Silicon Catalyst
Silicon Catalyst is an accelerator and seed-stage investor based in Santa Clara, California. Founded in 2014, it supports startups that require semiconductor design and IP, while also engaging with companies in IoT, artificial intelligence, wearables, energy, transportation and other silicon-enabled sectors. The organization provides funding and in-kind services to address bottlenecks in leadership design, fabrication and testing of semiconductor chips, helping entrepreneurs move from concept to prototype. By offering capital alongside hands-on support and access to tooling and fabrication pathways, Silicon Catalyst aims to accelerate the development and commercialization of silicon-centric technologies across information technology, health tech, life sciences and related fields.
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SigmaSense
Seed Round in 2019
SigmaSense is a technology company that develops digital sensing systems to solve noise immunity and tuning challenges in touch sensing for consumer devices, large-format interactive displays, and custom sensing applications. Its SigmaTouch Controller uses capacitive imaging to concurrently transmit and receive for self-capacitance, mutual capacitance, and pen input from a single pin. The company also offers SigmaScribe, a digital writing appliance, and Sigma-delta Architecture for capacitive imaging, enabling high-precision sensing across mobile devices, automotive applications, wearables, and harsh-environment displays. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, with additional locations in Boise, Idaho and New Taipei City, Taiwan.
Quadric
Series A in 2019
Quadric is a technology company founded in 2016 and headquartered in Burlingame, California, specializing in edge processors designed for on-device artificial intelligence computing. The company's innovative GPNPU processor IP cores are licensed to System-on-Chip developers across various industries, including consumer products, mobile, industrial, and automotive sectors. Quadric's processors are engineered to efficiently handle matrix and vector operations alongside scalar control code within a single execution pipeline. This capability allows developers to run a wide range of AI models and achieve high scalability on a single core, facilitating the direct deployment of AI solutions on devices.
AEPONYX
Seed Round in 2017
AEPONYX designs and manufactures fabless micro optical switch semiconductor chips for tunable transceivers and optical circuit switches. It combines planar MEMS and silicon photonics to enable disaggregated switching systems and tunability in both transmission and reception in pluggable transceivers. Its photonic integrated circuits integrate MEMS and thermo-optic switches with silicon nitride, supporting high-speed data transmission and flexible optical switching for telecom, datacom, and cloud applications. Founded in 2011 and based in Montreal, the company focuses on fiber optic access to the cloud and next-generation optical networks by delivering compact, energy-efficient micro optical switches.
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