Pre-Seed, Seed
$500K – $2.0M
$2.2B
31+ companies
7 partners
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Focused exclusively on semiconductor startups addressing hardware, EDA tools, and chip design challenges.
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2025
Athos Silicon
Building the world's first functionally safe chiplet-based compute platform for real-time autonomy in robotics, automotive, and avionics.
2024
Diamond Quanta
Revolutionizing the semiconductor industry with groundbreaking diamond technology.
2020
Gigantor Technologies
Pioneers in neural network acceleration technology.
Other
MoRF
Dedicated to pushing the boundaries of technology and redefining the world of RF semiconductors.
WiConnectGlobal
Develops fast optical devices for high-speed photonic interconnects.
Chevin Technology
Assures the authenticity, origin & journey of FPGAs, ASICs and Chiplets can be verified & secured.
TeraSpatial
Building wireless communications and networking solutions comprising silicon, software and deeply embedded AI/ML.
Blacksol Nanotech
Expert in carbon product manufacture, focusing on carbon nanocomposite.
HEPT Lab
Developing a fully solid-state, coherent 3D image sensor for autonomous devices.
Edgewater Wireless
Provider of innovative spectrum slicing technology for Wi-Fi.
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Other — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $500K – $2.0M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Tarun Verma, Managing Partner.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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