Silicon Catalyst
Silicon Catalyst is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Campbell, CA investing in Other. The firm typically writes $500K–$2.0M checks and has 31 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $500K–$2.0M
- Portfolio
- 31 companies on record
- Partners
- 7 listed
- AUM
- $2.2B
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Other
- HQ
- Campbell, CA
Last verified: 2026-05-04
Pre-Seed, Seed
$500K – $2.0M
$2.2B
31+ companies
7 partners
Investment Thesis
Focused exclusively on semiconductor startups addressing hardware, EDA tools, and chip design challenges.
How Silicon Catalyst invests
Silicon Catalyst is a vc firm based in Campbell, CA. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other.
Silicon Catalyst typically writes checks of $500K–$2.0M per investment, backed by approximately $2.2B in assets under management.
Investing since at least 2020, Silicon Catalyst has backed 31 companies in our records, including Athos Silicon, Diamond Quanta, Gigantor Technologies. Its most recent recorded investment was in 2025, with 1 investment logged over the last 12 months.
Partners & Team
Industry Focus
Invests In
Portfolio Companies (31)
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 Nick Kepler, Chief Operating Officer.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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