modules/systems, testing instruments, and ODM/OEM services. MEMS pressure sensors and TPMS (Tire Pressure Monitoring System) have been successfully adopted by several famous automotive manufacturers in China. At the same time, FineMEMS is entering into medical electronics and consumer electronics industries due to its unique low-cost ASIC and plastic packaging technology. FineMEMS was founded in 2008 by a group of technical experts who came back from overseas in the fields of integrated circuits, MEMS (Micro-electro-mechanical-systems), packaging, automotive electronics, etc.

Cambricon Technologies

Series B in 2018
Cambrian Technology is a pioneer in the field of smart chips in the world. It aims to build the core processor chips of various intelligent cloud servers, smart terminals and intelligent robots. Professor Chen Tianshi, founder and CEO of the company, is a distinguished young scientist renowned both at home and abroad in the field of processor architecture and artificial intelligence. He was awarded the honorary title of "Excellent Youth" by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, CCF-Intel Young Scholar Award, China Computer Society outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award and other honors. The Cambrian is the world's first smart chip company with successful outflow and mature products, and has two product lines, terminal and server. The Cambrian-1A processor (Cambricon-1A), introduced in 2016, is the world's first commercial deep learning processor for smart phones, wearable devices, unmanned aerial vehicles, smart driving and other types of terminal equipment.
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