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Every round we have collected, newest first — company, what it actually does in one plain sentence, the amount as its source reported it, and a link back to that source. The weekly summary, the takeaway and the i-Index live on the main Intake page.
314 rounds held · 17 Jul 2026 → 11 Sept 2026 · 19 collection runs
Semiconductors
1–17 of 17- 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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