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602 rounds held · 17 Jul 2026 → 30 Oct 2026 · 33 collection runs
Semiconductors
1–35 of 35- 30 Oct 2026Nano-core Chip¥1bn (reported)
Designs chips that run already-trained AI models, and is preparing to make them in volume.
- 29 Oct 2026FuriosaAI$620m (reported)
Designs chips for running trained AI models, claiming better efficiency than Nvidia's professional cards.
- 23 Oct 2026Huixi Technology
Designs the chips that handle a robot's perception and movement control.
- 21 Oct 2026Photon Bridge€10m (reported)
Makes the lasers that carry data between AI chips, aiming at the millions needed as clusters grow.
- 19 Oct 2026Tenstorrent$1.5bn (reported)
Designs chips for running AI models and publishes the designs openly, positioning itself against Nvidia.
- 14 Oct 2026Salience Labs$125m (reported)
Switching chips that move data between AI servers using light instead of electrical signals.
- 14 Oct 2026Scimplify$25m (reported)
Makes speciality chemicals to order, now pushing into the chemicals used in chip manufacturing.
- 14 Oct 2026SUNMMIO
Designs 3D-stacked chips built to run large AI models faster when they are answering, rather than training.
- 13 Oct 2026Ubitium$14m (reported)
Designs a single general-purpose processor chip for autonomous machines and other hardware that has to run AI on board.
- 8 Oct 2026Universal Quantum$100m (reported)
Building large quantum computers out of linked modules, from a University of Sussex spinout.
- 7 Oct 2026MintNeuro$5m (reported)
Designs chips small and frugal enough to sit inside neural implants and wearable devices.
- 29 Sept 2026SiMa.ai$150m (reported)
Designs silicon built specifically to run AI models.
- 22 Sept 2026Lightspring€3.1m (reported)
Manufacturing technology for photonic chips, aimed at the bottleneck that limits how many can be made.
- 22 Sept 2026Morphotonics€40m (reported)
Makes the equipment used to pattern very large display screens, and is adapting it for data-centre hardware.
- 18 Sept 2026D-Robotics$400m (reported)
Chips and the developer software that goes with them, sold to companies building robots.
- 18 Sept 2026TUSK IC€15m (reported)
Designs the radio chips that satellites use to send and receive data, and is now putting them into volume production.
- 15 Sept 2026Cornelis Networks$205m (reported)
Makes networking technology that links computers together in AI data centres, spun out of Intel.
- 15 Sept 2026EUCLYD€200m (reported)
Building energy-efficient chip systems for running large AI models, with the first hardware due from 2028.
- 9 Sept 2026SCI Semiconductor£5m (reported)
Makes computer chips designed so that memory-related security bugs cannot happen, and is now scaling up production.
- 31 Aug 2026S-Transistors€2.6m (reported)
Building integrated circuits out of superconducting transistors, aimed first at controlling and reading the signals inside quantum computers.
- 31 Aug 2026Sunrise¥2bn (reported)Rumoured · not indexed
Designs chips that run AI models, spun out of SenseTime's chip division.
- 21 Aug 2026HexSeed Technology£600k (reported)
Develops a diamond-coating material that stops AI computer chips from overheating.
- 20 Aug 2026Solinide€4m (reported)
Silicon-nitride photonic chips for AI data centres, moving toward mass manufacturing.
- 19 Aug 2026Singular Photonics$2.2m (reported)
Single-photon avalanche diode image sensors with on-chip computation, made by a University of Edinburgh spinout.
- 18 Aug 2026SweGaN€12.1m (reported)
Manufactures gallium-nitride-on-silicon-carbide wafers used to make advanced semiconductor chips.
- 17 Aug 2026Groq
Designs AI inference chips for running AI models efficiently.
- 11 Aug 2026Discovered Materials$9m (reported)
Uses AI to discover new materials for semiconductor manufacturing.
- 6 Aug 2026SeeTrue Technologies€2.2m (reported)
Ultra-low-power eye-tracking hardware for wearables and other devices.
- 4 Aug 2026DeepX$30m (reported)
Designs AI processor chips for edge devices; says it has secured over 30 mass-production contracts across eight countries.
- 4 Aug 2026Fangqing TechnologyRumoured · not indexed
Chinese AI-chip designer, reportedly closing a new funding round (unconfirmed).
- 3 Aug 2026OLIX€270.5m (reported)
Designs specialised silicon chips to replace general-purpose GPUs for AI inference workloads.
- 31 Jul 2026Keiron Printing Technologies€20.7m (reported)
Makes precision solder-paste printing equipment for electronics manufacturing.
- 31 Jul 2026Xsight Labs$300m (reported)
Designs chips that connect servers together inside AI and cloud data centers.
- 28 Jul 2026ZuriQ$25.5m (reported)
An ETH Zurich spinout building trapped-ion quantum computer processors.
- 24 Jul 2026Etched$300m (reported)
Designs specialized computer chips built to run AI models efficiently.
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