Intel

Intel Corporation is a leading global designer and manufacturer of semiconductor technologies, focused on powering the cloud, smart devices, and connected technologies. Founded in 1968 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Intel operates through various segments including Data Center Group, Internet of Things Group, Mobileye, and Client Computing Group, among others. The company offers a range of products such as central processing units, chipsets, accelerators, and memory solutions, catering to original equipment manufacturers, original design manufacturers, and cloud service providers. Intel has been transitioning from a PC-centric to a data-centric business model, emphasizing advancements in performance, power, and connectivity across various workloads. With a strong commitment to innovation, Intel also invests through Intel Capital in startups that drive technologies in cloud infrastructure, artificial intelligence, and 5G, among others. The company’s collaborations with prominent organizations aim to develop privacy-preserving analytics and enhance computing capabilities. As one of the largest semiconductor manufacturers by revenue, Intel continues to shape the future of computing and communications.

Indeshaw Adenaw

Investor

Ranjeet Alexis

Investor

Ricardo A. Arantes

Investment Director

Uri Arazy

Director

Jen Ard

Managing Director

Amit Behl

Director

Ameet Bhansali

vice_president

John Bonini

Vice President

Wendell M. Brooks

Head of Intel Capital

Michael A. Buckley

Director

Arun Chetty

Managing Director

Helen Chiu

Director

Mark D. Crawford

Investment Manager

Mauro D'Amato

Investment Director

Akimichi Degawa

Strategic Investment Manager

Sean Doyle

Managing Director

Stephen (Steve) Eichenlaub

Managing Director

Kareem S. Fahmy

Director of Portfolio Business Development

Don Faria

Investor

David Flanagan

Managing Director

Dave Flanagan

Vice President, Senior Managing Director

Andrew (Andy) Fligel

Managing Director

Abdul Guefor

Managing Director

Peter Gullander

Senior Strategic Investment Manager

James Horn

Senior Investment Manager

John Hsin

Director

Richard Hsu

Managing Director

Charlene Hu

Director

Tamiko Hutchinson

Vice President

Josiane Ishimwe

Investor

David Johnson

Managing Director

Erik Jorgensen

Director

Eric King

Investor

Klaus Konrad

Investment Director

Jon Kruse

Investment Director

Sunil Kurkure

Managing Director

Tony Kwan

Director

Tom Lathrop

Director

Tim Lauer

Director, Global Business Development

Claude Leglise

VP of Intel Capital

Elana Lian

Investor

Anthony Lin

Head of Intel Capital, Managing Partner

Mark Lydon

Managing Director

Thomas (Tom) Marchok

Director

Alexander Marquez

Director

John Mascarenas

Investment Director

Lucy McQuilken

Investment Director

Nebiu Mela

Investor

Dave Mueller

Investor

Deepak Natarajan

Director

Bob Nunn

Managing Director

Laura Oliphant

Director

Fabio Iunis de Paula

Director

Trina Van Pelt

Vice President, Senior Managing Director

Chris Pu

Director of Investment

Bhavanipratapsinh Rana

Director

Hong Rao

Director

Ronald Rawson

Director

Ronnie Reich

Director

Mark Rostick

Managing Director

Stephen Saltzman

Director

Feroz Sanaulla

Investment Director

Vivek Saraswat

Process Integration Engineer

Takayuki Sasaki

Director

Lee Sessions

Managing Director, Global Corporate Venture Ecosystem

Tammi Smorynski

Managing Director

Chiara Sommer

Investment Director

Dylan Steeg

Director

Jackie A. Sturm

VP, Technology & Manufacturing Group GM, Global Sourcing & Procurement

Eric Sun

Senior Director

David Earl Thomas

Managing Director

Thomas Urban

Investor

Erica Van

Partner

Nick Washburn

Managing Director

Tyler A Welt

Investor

Victor Westerlind

Director

Bryan E. Wolf

Managing Director

Christine Wu

Director

Past deals in ASIC

IC Bench

Seed Round in 2022
IC Bench is a semiconductor technology company on a mission to advance the chip industry. IC Bench enables customers to progress from new product ideas to working products faster than currently possible. IC Bench's expertise is in transforming chip ideas into working chips at a pace unmatched in the industry.

Qixin Micro Semiconductor

Series B in 2022
Suzhou Qixin Micro Semiconductor Co., Ltd. was established in October 2020. Based on the ARM Cortex M4, M7 and other series of architectures, it will build high-performance and high-reliability system-on-chips for different automotive application scenarios, and develop high-end smart car controller chips. Through the use of self-developed IP, unique multi-core lock-step technologies, and the unique Six Sigma analog circuit design process for automotive-standard chips, a full series of product families covering safety standards ISO26262 ASIL-B to ASIL-D have been designed. The company's products all meet the automotive regulations AEC-Q100, functional safety standard ISO26262 and various automotive regulations reliability tests, and can be widely used in the fields of body, automotive instrumentation, safety, power, battery management and other fields. The company is mainly engaged in the research and development and sales of high-end automotive controller chips. The goal is to fill the gap in the domestic new generation of intelligent networked automotive controller chips, and is committed to becoming a leading manufacturer in the field of automotive and industrial controllers in China.

Vanguard Semiconductor

Series B in 2022
Vanguard Semiconductor is a Developer of semiconductors designed to be used in electrical power devices.

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.

SiFive

Series F in 2022
SiFive, Inc. is a semiconductor company that specializes in designing and manufacturing chips, particularly focused on RISC-V architecture. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, with additional offices worldwide, SiFive develops multi-core application processors, embedded microcontrollers, and system-on-chip (SoC) products tailored for various applications, including IoT and wearables. The company provides software development kits, toolchains, and utilities to facilitate the development of RISC-V devices, enhancing the efficiency and affordability of hardware design. By leveraging open-source principles and software automation, SiFive aims to accelerate innovation in the semiconductor industry, enabling both large and small businesses to bring new hardware solutions to market more rapidly.

NeuroBlade

Series B in 2021
NeuroBlade develops an Artificial Intelligence (AI) inference chip for data centers and end-devices. The company's chip solution paired with a complete end-to-end SW stack enables businesses to take the next leap forward by increasing the efficiency and affordability of their devices from edge to datacenters. Its approach overcomes fundamental AI challenges, eliminating memory bottlenecks while maintaining access to high-density memories without diminishing the accuracy of the trained model. Founded in 2017, NeuroBlade is headquartered in Hod-Hasharon, Israel.

Astera Labs

Series C in 2021
Astera Labs, a fabless semiconductor company founded in 2017 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, specializes in purpose-built connectivity solutions for data-centric systems. The company designs and supplies a range of products, including system-aware semiconductor integrated circuits, boards, and high-speed connectivity solutions. Its portfolio features Aries PCIe smart retimers and various systems such as riser cards and PCIe-over-cable extender cards. These products cater to applications in server connectivity, distributed machine learning, and high-end gaming graphics. Astera Labs collaborates with leading processor vendors and cloud service providers to enhance performance and eliminate bottlenecks in compute-intensive workloads. Additionally, the company offers design and testing services, along with its COSMOS software suite, which supports observability and predictive analytics to meet the demands of hyperscalers and original equipment manufacturers.

Motivo

Series A in 2021
Motivo has developed proprietary computational technology to use graph analytics, AI and machine learning for the semiconductor IC segment. In the IC space, we dramatically accelerate yield improvement with tera scale data analytics and machine learning.

Untether AI

Venture Round in 2021
Untether AI Corporation specializes in manufacturing neural network-based inference processors and chips, aimed at enhancing the capabilities of devices such as augmented reality headsets and wearables. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, the company focuses on creating a new class of specialized processors that prioritize efficiency by minimizing complexity while maintaining essential operations for neural net inference. This approach allows devices to perform critical functions like machine vision and speech recognition within strict energy constraints, addressing challenges that current inference technologies face. Untether AI's innovative architecture is designed to maximize inference output while minimizing power consumption, making it well-suited to meet the evolving demands of various applications.

Xsight Labs

Series D in 2021
Xsight Labs Ltd manufactures chip-set semiconductors for data center and automotive sector. It develops technology for accelerating next generation, cloud-based, data-intensive workloads such as machine learning, data analytics and disaggregated storage. Xsight Labs Ltd was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Kiryat Gat, Israel.

Axoni

Series B in 2021
Axoni is a New York-based technology firm focused on capital markets, specializing in distributed ledger solutions. Founded in 2013 by experts in distributed ledger technology and cryptography, Axoni serves major financial institutions and capital markets service providers. The company's offerings include the deployment of distributed ledger technology, custom smart contract development, and advanced analytics tools. Their software integrates traditional financial technologies with blockchain capabilities, providing market information and in-depth trend analysis. This comprehensive approach enables investment funders, exchange operators, and professional traders to enhance their systems for managing legal records, lifecycle events, and cash flow calculations.

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.

Accurics

Series A in 2020
Accurics, Inc. is a cybersecurity company that provides a platform designed to secure cloud-native infrastructure in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Pleasanton, California, Accurics focuses on protecting organizations from potential security risks by scanning Infrastructure as Code for misconfigurations and policy violations prior to deployment. The platform not only identifies risks before provisioning but also monitors production environments for changes that could introduce vulnerabilities. This allows organizations to maintain compliance, governance, and security across their cloud infrastructure. Additionally, Accurics offers tools such as Terrascan, which are available for free and support the company's mission of enabling cyber resilience and self-healing capabilities in cloud-native environments.

SiFive

Series E in 2020
SiFive, Inc. is a semiconductor company that specializes in designing and manufacturing chips, particularly focused on RISC-V architecture. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, with additional offices worldwide, SiFive develops multi-core application processors, embedded microcontrollers, and system-on-chip (SoC) products tailored for various applications, including IoT and wearables. The company provides software development kits, toolchains, and utilities to facilitate the development of RISC-V devices, enhancing the efficiency and affordability of hardware design. By leveraging open-source principles and software automation, SiFive aims to accelerate innovation in the semiconductor industry, enabling both large and small businesses to bring new hardware solutions to market more rapidly.

Untether AI

Series A in 2020
Untether AI Corporation specializes in manufacturing neural network-based inference processors and chips, aimed at enhancing the capabilities of devices such as augmented reality headsets and wearables. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, the company focuses on creating a new class of specialized processors that prioritize efficiency by minimizing complexity while maintaining essential operations for neural net inference. This approach allows devices to perform critical functions like machine vision and speech recognition within strict energy constraints, addressing challenges that current inference technologies face. Untether AI's innovative architecture is designed to maximize inference output while minimizing power consumption, making it well-suited to meet the evolving demands of various applications.

Xsight Labs

Series A in 2020
Xsight Labs Ltd manufactures chip-set semiconductors for data center and automotive sector. It develops technology for accelerating next generation, cloud-based, data-intensive workloads such as machine learning, data analytics and disaggregated storage. Xsight Labs Ltd was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Kiryat Gat, Israel.

Xsight Labs

Series A in 2020
Xsight Labs Ltd manufactures chip-set semiconductors for data center and automotive sector. It develops technology for accelerating next generation, cloud-based, data-intensive workloads such as machine learning, data analytics and disaggregated storage. Xsight Labs Ltd was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Kiryat Gat, Israel.

Astera Labs

Series B in 2020
Astera Labs, a fabless semiconductor company founded in 2017 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, specializes in purpose-built connectivity solutions for data-centric systems. The company designs and supplies a range of products, including system-aware semiconductor integrated circuits, boards, and high-speed connectivity solutions. Its portfolio features Aries PCIe smart retimers and various systems such as riser cards and PCIe-over-cable extender cards. These products cater to applications in server connectivity, distributed machine learning, and high-end gaming graphics. Astera Labs collaborates with leading processor vendors and cloud service providers to enhance performance and eliminate bottlenecks in compute-intensive workloads. Additionally, the company offers design and testing services, along with its COSMOS software suite, which supports observability and predictive analytics to meet the demands of hyperscalers and original equipment manufacturers.

Primarius

Series A in 2020
Primarius Technologies Co Ltd, established in 2010, specializes in delivering innovative electronic design automation (EDA) solutions that enhance the connection between advanced process development and high-end chip designs. The company is recognized for its expertise in advanced device modeling and rapid circuit simulation, which are crucial for efficient chip design. Primarius has successfully secured significant funding, including a substantial Series A round from notable investors such as Intel Capital and Xingcheng Capital.

Reniac

Series A in 2020
rENIAC, Inc. designs and develops an intelligent data-aware architecture for applications, servers, and data stores. It develops a data engine platform that accelerates and optimizes open source database implementations for data-centric application. The company also provides Cassandra I/O accelerator; distributed and persistent cache; and storage engine for graphs and SQL databases. rENIAC, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Santa Clara, California with additional locations in Hyderabad, India; and Richmond, Canada.

Habana

Acquisition in 2019
Habana Labs Ltd. is a fabless semiconductor company that specializes in developing AI processors tailored for training deep neural networks and inference deployment in production environments. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Jose, California, the company aims to enhance data center and cloud efficiency by delivering significant improvements in processing performance, cost, and power consumption. With additional offices in Tel-Aviv, Israel, Gdansk, Poland, and Beijing, China, Habana Labs focuses on creating innovative solutions that unlock the full potential of artificial intelligence. As a subsidiary of Intel Corporation since 2019, Habana Labs continues to contribute to the advancement of AI technology in various sectors.

Untether AI

Series A in 2019
Untether AI Corporation specializes in manufacturing neural network-based inference processors and chips, aimed at enhancing the capabilities of devices such as augmented reality headsets and wearables. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, the company focuses on creating a new class of specialized processors that prioritize efficiency by minimizing complexity while maintaining essential operations for neural net inference. This approach allows devices to perform critical functions like machine vision and speech recognition within strict energy constraints, addressing challenges that current inference technologies face. Untether AI's innovative architecture is designed to maximize inference output while minimizing power consumption, making it well-suited to meet the evolving demands of various applications.

IOTAS

Series A in 2019
IOTAS, INC. provides home automation services for apartment residents in Portland, Oregon. It installs and sets up smart outlets, hubs, smart switches, smart plugs, open/close sensors, and motion sensors in apartments. The company also provides home automation platform that integrates pre-installed hardware with software to interact with homes; and enables residents to manually control and automate lights and devices based on a schedule or various triggers. IOTAS, INC. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Portland, Oregon.

NeuroBlade

Series A in 2019
NeuroBlade develops an Artificial Intelligence (AI) inference chip for data centers and end-devices. The company's chip solution paired with a complete end-to-end SW stack enables businesses to take the next leap forward by increasing the efficiency and affordability of their devices from edge to datacenters. Its approach overcomes fundamental AI challenges, eliminating memory bottlenecks while maintaining access to high-density memories without diminishing the accuracy of the trained model. Founded in 2017, NeuroBlade is headquartered in Hod-Hasharon, Israel.

Untether AI

Series A in 2019
Untether AI Corporation specializes in manufacturing neural network-based inference processors and chips, aimed at enhancing the capabilities of devices such as augmented reality headsets and wearables. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, the company focuses on creating a new class of specialized processors that prioritize efficiency by minimizing complexity while maintaining essential operations for neural net inference. This approach allows devices to perform critical functions like machine vision and speech recognition within strict energy constraints, addressing challenges that current inference technologies face. Untether AI's innovative architecture is designed to maximize inference output while minimizing power consumption, making it well-suited to meet the evolving demands of various applications.

Movellus

Series A in 2019
Movellus, Inc. designs, develops, fabricates, tests, and manufactures mixed-signal semiconductors for the semiconductor market. It offers clock generators/PLLs, locked loops, programmable oscillators, pulse width modulators, and near threshold analogs. The company's products include Movellus PLL, DLL, and LDO generators. It serves semiconductor and systems companies in the artificial intelligence, networking, and FPGA segments. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in San Jose, California with additional offices in Silicon Valley, California; Ann Arbor, Michigan; and Toronto, Canada.

Eeasy Tech

Series A in 2019
Yizhi Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. is a system solution provider with AI machine vision algorithm and SOC chip design as its core, aiming to become the global leader in intelligent security (AI) enabling in video security, automotive electronics and intelligent hardware. The company was registered in Zhuhai in early 2016 and currently has offices in Zhuhai, Beijing and Shenzhen. Yizhi has more than 100 employees, mainly graduated from domestic first-class colleges. The core team has experienced many successful SOC chip mass production experience, and the chip and algorithm R&D team has an average annual salary of more than 10 years. Yizhi has always insisted on independent research and development of IP such as AI acceleration, high-definition display, audio and video codec, high-speed digital-analog mixing, especially the AI ​​IP PPA index is better than the industry rivals.

ICHEC

Venture Round in 2019
The Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC), established in 2005, serves as Ireland's national high-performance computing center. Its primary mission is to offer high-performance computing resources, along with support, education, and training for researchers affiliated with third-level institutions. Additionally, ICHEC plays a vital role in facilitating technology transfer and enablement, thereby assisting Irish industries, both large and small, in enhancing their contributions to the economy. Through its comprehensive services, ICHEC aims to advance research capabilities and foster innovation across various sectors in Ireland.

Movellus

Venture Round in 2018
Movellus, Inc. designs, develops, fabricates, tests, and manufactures mixed-signal semiconductors for the semiconductor market. It offers clock generators/PLLs, locked loops, programmable oscillators, pulse width modulators, and near threshold analogs. The company's products include Movellus PLL, DLL, and LDO generators. It serves semiconductor and systems companies in the artificial intelligence, networking, and FPGA segments. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in San Jose, California with additional offices in Silicon Valley, California; Ann Arbor, Michigan; and Toronto, Canada.

CT Accel

Series A in 2018
CTAccel Ltd. is founded in March 2016. The core team of CTAccel comes from the FPGA team of Clustertech Ltd. The team has been involved in the development of FPGA based heterogeneous computing solution for Datacenter since 2013. They have a 20-strong R&D team, with most its members holding an advance degree in science and engineering from top universities in the world and have extensive experience in algorithm design, FPGA design, hardware/ software codesign, system optimization and software engineering. Their team focus on accelerating image processing in Internet Data Center. Their patented CTAccel Image Processor (CIP) improves the performance and efficiency of image processing in datacenters.

Alcide

Series A in 2018
Alcide.IO Ltd. designs and develops security and management tools for hybrid, multi-cloud, and multi-compute data centers. The company offers End-to-end K8s security platform, Alcide Kuberneter Advisor, Alcide kAudit, and ART: Alcide runtime. The company offers security for Kubernetes, istio service-mesh, AWS, Azure, and google cloud platform. The company's solutions secures the data center against cyber-attacks, including malicious internal activity and data exfiltration. Alcide.IO Ltd. was founded in 2016 and is based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.

Habana

Series B in 2018
Habana Labs Ltd. is a fabless semiconductor company that specializes in developing AI processors tailored for training deep neural networks and inference deployment in production environments. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Jose, California, the company aims to enhance data center and cloud efficiency by delivering significant improvements in processing performance, cost, and power consumption. With additional offices in Tel-Aviv, Israel, Gdansk, Poland, and Beijing, China, Habana Labs focuses on creating innovative solutions that unlock the full potential of artificial intelligence. As a subsidiary of Intel Corporation since 2019, Habana Labs continues to contribute to the advancement of AI technology in various sectors.

Ayar Labs

Series A in 2018
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.

StarkWare

Series A in 2018
StarkWare Industries Ltd, founded in 2017 and based in Netanya, Israel, specializes in developing software and hardware for generating and verifying computational integrity proofs. The company has created STARK, a zero-knowledge proof protocol that enhances scalability and privacy in blockchain applications. This technology allows for increased transaction throughput and enables off-chain computation while ensuring that sensitive underlying data remains confidential. StarkWare's solutions are designed to improve the efficiency, security, and overall user experience of blockchain systems, making them a key player in the field of cryptographic proof platforms.

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.

VeriSilicon

Series A in 2018
VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd. is an integrated circuit (IC) design foundry that provides custom silicon solutions and system-on-chip (SoC) turnkey services for a wide range of electronic devices and systems, including smart phones, media tablets, HDTVs, set-top boxes, blu-ray DVD players, home gateways, networking, and data centers. VeriSilicon's technology solutions leverage licensable digital signal processing cores, Hantro Video IPs, eDRAM, and others that can be targeted for a wide range of process technology, including advanced nodes like 28nm and FD-SOI.
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Vertex.AI

Acquisition in 2018
Vertex.AI owns and operates a platform which provides visual intelligence capabilities to edge devices. The company provides vertex vision which allows detecting, classifying, tracking, and identifying objects and other visual elements in real time and vertex vantage which provides software platform that unlocks the deep learning capability of chips from low-power mobile processors to full-size GPUs. Vertex.AI was formerly known as 1026 Labs, Inc. Vertex.AI is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. As of August 16, 2018, operates as a subsidiary of Movidius, Inc..

eASIC

Acquisition in 2018
eASIC Corporation is a fabless semiconductor company that specializes in manufacturing platforms designed to lower the cost of ownership and accelerate the production of customized silicon devices. The company develops the Nextreme family of devices, including the fourth-generation Nextreme-3 and third-generation Nextreme-2, which significantly reduce development costs and turnaround times compared to standard cell ASICs while also decreasing power consumption and unit costs. Additionally, eASIC offers the easicopy ASIC, providing original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) a pathway to transition from Nextreme devices to a cell-based ASIC, further optimizing device cost, power consumption, or performance. The eZ-IP alliance program complements these offerings by providing access to a variety of verified eASIC-ready intellectual property cores, facilitating faster market entry for clients. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, eASIC serves a global customer base across diverse applications, including wireless infrastructure and consumer handheld devices. The company operates as a subsidiary of Intel Corporation.

Syntiant

Series A 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.

Espressif

Series C in 2018
Espressif Systems (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., a fabless semiconductor company, designs and sells Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, low-power IoT solutions in China. The company offers wireless SoCs; modules combining Wi-Fi and BT/BLE; and development boards, as well as software products. It also provides hardware services. The company serves customers in industrial automation, wearable electronic, healthcare, consumer electronic, and smart home sectors. Espressif Systems (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Shanghai, China.

Movellus

Venture Round in 2018
Movellus, Inc. designs, develops, fabricates, tests, and manufactures mixed-signal semiconductors for the semiconductor market. It offers clock generators/PLLs, locked loops, programmable oscillators, pulse width modulators, and near threshold analogs. The company's products include Movellus PLL, DLL, and LDO generators. It serves semiconductor and systems companies in the artificial intelligence, networking, and FPGA segments. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in San Jose, California with additional offices in Silicon Valley, California; Ann Arbor, Michigan; and Toronto, Canada.

Trigence

Series C in 2018
Trigence Semiconductor, Inc. operates as an audio IC design and solution provider. The company offers digital audio products, such as Digital Speaker Module that include speakers, enclosures, connectors, FPCs, audio DSPs, and interfaces to simplify development for PC, tablet, and smartphone required audio functionality; and digital speaker drivers, USBs, and evaluation boards for the consumer and IT markets. It provides products for applications in computer and laptop, headsets, sound-bar, and Bluetooth speaker. The company offers its products through distributors. Trigence Semiconductor, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is based in Tokyo, Japan with offices in Japan, the United States, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

SiFive

Series C in 2018
SiFive, Inc. is a semiconductor company that specializes in designing and manufacturing chips, particularly focused on RISC-V architecture. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, with additional offices worldwide, SiFive develops multi-core application processors, embedded microcontrollers, and system-on-chip (SoC) products tailored for various applications, including IoT and wearables. The company provides software development kits, toolchains, and utilities to facilitate the development of RISC-V devices, enhancing the efficiency and affordability of hardware design. By leveraging open-source principles and software automation, SiFive aims to accelerate innovation in the semiconductor industry, enabling both large and small businesses to bring new hardware solutions to market more rapidly.

LegUp Computing

Seed Round in 2018
LegUp Computing Inc. develops and offers a cloud platform, which enables software developers to program, deploy, scale, and manage field-programmable gate array (FPGA) devices for applications. Its products target FPGA devices, which are connected to high-bandwidth networks for processing of database, analytics, and machine learning workloads. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Toronto, Canada. As of October 9, 2020, LegUp Computing Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Microchip Technology Incorporated.

Swarm64

Series B in 2018
Swarm64 (swarm64.com) provides accelerators for relational databases that enable real-time analytics of high velocity data. Swarm64’s team is world-class in delivering FPGA acceleration and real-time database design. Founded in 2013, Swarm64 is backed by leading Norwegian and German venture investors. Swarm64 is a Norwegian company with operations in Berlin, Germany.

Reniac

Venture Round in 2017
rENIAC, Inc. designs and develops an intelligent data-aware architecture for applications, servers, and data stores. It develops a data engine platform that accelerates and optimizes open source database implementations for data-centric application. The company also provides Cassandra I/O accelerator; distributed and persistent cache; and storage engine for graphs and SQL databases. rENIAC, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Santa Clara, California with additional locations in Hyderabad, India; and Richmond, Canada.

Alcide

Seed Round in 2017
Alcide.IO Ltd. designs and develops security and management tools for hybrid, multi-cloud, and multi-compute data centers. The company offers End-to-end K8s security platform, Alcide Kuberneter Advisor, Alcide kAudit, and ART: Alcide runtime. The company offers security for Kubernetes, istio service-mesh, AWS, Azure, and google cloud platform. The company's solutions secures the data center against cyber-attacks, including malicious internal activity and data exfiltration. Alcide.IO Ltd. was founded in 2016 and is based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.

IOTAS

Corporate Round in 2017
IOTAS, INC. provides home automation services for apartment residents in Portland, Oregon. It installs and sets up smart outlets, hubs, smart switches, smart plugs, open/close sensors, and motion sensors in apartments. The company also provides home automation platform that integrates pre-installed hardware with software to interact with homes; and enables residents to manually control and automate lights and devices based on a schedule or various triggers. IOTAS, INC. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Portland, Oregon.

Falcon Computing

Series B in 2017
Falcon Computing enables data scientists and software developers working in Genomics, Machine Learning, Finance, and Computer Vision to simplify their path to heterogeneous accelerated computing. With a simple push-button C/C++ to a highly-optimized FPGA implementation for both public and private clouds, users can achieve performance, energy-efficiency, and productivity gains. Falcon Computing was founded in 2014 by Dr. Jason Cong, serial entrepreneur and Director of the Center for Domain-Specific Computing (CDSC) at UCLA. It is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA with offices in Los Angeles and Beijing.

Filament

Series A in 2017
Filament builds blockchain hardware and& software solutions for enterprise and IoT. Filament’s distributed blockchain capabilities leverage open protocols so that devices are able to independently process and record transactions, ensuring digital trust. Its new trusted application software and Blocklet Chip, currently in beta, are designed to communicate and interact with multiple blockchain technologies natively. The software, implemented on existing hardware, will deliver a secure distributed ledger technology solution. The Blocklet Chip will allow industrial corporations and enterprises to seamlessly extract the value of recording and monetizing data assets, at the edge of the network, on the sensors themselves.

Grand Chip Microelectronics

Venture Round in 2016
Grand Chip Microelectronics Co., Ltd is a company based in Zhuzhou City, China, specializing in the development of radio frequency (RF) front-end integrated circuits (ICs) and RF Place & Play solutions tailored for wireless local area network (WLAN) infrastructure applications. The company focuses on creating high-performance, high-linearity, and highly integrated Wi-Fi front-end devices that enhance wireless connectivity across various platforms, including cellular networks and the Internet of Things.

Soft Machines

Acquisition in 2016
Soft Machines is a semiconductor company focusing on co-developing VISC architecture-based processor and SoC products for all major performance computing platforms. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

Movidius

Acquisition in 2016
Movidius is a vision processor company that designs compact, high-performance, ultralow power, computational imaging and vision processing chips, software, development tools and reference designs. Movidius’ architecture delivers a new wave of intelligent and contextually aware experiences for consumers in mobile and wearable devices, and other consumer and industrial camera applications. Movidius is headquartered in San Mateo, California. Movidius is a venture-backed start-up with investors including: AIB Seed Capital Fund, Atlantic Bridge, Capital-E, DFJ Esprit and Robert Bosch Venture Capital.

Kazan Networks

Series A in 2016
Kazan Networks Corporation specializes in developing high-performance networking and enterprise storage solutions. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Auburn, California, the company focuses on products such as iSCSI controllers, FC-to-SATA bridges, and SAS controllers. A key offering is the KN-EVAL_1.0 customer evaluation kit, designed to allow customers and partners to test the emerging NVMe over Fabrics standard. This kit provides a fully-functioning implementation based on an FPGA, facilitating optimal performance and flexibility while enabling straightforward plug-and-play connectivity between hosts and SSDs over Ethernet links. Kazan Networks operates as a subsidiary of Western Digital Corporation.

YOGITECH

Acquisition in 2016
YOGITECH, founded in 2000, is a company with a solid and proven experience in the design and verification of digital and mixed-signal System-on-Chip and in fault-tolerant integrated circuits. Headquartered in Pisa with offices in Nice, YOGITECH is an independent company with a Share Capital of 450 thousands Euros, privately owned by its founders and by financial partners such as Sici Toscana Venture Fund and the Chamber of Commerce of Pisa.

Trigence

Corporate Round in 2015
Trigence Semiconductor, Inc. operates as an audio IC design and solution provider. The company offers digital audio products, such as Digital Speaker Module that include speakers, enclosures, connectors, FPCs, audio DSPs, and interfaces to simplify development for PC, tablet, and smartphone required audio functionality; and digital speaker drivers, USBs, and evaluation boards for the consumer and IT markets. It provides products for applications in computer and laptop, headsets, sound-bar, and Bluetooth speaker. The company offers its products through distributors. Trigence Semiconductor, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is based in Tokyo, Japan with offices in Japan, the United States, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

Vectra

Series C in 2015
Vectra AI, Inc. is a cybersecurity company based in San Jose, California, specializing in artificial intelligence-based solutions for detecting and responding to cyberattacks across cloud, data center, and enterprise infrastructures. Established in 2010, Vectra focuses on safeguarding cloud and data center workloads as well as user and IoT devices. Its flagship Cognito platform enhances threat detection and investigation by leveraging AI to collect, store, and enrich network metadata, enabling real-time detection and analysis of both known and unknown threats. The company offers three key applications within the Cognito platform: Cognito Stream, which transmits security-enriched metadata to data lakes and SIEMs; Cognito Recall, a cloud-based tool for storing and investigating threats; and Cognito Detect, designed to swiftly reveal and prioritize hidden attackers. Vectra AI also has research and development centers in Dublin, Ireland; Austin, Texas; and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Altera

Acquisition in 2015
Altera Corporation, founded in 1983 and headquartered in San Jose, California, is a prominent semiconductor company specializing in programmable logic devices (PLDs) and associated development tools. The company designs and sells a range of products, including field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), complex programmable logic devices (CPLDs), and HardCopy application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) devices. Altera's offerings also encompass power system-on-chip devices that facilitate the miniaturization of power circuitry, as well as configuration devices for storing programming code. Its advanced product lines include the Stratix, Arria, Cyclone, and MAX series of FPGAs. Additionally, Altera provides intellectual property cores for system-level functions and development tools, such as the Quartus II software for design processes. The company serves diverse markets, including telecommunications, industrial automation, military, and automotive sectors, and operates internationally through distributors and direct sales. As of December 2015, Altera operates as a subsidiary of Intel Corporation.

Powervation

Debt Financing in 2014
Powervation Ltd. is a semiconductor company that specializes in developing digital power integrated circuit solutions tailored for cloud computing, communication, and high-performance power system applications. Established in 2006 and headquartered in Cork, Ireland, the company offers a range of products, including single-phase and dual-phase controllers, along with a graphical user interface design tool. Powervation's innovative Auto-control digital power IC technology aims to optimize power supply performance and efficiency, simplifying design processes and reducing costs for manufacturers in various sectors, including computing and storage. The company operates globally, with facilities in the United States, Taiwan, and China, and serves its customer base through a network of sales representatives and distributors. Powervation Ltd. is a subsidiary of ROHM Co., Ltd.

AnDAPT

Venture Round in 2014
AnDAPT, Inc., an analog and digital adaptive platform technology company, provides analog and digital adaptive solutions for enterprise power electronics to build on-demand mixed signal analog application specific standard products and adaptive power management devices to lower system power consumption without needing ultra-high volumes. It offers analog adaptive products for multi-function sensor hub integration and integrated system power management. Its products are used for power, sensors, and the Internet of Things in markets that range across the enterprise, computation, consumer, gaming, industrial, medical, and automotive segments. The company is based in San Jose, California.

LSI - Axxia Networking Business

Acquisition in 2014
LSI - Axxia Networking Business is a processors destined for enterprise and wireless network hardware.

Vectra

Series B in 2014
Vectra AI, Inc. is a cybersecurity company based in San Jose, California, specializing in artificial intelligence-based solutions for detecting and responding to cyberattacks across cloud, data center, and enterprise infrastructures. Established in 2010, Vectra focuses on safeguarding cloud and data center workloads as well as user and IoT devices. Its flagship Cognito platform enhances threat detection and investigation by leveraging AI to collect, store, and enrich network metadata, enabling real-time detection and analysis of both known and unknown threats. The company offers three key applications within the Cognito platform: Cognito Stream, which transmits security-enriched metadata to data lakes and SIEMs; Cognito Recall, a cloud-based tool for storing and investigating threats; and Cognito Detect, designed to swiftly reveal and prioritize hidden attackers. Vectra AI also has research and development centers in Dublin, Ireland; Austin, Texas; and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

VeriSilicon

Venture Round in 2014
VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd. is an integrated circuit (IC) design foundry that provides custom silicon solutions and system-on-chip (SoC) turnkey services for a wide range of electronic devices and systems, including smart phones, media tablets, HDTVs, set-top boxes, blu-ray DVD players, home gateways, networking, and data centers. VeriSilicon's technology solutions leverage licensable digital signal processing cores, Hantro Video IPs, eDRAM, and others that can be targeted for a wide range of process technology, including advanced nodes like 28nm and FD-SOI.

Powervation

Series C in 2014
Powervation Ltd. is a semiconductor company that specializes in developing digital power integrated circuit solutions tailored for cloud computing, communication, and high-performance power system applications. Established in 2006 and headquartered in Cork, Ireland, the company offers a range of products, including single-phase and dual-phase controllers, along with a graphical user interface design tool. Powervation's innovative Auto-control digital power IC technology aims to optimize power supply performance and efficiency, simplifying design processes and reducing costs for manufacturers in various sectors, including computing and storage. The company operates globally, with facilities in the United States, Taiwan, and China, and serves its customer base through a network of sales representatives and distributors. Powervation Ltd. is a subsidiary of ROHM Co., Ltd.

Rocketick

Series C in 2013
Rocketick Technologies Ltd., founded in 2008 and based in Ramat Gan, Israel, specializes in GPU-based simulation acceleration solutions aimed at enhancing chip verification processes. The company's flagship product, RocketSim, is a software-based simulation engine that integrates within existing simulator environments. It effectively addresses functional verification bottlenecks by providing GPU acceleration, resulting in simulations that are up to ten times faster for complex designs. RocketSim has gained traction among various semiconductor clients, establishing Rocketick as a pioneer in the field of hardware-assisted acceleration. Since April 2016, Rocketick has operated as a subsidiary of Cadence Design Systems Inc.

AT&S

Post in 2013
AT&S is a Europe-based printed circuit board manufacturer focused on high-end printed circuit board technology. Depending on technological and economic requirements, the company offers the widest possible range of printed circuit boards specially tailored to customers’ needs such as double-sided plated-through, multi-layer, high density interconnection and laser-drilled, insulated metallic substrate, flexible, rigid-flex, and semi-flexible. The core businesses of AT&S are mobile devices and substrates, automotive, industrial, medical, aviation, and advanced packaging. It has approximately 7,300 employees, of which around 1,200 are in Austria. In the 2013 and 2014 financial year AT&S’s sales revenues totaled 590 million euros, and earnings before interest and tax were 53.9 million euros. AT&S is headquartered in Leoben, Austria.

Netronome

Series E in 2013
Netronome offers server networking and coprocessor platforms, including silicon accelerators, SmartNICs, and software. It enables customers to increase the efficiency and security of their modern data center infrastructure. Netronome's solutions enable innovation at lower cost and power through domain-specific, open and efficient programming models and the ability to offload network and security processing. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

Avnera

Series E in 2013
Avnera Corporation specializes in designing and developing analog system-on-chip (ASoC) technology products for the consumer audio industry. The company focuses on creating highly-integrated application-specific integrated circuits (ICs) that cater to various audio and voice applications. Its product offerings include wireless audio ASoC solutions for gaming headsets, home theater systems, and wireless microphones, as well as sound processor ASoC products for soundbars and Bluetooth speakers. Avnera's expertise lies in integrating diverse circuit types, including RF, power management, audio data converters, and programmable digital signal processors, onto single pieces of silicon, achieving high performance at a low system cost. The company serves a wide range of customers in the audio market, including well-known brands such as Logitech, Panasonic, and Polycom. Incorporated in 2003 and based in Beaverton, Oregon, Avnera operates as a subsidiary of Skyworks Solutions, Inc.

Powervation

Series C in 2012
Powervation Ltd. is a semiconductor company that specializes in developing digital power integrated circuit solutions tailored for cloud computing, communication, and high-performance power system applications. Established in 2006 and headquartered in Cork, Ireland, the company offers a range of products, including single-phase and dual-phase controllers, along with a graphical user interface design tool. Powervation's innovative Auto-control digital power IC technology aims to optimize power supply performance and efficiency, simplifying design processes and reducing costs for manufacturers in various sectors, including computing and storage. The company operates globally, with facilities in the United States, Taiwan, and China, and serves its customer base through a network of sales representatives and distributors. Powervation Ltd. is a subsidiary of ROHM Co., Ltd.

ZiiLabs

Acquisition in 2012
ZiiLABS Ltd designs and develops silicon solutions which include ZMS chips. The company was founded in 1994 and is based in Egham, United Kingdom.

Trigence

Venture Round in 2012
Trigence Semiconductor, Inc. operates as an audio IC design and solution provider. The company offers digital audio products, such as Digital Speaker Module that include speakers, enclosures, connectors, FPCs, audio DSPs, and interfaces to simplify development for PC, tablet, and smartphone required audio functionality; and digital speaker drivers, USBs, and evaluation boards for the consumer and IT markets. It provides products for applications in computer and laptop, headsets, sound-bar, and Bluetooth speaker. The company offers its products through distributors. Trigence Semiconductor, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is based in Tokyo, Japan with offices in Japan, the United States, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

Oasys Design Systems

Series B in 2012
Oasys Design Systems is a privately funded electronic design automation (EDA) software supplier with a revolutionary new platform called Chip Synthesis, a fundamental shift in how synthesis is used to design and implement ICs larger than 20-million gates. It has attracted the support of legendary EDA leaders and its RealTime Designer™ product is in use at leading-edge semiconductor and systems companies worldwide.

Sinosun Technology

Series D in 2010
Sinosun Technology (兆日科技) is a Chinese company engaged in the research, development, manufacture, and sale of anti-counterfeiting technologies for the domestic bank industry. The company is focused on applying informational anti-counterfeiting technologies to the anti-counterfeiting of bills, combined with modern encryption technologies. With constant researches and innovations in modern encryption technology, security chip technology, information security, and automatic identification technology, the company has achieved a well-known position on several key technologies.

Avnera

Series D in 2010
Avnera Corporation specializes in designing and developing analog system-on-chip (ASoC) technology products for the consumer audio industry. The company focuses on creating highly-integrated application-specific integrated circuits (ICs) that cater to various audio and voice applications. Its product offerings include wireless audio ASoC solutions for gaming headsets, home theater systems, and wireless microphones, as well as sound processor ASoC products for soundbars and Bluetooth speakers. Avnera's expertise lies in integrating diverse circuit types, including RF, power management, audio data converters, and programmable digital signal processors, onto single pieces of silicon, achieving high performance at a low system cost. The company serves a wide range of customers in the audio market, including well-known brands such as Logitech, Panasonic, and Polycom. Incorporated in 2003 and based in Beaverton, Oregon, Avnera operates as a subsidiary of Skyworks Solutions, Inc.

Taifatech

Venture Round in 2010
Taifatech is a fabless semiconductor company, designs and develops controllers that connect devices to each other or to the network.

Anobit Technologies

Series C in 2010
Anobit Technologies, Ltd. is a fabless semiconductor company specializing in the development of solutions for the Flash memory market. Founded in 2006 and based in Pituach, Israel, the company focused on optimizing Flash memory devices to enhance storage solutions. Anobit's innovations played a significant role in advancing the performance and efficiency of Flash memory technology. In December 2011, the company was acquired by Apple, further integrating its expertise into Apple's product offerings.

CiraNova

Venture Round in 2010
Ciranova, Inc. operates as an electronic design automation company. It focuses on building interoperable tools for custom chip designers to create new and/or migrate legacy analog IP. It offers products, such as PyCell Studio, which helps designers reduce the time and cost of PCell and layout generator creation for deep submicron processes; and PCell Xtreme, which enables the migration of PCells created in proprietary languages into multi-vendor OpenAccess flows. It provides custom layout generator development, Python code development consulting, custom layout consulting, and analog and mixed signal design services. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

picoChip

Venture Round in 2010
picoChip provides signal processing products for wireless communications. picoChip offers multi-core DSP, with widely deployed software-defined radio products and a growing range of cost- and performance-optimized ASSP devices.

Sinosun Technology

Series C in 2010
Sinosun Technology (兆日科技) is a Chinese company engaged in the research, development, manufacture, and sale of anti-counterfeiting technologies for the domestic bank industry. The company is focused on applying informational anti-counterfeiting technologies to the anti-counterfeiting of bills, combined with modern encryption technologies. With constant researches and innovations in modern encryption technology, security chip technology, information security, and automatic identification technology, the company has achieved a well-known position on several key technologies.

Avnera

Series D in 2010
Avnera Corporation specializes in designing and developing analog system-on-chip (ASoC) technology products for the consumer audio industry. The company focuses on creating highly-integrated application-specific integrated circuits (ICs) that cater to various audio and voice applications. Its product offerings include wireless audio ASoC solutions for gaming headsets, home theater systems, and wireless microphones, as well as sound processor ASoC products for soundbars and Bluetooth speakers. Avnera's expertise lies in integrating diverse circuit types, including RF, power management, audio data converters, and programmable digital signal processors, onto single pieces of silicon, achieving high performance at a low system cost. The company serves a wide range of customers in the audio market, including well-known brands such as Logitech, Panasonic, and Polycom. Incorporated in 2003 and based in Beaverton, Oregon, Avnera operates as a subsidiary of Skyworks Solutions, Inc.

picoChip

Series E in 2009
picoChip provides signal processing products for wireless communications. picoChip offers multi-core DSP, with widely deployed software-defined radio products and a growing range of cost- and performance-optimized ASSP devices.

Powervation

Series B in 2009
Powervation Ltd. is a semiconductor company that specializes in developing digital power integrated circuit solutions tailored for cloud computing, communication, and high-performance power system applications. Established in 2006 and headquartered in Cork, Ireland, the company offers a range of products, including single-phase and dual-phase controllers, along with a graphical user interface design tool. Powervation's innovative Auto-control digital power IC technology aims to optimize power supply performance and efficiency, simplifying design processes and reducing costs for manufacturers in various sectors, including computing and storage. The company operates globally, with facilities in the United States, Taiwan, and China, and serves its customer base through a network of sales representatives and distributors. Powervation Ltd. is a subsidiary of ROHM Co., Ltd.

IMS Nanofabrication

Venture Round in 2009
IMS Nanofabrication AG (“IMS”) is an Austrian based high-tech company and was founded in Dec 2006 through the merger of the former IMS Nanofabrication GmbH and IMS – Ionen Mikrofabrikations Systeme GmbH. IMS acts as technology innovator and provider for the nanoworld and develops lithography tools for the semiconductor and nanotech industry, concentrating its main efforts presently on the development of an electron multi-beam Mask Exposure Tool (eMET) for the fabrication of leading-edge complex masks and templates.

Powervation

Series B in 2009
Powervation Ltd. is a semiconductor company that specializes in developing digital power integrated circuit solutions tailored for cloud computing, communication, and high-performance power system applications. Established in 2006 and headquartered in Cork, Ireland, the company offers a range of products, including single-phase and dual-phase controllers, along with a graphical user interface design tool. Powervation's innovative Auto-control digital power IC technology aims to optimize power supply performance and efficiency, simplifying design processes and reducing costs for manufacturers in various sectors, including computing and storage. The company operates globally, with facilities in the United States, Taiwan, and China, and serves its customer base through a network of sales representatives and distributors. Powervation Ltd. is a subsidiary of ROHM Co., Ltd.
Imagination Technologies creates and licences semiconductor System-on-Chip Intellectual Property (SoC IP). The company also devotes resources to the development and manufacturing of DAB digital radios. Imagination has a highly skilled workforce of over 1,200 people, of which around 80% are qualified engineers. Their headquarters are in Kings Langley, Hertfordshire. Developed by their Technology division, Imagination’s IP is at the heart of the many of the world’s most iconic advanced consumer electronics products. They have UK based R&D departments in Chepstow, Leeds and Bristol; also in Wroclaw, Poland; Santa Clara, San Francisco, San Diego and Austin, USA; Pune and Hyderabad, India; Wellington, New Zealand; and Sydney, Australia. Their technology division has sales offices in Japan, the USA, Europe, Korea and Taiwan. Pure also has an R&D department in China and sales offices in France, Germany, Italy, Finland, the USA and Australia. Their Specialties: Technology, Caustic Professional, PowerVR Visual IP Cores, Ensigma Communications IP Cores, Meta Processor/DSP IP Cores, MIPS, HelloSoft SDKs, Pure.
Imagination Technologies creates and licences semiconductor System-on-Chip Intellectual Property (SoC IP). The company also devotes resources to the development and manufacturing of DAB digital radios. Imagination has a highly skilled workforce of over 1,200 people, of which around 80% are qualified engineers. Their headquarters are in Kings Langley, Hertfordshire. Developed by their Technology division, Imagination’s IP is at the heart of the many of the world’s most iconic advanced consumer electronics products. They have UK based R&D departments in Chepstow, Leeds and Bristol; also in Wroclaw, Poland; Santa Clara, San Francisco, San Diego and Austin, USA; Pune and Hyderabad, India; Wellington, New Zealand; and Sydney, Australia. Their technology division has sales offices in Japan, the USA, Europe, Korea and Taiwan. Pure also has an R&D department in China and sales offices in France, Germany, Italy, Finland, the USA and Australia. Their Specialties: Technology, Caustic Professional, PowerVR Visual IP Cores, Ensigma Communications IP Cores, Meta Processor/DSP IP Cores, MIPS, HelloSoft SDKs, Pure.

Aicent

Series D in 2008
Aicent, Inc., founded in 2000, is a leading provider of data network services and solutions for mobile operators worldwide. The company connects more than 200 global mobile operators, including ten of the largest in the industry, through extensive partnerships and peering arrangements. Aicent's network supports seamless roaming for subscribers across 2G, 3G, and 4G LTE networks. Its roaming hub offers integrated mobile messaging solutions and value-added data services, enabling telecom carriers to enhance their revenue opportunities and improve global connectivity. Aicent's comprehensive infrastructure aims to facilitate efficient communication and data transfer across international operator networks.

Accertify

Series A in 2008
[Accertify](http://www.accertify.com/) develops integrated tools for merchants to identify the fraudulent use of credit cards in online, telephone or any card not present transactions. via: [Accertify](http://www.accertify.com/)

VeriSilicon

Series D in 2007
VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd. is an integrated circuit (IC) design foundry that provides custom silicon solutions and system-on-chip (SoC) turnkey services for a wide range of electronic devices and systems, including smart phones, media tablets, HDTVs, set-top boxes, blu-ray DVD players, home gateways, networking, and data centers. VeriSilicon's technology solutions leverage licensable digital signal processing cores, Hantro Video IPs, eDRAM, and others that can be targeted for a wide range of process technology, including advanced nodes like 28nm and FD-SOI.

Nascentric

Series C in 2007
Nascentric, Inc., an electronic design automation company, develops and markets simulators for analysis and functional verification of complex nanometer designs. It offers OmegaSim, a rocket-fast SPICE simulator; OmegaSim AMS, an analog/mixed-signal Fast-SPICE simulator; and OmegaSim GX, a hardware-accelerated SPICE simulator. The company’s products allow designers to simulate, analyze, and verify circuits and improve design quality. Its products also enable to analyze and optimize the mixed-signal, custom digital, and memory designs. Nascentric, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas with a regional office in San Jose, California.

Avnera

Series C in 2007
Avnera Corporation specializes in designing and developing analog system-on-chip (ASoC) technology products for the consumer audio industry. The company focuses on creating highly-integrated application-specific integrated circuits (ICs) that cater to various audio and voice applications. Its product offerings include wireless audio ASoC solutions for gaming headsets, home theater systems, and wireless microphones, as well as sound processor ASoC products for soundbars and Bluetooth speakers. Avnera's expertise lies in integrating diverse circuit types, including RF, power management, audio data converters, and programmable digital signal processors, onto single pieces of silicon, achieving high performance at a low system cost. The company serves a wide range of customers in the audio market, including well-known brands such as Logitech, Panasonic, and Polycom. Incorporated in 2003 and based in Beaverton, Oregon, Avnera operates as a subsidiary of Skyworks Solutions, Inc.

picoChip

Series D in 2007
picoChip provides signal processing products for wireless communications. picoChip offers multi-core DSP, with widely deployed software-defined radio products and a growing range of cost- and performance-optimized ASSP devices.

Andigilog

Series B in 2007
Andigilog, Inc., a fabless analog and mixed-signal semiconductor company, provides intelligent thermal management solutions. Its products include sensor interface integrated circuits, temperature sensors, system controllers, and brushless DC fan motor controllers. The company’s products are used in personal computers, servers, cell phones, and consumer electronics, as well as in automotive, industrial, biomedical, and security systems. It serves customers in the computing, cellular, consumer, and industrial electronics markets. The company offers its products through a sales network. Andigilog, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Tempe, Arizona.

Silistix

Series A in 2007
Silistix enables semiconductor companies to get "their designs right the first time using predictable NoC (Network-on-Chip) solutions for managing chip complexity."

Fortemedia

Venture Round in 2006
Fortemedia, Inc. specializes in the design and development of advanced voice processing technologies and semiconductor products aimed at enhancing voice communication between humans and machines. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with additional offices in Asia, the company provides a variety of voice processor solutions, including ForteVoice and FM23, which cater to mobile phones, VoIP systems, automotive applications, and personal computing devices. Fortemedia's offerings also encompass small array microphone solutions, featuring digital CMOS MEMS microphones, and smart microphone processor solutions designed for voice trigger processing. Recognized as a technology leader, Fortemedia has filed for over 200 patents, with more than 75 issued, reflecting its commitment to innovation in the Internet of Things, automotive infotainment, and consumer electronics markets. The company's integrated iSAM business model combines voice processing technology with various components to enhance voice interface solutions globally.
Imagination Technologies creates and licences semiconductor System-on-Chip Intellectual Property (SoC IP). The company also devotes resources to the development and manufacturing of DAB digital radios. Imagination has a highly skilled workforce of over 1,200 people, of which around 80% are qualified engineers. Their headquarters are in Kings Langley, Hertfordshire. Developed by their Technology division, Imagination’s IP is at the heart of the many of the world’s most iconic advanced consumer electronics products. They have UK based R&D departments in Chepstow, Leeds and Bristol; also in Wroclaw, Poland; Santa Clara, San Francisco, San Diego and Austin, USA; Pune and Hyderabad, India; Wellington, New Zealand; and Sydney, Australia. Their technology division has sales offices in Japan, the USA, Europe, Korea and Taiwan. Pure also has an R&D department in China and sales offices in France, Germany, Italy, Finland, the USA and Australia. Their Specialties: Technology, Caustic Professional, PowerVR Visual IP Cores, Ensigma Communications IP Cores, Meta Processor/DSP IP Cores, MIPS, HelloSoft SDKs, Pure.

Cortina Systems

Series D in 2006
Cortina Systems is a prominent supplier of intelligent communication solutions, specializing in advanced port processing and connectivity across various market segments, including Core, Metro, Access, and Enterprise. The company focuses on high-speed analog-digital integration, offering a diverse range of products designed to meet customer demands for performance, density, and flexibility. By understanding and anticipating client needs, Cortina Systems aims to facilitate faster time-to-market and enhance revenue opportunities for its customers. Through continuous innovation, the company is committed to developing foundational technologies that support the evolution of new service generations in the communications semiconductor sector.

Avnera

Series B in 2006
Avnera Corporation specializes in designing and developing analog system-on-chip (ASoC) technology products for the consumer audio industry. The company focuses on creating highly-integrated application-specific integrated circuits (ICs) that cater to various audio and voice applications. Its product offerings include wireless audio ASoC solutions for gaming headsets, home theater systems, and wireless microphones, as well as sound processor ASoC products for soundbars and Bluetooth speakers. Avnera's expertise lies in integrating diverse circuit types, including RF, power management, audio data converters, and programmable digital signal processors, onto single pieces of silicon, achieving high performance at a low system cost. The company serves a wide range of customers in the audio market, including well-known brands such as Logitech, Panasonic, and Polycom. Incorporated in 2003 and based in Beaverton, Oregon, Avnera operates as a subsidiary of Skyworks Solutions, Inc.

inSilica

Series B in 2006
inSilica, a fabless semiconductor company, provides ASIC and system-on-chip solutions. The company offers multimedia and printing processors for various imaging and printing devices, including digital multimedia, digital printing, and mobile imaging. It has design centers in India and Slovenia. inSilica, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.