Silicon Catalyst

Salience Labs is building a hybrid photonic-electronic chip for AI. The company in photonic solutions aimed at enhancing connectivity for AI data center infrastructure. The company emerged from over a decade of research at the University of Oxford and the University of Münster, focusing on silicon photonics to address the growing demands of AI workloads. The company's flagship product is an optical switch designed to facilitate all-optical networking between compute nodes. This innovation aims to eliminate bottlenecks in data movement, offering low-latency, high-bandwidth networking that accelerates job completion while reducing power consumption and costs.

Polyn Technology is Fabless Semiconductor Company introducing the Neuromorphic Front End and Smart Sensor Solutions. We bring analog neuromorphic processing to the sensor edge with 1000x reduction in data streaming and power. Markets: Hearables, Wearables, Industrial IoT 4.0, AR/VR where we solve the problem of complex signal processing with neural networks in constraint power budgets.

A brand-new first person view multimodal AI + AR for connecting and empowering people. It's our mission to augmented human motivations and curiosity to its maximum potentials and efficiency with advanced AI and interface. Kura is developing a multimodal AI platform and APIs which combine visual, voice, motion, and gesture inputs to augment users' workflow and activities. Kura currently supports general and domain-specific questions, real-time information retrieval and generation using large language models, and retrieval augmented generation (RAG), a technique which combines a fast and referenceable vector database with an LLM. With real-time visuals from the built-in camera system, imagery can also be used as part of the prompt. Kura is a SaaS platfrom including AI wearable and software. Kura have developed the most powerful wearable augmented reality glasses from the chip level in partnership with TSMC (largest semiconductor foundry) and other industrial leaders, which solves the biggest adoption bottleneck on AR and wearable AI with the most immersive, high resolution and clear visual quality. Along with the world's first AI-generated optics and software stack. Kura's team consist of both industrial veteran and experts as well as young inventors, including 50%+ of team from MIT, from professors, Ph.D, to researchers; with 3 lead engineers with 400+ patents, and the co-inventor of deep UV lithography process and many industrial defining technologies.

Lemurian Labs is redefining AI infrastructure with a universal compute platform that unifies training, inference, and deployment across any hardware. Built on a hardware-aware compiler and dynamic runtime, Lemurian replaces today’s patchwork of tools with a single, performance-portable software layer. At the heart of the platform is Helix—a Pythonic DSL that turns high-level code into optimized, scalable execution across chips, memory, and clusters. By fusing performance, portability, and simplicity, Lemurian gives AI teams the power to move faster, scale effortlessly, and deploy anywhere—without compromise.

Trameto is developing intelligent, ultra-efficient power management devices for universal micro energy harvesting - to enable applications such as ‘self-sustaining’ autonomous wireless devices for the internet of things.

Dover Microsystems brings real security, safety, and privacy enforcement to silicon. Its hardware-based technology empowers processors to protect themselves in real-time from the exploitation of software vulnerabilities that can stop all network-based attacks. The company's mission is to immunize the world’s processors against all network-based attacks. Every instruction executed to ensure it meets a set of security, safety, and privacy rules acts as a bodyguard to the host processor, monitoring every instruction executed to ensure it meets a set of security, safety, and privacy rules. With CoreGuard, a processor can actively stop entire classes of network-based attacks and prevent the exploitation of software vulnerabilities.

SigmaSense is providing the first digital and fully scalable sensing technology to solve the noise immunity and tuning challenges of traditional touch sensors. Their SigmaTouch Controller utilizes a breakthrough in Capacitive Imaging to concurrently transmit and receive for self-capacitance, mutual capacitance, and pen from a single pin. The unique approach to Capacitive Imaging has the potential to affect positive disruption across many industries where intuitive machine interfaces will decide the winners. SigmaSense technology enables access to game-changing information about interactions with mobile devices, large format interactive displays, and limitless custom sensing applications. Join us in pioneering the next evolutionary progression of perceptive machines.

Quadric's GPNPU processor IP cores are licensed to System-on-Chip developers in a diverse range of end markets, including consumer products, mobile, industrial and automotive segments. quadric.io was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Burlingame, CA, USA.

Eridan is building the world’s first digital sampling radio for 4G, 5G, and beyond. Eridan's unique transceiver architecture produces all sub-6GHz cellular signals at full transmit power, eliminating the need for linear power amplifiers. This fully digital wireless signal generation approach consumes 5-10x less power to transmit the same amount of data.

ProbiusDx is an electronic sensing company that provides a diagnostic technology for detecting and monitoring blood concentrations.

Seamless Microsystems, Inc. is a semiconductor company based in Fremont, California, established in 2017. The firm specializes in the design and manufacturing of patented Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs), with an initial focus on markets such as medical imaging and 4G/WiFi. Utilizing silicon-proven devices from TSMC’s 28nm HPM process, Seamless Microsystems is advancing its next generation of products to meet the high bandwidth needs of emerging technologies, including LIDAR, 5G wireless, and G.fast communication systems. The company's continuous-time sigma-delta ADCs are designed to reduce system costs by relaxing anti-aliasing requirements and lowering power consumption due to their resistive input architecture. Furthermore, these ADCs are engineered to tolerate high levels of clock jitter, allowing for the use of more economical phase-locked loops (PLLs) in clock generation, making them suitable for a diverse range of applications, from consumer electronics to autonomous driving.

AEPONYX is a fabless micro optical switch semiconductor chips designer and manufacturer. AEPONYX chips are targeted at fiber optic access to the Cloud and optical switching in the Cloud. With its patented and patent pending technologies, combining planar Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS) and Silicon Photonics, AEPONYX is building the fastest, most affordable and smallest micro optical switches for use in disaggregated switching systems and enabling tunability in both transmission & reception in pluggable transceivers. This creates opportunities for optical circuit switching and a new generation of tunable transceivers, increasing the capacity on both ends of the optical fiber while lowering power consumption.By combining Silicon Photonics with MEMS, AEPONYX is creating a unique platform that can support the next generation of optical communications.

SPARK Microsystems is a fabless semiconductor company that is leading the way towards ultra-low power wireless communications for the Internet of Things revolution. With its patented technologies, SPARK Microsystems will bring to market a high performance wireless transceiver that allows for orders of magnitude improved power consumption and latency while providing higher data rates than competing technologies. For more information, please visit www.sparkmicro.com.

Ayar Labs develops a monolithic in-package optical I/O (MIPO) solution for applications that require high bandwidth, low latency, and power-efficient short-reach interconnects. The company disrupts the traditional performance, cost, and efficiency curves of the semiconductor and computing industries by driving improvement in interconnect bandwidth density at lower power. Its patented approach uses industry-standard cost-effective silicon processing techniques to develop high speed, high density, low power optical-based interconnect “chiplets” and lasers to replace traditional electrical-based I/O. Ayar’s flagship product is a chip called TeraPhy that implements its optical technology on compact silicon die. The chip can be integrated directly into a central processing unit, graphics card, or another processor to give it optical data transmission capabilities.

Adapdix provides an innovative software platform for enterprises that optimizes Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) at the edge. The company's customer-centric Adapdix EdgeOps™ platform provides previously unmatched performance increases in uptime of equipment, reduction in supply chain and logistics cost and increases in remote worker control and productivity. Adapdix software automates operational and business decisions reliably in real-time and allows scaling of AI technologies across the enterprise. The company has launched its products at leading industrial firms and OEM/machine equipment partners, contributing significant operational improvements.

REX Computing develops a range of massively parallel and high density computing systems. The company was founded by Thomas Sohmers in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.