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Cadence Design Systems (Corporate VC Arm)

VC
San Jose, CAWebsite
How to approach: cold outreach ok
Stage

Seed, Series A

Check Size

$1.0M – $3.0M

Portfolio

22+ companies

Team

9 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Cadence Ventures focuses on furthering innovations in electronic design automation, semiconductors, and related technologies for hardware design.

Meet the Team

PS

Praveen Sharangpani

Director of Corporate Investments

EDA
Semiconductors
Hardware
AW

Andy Wallace

Senior Account Executive

GD

Gary Dick

Director of Engineering

XW

Xiaoyu Wang

Sales Director

JL

Jay Lee

Sales Director

AM

Alan Mcniel

Senior Sales Executive

DB

David Botticello

Solutions Director

VR

Vincent Reynolds

Director of Product Engineering

LW

Lutong Wang

Software Engineer

Industry Focus

Invests In

Other
Developer Tools
AI / ML

Portfolio Companies (22)

Other

AC

Achronix

Semiconductors (FPGA)
TE

Tensilica (Acquired)

EDA
LI

Lightmatter

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

IN

InspireSemi

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

NV

NVIDIA

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

NV

NV5

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

EQ

Equal1

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

SK

Skycore

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

GA

Gateway Design Automation

Electronic Design Automation (EDA)·Acquired (1989)

"Discovered via perplexity (medium confidence)"

Provider of simulation software for electronic design.

IN

Integrand Software

Semiconductor Simulation·Acquired (2020)

"Discovered via perplexity (medium confidence)"

Developer of method of moments solver technology for 3D-IC simulation, analysis, and characterization.

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