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Overlord Labs, founded in 2025 and based in San Jose, California, is a fabless semiconductor company whose GENESIS Battery Intelligence IC integrates battery intelligence algorithms into silicon for edge AI devices such as smart glasses, wearables and hearables, targeting Tier-1 OEMs with volume production planned for 1H 2027.

Seed · $10M · 2026-09

Niobium (Niobium Microsystems, Inc.) was spun out of cryptography firm Galois in 2021 and is headquartered in Dayton, Ohio. It builds purpose-built hardware accelerators for fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), positioned as 'zero trust computing' that lets data be computed in the cloud without decryption, and co-founded the FHE hardware consortium FHETCH.

$6M

TetraMem is a Silicon Valley semiconductor startup (with a Singapore team) building analog in-memory computing chips. Its RRAM memristor crossbar technology powers neural processing units and AI inference accelerators (MX200 series) for low-power edge AI in wearables, smart sensors, robotic vision, security cameras and automotive systems, and it partners with Andes Technology on a RISC-V AI accelerator.

CiMicro.ai (思敏威集成电路), founded in 2024 in Shanghai, China, is a developer of AI inference architecture platforms and 3D compute-in-memory chips.

Angel · $15M · 2026-10

逻辑比特 (Logic Bit Technology), founded in 2022 in Hangzhou by the superconducting quantum computing team from Zhejiang University, develops superconducting quantum chips, kilobit-scale quantum control and RF systems, and quantum computing cloud platforms.

Series A · $7M · 2026-07

Founded in January 2024 and based in Shanghai, Guangqiu Technology develops silicon-photonic AI processors for edge computing using an all-optical reservoir-computing architecture built on the nonlinear dynamics of semiconductor lasers. Co-founded by ShanghaiTech professor Wang Cheng and Li Ruiqian, its chips target sub-100-nanosecond system-level inference latency, 10GHz-class operating frequency and real-time adaptive training. Its silicon photonic chip has completed a first tape-out validation.

Angel · 2026-09

Olix, founded in 2024 in London, develops photonic AI chips targeting inference workloads to reduce high-bandwidth memory constraints.

Series B · $532M · 2026-08 · Valuation $3.3B

Founded in 2015 in Paris, designs AI inference chips for automotive, mobile, and data center applications, including its Jotunn8 (J8) processor.

Undisclosed · $46M · 2025-05

Gemesys, founded in 2022 in Germany, develops analog computing chips to enhance AI capabilities in devices such as smartphones and sensors, delivering data and energy efficiency for edge AI.

Pre-Seed · $9M · 2024-11

Founded in 2021 in Tel Aviv, QuamCore designs superconducting quantum processor architectures that embed digital control logic within the cryogenic chamber, targeting integration of one million qubits within a single cryostat.

Series A · $34M · 2025-08

EUCLYD, founded in 2024 by Bernardo Kastrup and Atul Sinha at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, builds ultra-efficient AI infrastructure for foundation models. It combines programmable ASIC compute (flagship product Craftwerk), the rack-scale CWS 32 system, processor-memory co-design and system-level optimization to reduce the power consumption, memory bandwidth requirements and infrastructure complexity of AI inference. Target customers are the enterprise, sovereign and hyperscale AI markets, addressing what the company calls the industry's 'AI efficiency wall'.

Series A · 2026-09

DEEPX, founded in 2018 in Seoul, South Korea, develops on-device AI chips (NPUs) and accompanying software for AI applications in electronic devices.

Series C · $80M · 2024-05