CamGraPhIC
Series A in 2025
CamGraPhIC is an integrated photonics platform that focuses on addressing the growing demand for data traffic through its advanced electro-optical engines. The company specializes in graphene photonics technology, which enhances optical telecommunications, particularly in 5G and data center applications. Its solutions are characterized by high data rates, low costs, and low power consumption, making them ideal for next-generation optical transceivers. CamGraPhIC's technology is compatible with various photonic materials, including silicon and silicon nitride, and can be synthesized and integrated using scalable wafer-level processes. This capability enables clients to efficiently utilize the bandwidth necessary for emerging digital applications, such as cloud services and the Internet of Things.
Li Industries
Series B in 2024
Li Industries is a start-up focused on advancing lithium-ion battery recycling technologies. The company specializes in the recovery of valuable materials such as lithium, cobalt, and nickel from end-of-life batteries used in electric vehicles, consumer electronics, and other energy storage systems. By utilizing innovative direct recycling technology and a scalable electrochemical flow system, Li Industries aims to extract these essential metals efficiently and sustainably. This process not only reduces environmental waste but also supports the production of new batteries from recycled components. By optimizing the recovery and treatment of these materials, Li Industries contributes to lowering energy consumption and emissions in the battery production process, ultimately fostering a more sustainable supply chain for battery manufacturing.
ARRIS
Venture Round in 2024
ARRIS specializes in advanced manufacturing technologies, particularly in the development of performance composites for various mass-market applications, including aerospace, automotive, and consumer products. The company's innovative additive molding technology enables the production of 3D-aligned continuous fiber thermoplastic composite parts at scale. This proprietary process allows for the precise alignment of continuous carbon fibers and the integration of electronic components and multifunctional materials into a single, topology-optimized structure. By combining these elements, ARRIS provides clients with access to advanced composite solutions that enhance product performance and efficiency.
Jinsheng New Energy
Series B in 2022
Jinsheng New Energy is a company dedicated to lithium battery recycling and the comprehensive utilization of battery materials, emphasizing sustainability and innovation. It specializes in extracting valuable materials such as nickel sulfate, cobalt sulfate, manganese sulfate, and lithium carbonate from retired lithium batteries. By focusing on creating a closed-loop industry, Jinsheng New Energy aims to reduce environmental pollution associated with decommissioned batteries. The company's offerings not only include recycling solutions but also extend to the production of battery-grade materials, enabling large enterprises to enhance the economic value of discarded lithium batteries while promoting environmental stewardship.
ItoM offers IP and design services with intergrated services in tuners for radio, television receivers and mobile phone transceivers.
Scintil Photonics
Venture Round in 2022
Scintil Photonics SAS is a company based in Grenoble, France, that specializes in the development of silicon photonic integrated circuits. Founded in 2018, the company offers a range of products, including laser integration, multi-wavelength lasers, waveguides, wavelength filters, and photodetectors. Scintil Photonics employs a unique approach by combining silicon and indium phosphide materials through wafer-scale bonding, utilizing commercial silicon foundry processes to create fully integrated photonic circuits. These circuits are designed to enhance high-speed optical communications and chip interconnections, providing a single-chip solution that integrates optical amplifiers and lasers with silicon modulators and germanium photodetectors. This innovative technology improves performance and reliability while significantly reducing implementation costs across various industries.
Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform that provides flexible and user-friendly hardware and software tools. It serves a diverse audience, including artists, designers, and hobbyists, who are interested in developing interactive objects and environments. By democratizing advanced technologies, Arduino empowers users to innovate across various fields such as music, gaming, toys, smart homes, farming, and autonomous vehicles. The company also markets its products under the Genuino brand outside the United States, further broadening its global reach. Through its offerings, Arduino enhances the accessibility of electronics and digital technologies, fostering creativity and enabling users to improve their lives through interactive design.
Autozilla Solutions
Corporate Round in 2022
Autozilla Solutions specialises in the development of electronic parts catalogues for spare parts. Making procurement of spare parts simple, hassle-free and digitally enabled is a key area of focus for the company.
CelLink Corporation, founded in 2012 and headquartered in Belmont, California, specializes in the development of flexible conductive backplanes and circuits designed for power electronics. The company focuses on creating high-conductance, large-area flexible circuits that integrate multiple functionalities, including busing, fusing, and voltage and temperature monitoring. These innovations are intended for use in a variety of applications such as batteries, light-emitting diodes, wire harnessing, and solar cells, facilitating efficient power transmission. By offering these advanced circuits, CelLink aims to provide customers with affordable solutions that enhance the performance and reliability of their power-related devices.
ARRIS specializes in advanced manufacturing technologies, particularly in the development of performance composites for various mass-market applications, including aerospace, automotive, and consumer products. The company's innovative additive molding technology enables the production of 3D-aligned continuous fiber thermoplastic composite parts at scale. This proprietary process allows for the precise alignment of continuous carbon fibers and the integration of electronic components and multifunctional materials into a single, topology-optimized structure. By combining these elements, ARRIS provides clients with access to advanced composite solutions that enhance product performance and efficiency.
The Ferroelectric Memory Company
Series B in 2020
The Ferroelectric Memory Company (FMC), based in Dresden, Germany, specializes in providing embedded nonvolatile memory solutions to the semiconductor industry. FMC's core technology is based on ferroelectric hafnium oxide (FE-HfO2), enabling ultra-low-power, high-performance, and dense non-volatile storage. This technology, known as FeFET, transforms classical high-k metal-gate transistors into nonvolatile ferroelectric field effect transistors, allowing for easy scaling of microcontrollers from 65nm down to 5nm and beyond. FMC's solutions offer significant advantages, including a 80% reduction in system-on-chip (SoC) cost, a 1000x reduction in write energy per bit, and a 70% overall performance gain. The company's technology is designed to be compatible with cutting-edge technology nodes, making it a future-proof solution for the semiconductor industry.
UltraSense Systems
Series B in 2020
UltraSense Systems develops integrated 3D ultrasound sensor solutions for various industries. The company's flagship product, TouchPoint sensors, provides a low-power user interface that can detect touch and force through virtually any material using patented 3D ultrasound technology. These sensors are utilized in applications ranging from mobile phones and wearables to home appliances, automotive, medical, and industrial sectors. UltraSense Systems was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with additional locations in Shanghai, China, and Zhubei City, Taiwan. The company distributes its products through various channels.
SimYog Technology specializes in the development of electromagnetic interference (EMI) and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) simulation software, aimed at enhancing the design phase of electronic hardware. Its flagship product, CompScope, serves as a virtual EMI/EMC laboratory, enabling users to predict compliance tests for various emissions and susceptibility scenarios. By facilitating Design for EMC, SimYog's tools assist hardware developers in identifying potential EMI/EMC issues early in the design process, thereby minimizing risks associated with compliance testing. The company’s innovative approach integrates computational software with data science, streamlining the verification process and significantly reducing time and revenue losses for semiconductor and system companies worldwide.
Feixin Electronic Technology
Seed Round in 2018
Feixin Electronic Technology is a Smart Hardware company.
Pyreos
Venture Round in 2018
Pyreos Limited is a UK-based company specializing in the development of infrared sensor array products. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Edinburgh, Pyreos utilizes patented thin film pyro-electric ceramic technology to create a range of infrared sensors applicable in various fields. The company's product offerings include bare die arrays, packaged components, and custom arrays designed for motion and occupancy detection, flame detection, people counting, gas analysis, spectroscopy, and infrared camera applications. Pyreos focuses on three primary markets—food safety, gas detection, and fuel/oil condition monitoring—where its compact and high-performance sensors operate in the mid-infrared spectrum, allowing for precise identification of material molecular compositions.
Pyreos
Venture Round in 2016
Pyreos Limited is a UK-based company specializing in the development of infrared sensor array products. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Edinburgh, Pyreos utilizes patented thin film pyro-electric ceramic technology to create a range of infrared sensors applicable in various fields. The company's product offerings include bare die arrays, packaged components, and custom arrays designed for motion and occupancy detection, flame detection, people counting, gas analysis, spectroscopy, and infrared camera applications. Pyreos focuses on three primary markets—food safety, gas detection, and fuel/oil condition monitoring—where its compact and high-performance sensors operate in the mid-infrared spectrum, allowing for precise identification of material molecular compositions.
CelLink
Seed Round in 2015
CelLink Corporation, founded in 2012 and headquartered in Belmont, California, specializes in the development of flexible conductive backplanes and circuits designed for power electronics. The company focuses on creating high-conductance, large-area flexible circuits that integrate multiple functionalities, including busing, fusing, and voltage and temperature monitoring. These innovations are intended for use in a variety of applications such as batteries, light-emitting diodes, wire harnessing, and solar cells, facilitating efficient power transmission. By offering these advanced circuits, CelLink aims to provide customers with affordable solutions that enhance the performance and reliability of their power-related devices.
Pyreos
Convertible Note in 2015
Pyreos Limited is a UK-based company specializing in the development of infrared sensor array products. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Edinburgh, Pyreos utilizes patented thin film pyro-electric ceramic technology to create a range of infrared sensors applicable in various fields. The company's product offerings include bare die arrays, packaged components, and custom arrays designed for motion and occupancy detection, flame detection, people counting, gas analysis, spectroscopy, and infrared camera applications. Pyreos focuses on three primary markets—food safety, gas detection, and fuel/oil condition monitoring—where its compact and high-performance sensors operate in the mid-infrared spectrum, allowing for precise identification of material molecular compositions.
Pyreos
Convertible Note in 2014
Pyreos Limited is a UK-based company specializing in the development of infrared sensor array products. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Edinburgh, Pyreos utilizes patented thin film pyro-electric ceramic technology to create a range of infrared sensors applicable in various fields. The company's product offerings include bare die arrays, packaged components, and custom arrays designed for motion and occupancy detection, flame detection, people counting, gas analysis, spectroscopy, and infrared camera applications. Pyreos focuses on three primary markets—food safety, gas detection, and fuel/oil condition monitoring—where its compact and high-performance sensors operate in the mid-infrared spectrum, allowing for precise identification of material molecular compositions.
Pyreos
Venture Round in 2013
Pyreos Limited is a UK-based company specializing in the development of infrared sensor array products. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Edinburgh, Pyreos utilizes patented thin film pyro-electric ceramic technology to create a range of infrared sensors applicable in various fields. The company's product offerings include bare die arrays, packaged components, and custom arrays designed for motion and occupancy detection, flame detection, people counting, gas analysis, spectroscopy, and infrared camera applications. Pyreos focuses on three primary markets—food safety, gas detection, and fuel/oil condition monitoring—where its compact and high-performance sensors operate in the mid-infrared spectrum, allowing for precise identification of material molecular compositions.
Pebbles Interfaces
Series B in 2013
Pebbles Interfaces is a technology company specializing in advanced motion sensors that enhance human interaction with digital devices. Their innovative sensors allow for the seamless display of physical objects within the digital realm, facilitating intuitive and natural gestures across various platforms, including smartphones, PCs, smart TVs, and even everyday surfaces like coffee tables. By embedding their minimal hardware into partner products, Pebbles aims to transform how users engage with consumer electronics, enabling interactions that feel organic and immediate. Their vision is to create a unified interface that bridges the gap between the physical and digital worlds, making it easier for individuals to interact with both real and virtual objects effortlessly.
Pyreos
Venture Round in 2012
Pyreos Limited is a UK-based company specializing in the development of infrared sensor array products. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Edinburgh, Pyreos utilizes patented thin film pyro-electric ceramic technology to create a range of infrared sensors applicable in various fields. The company's product offerings include bare die arrays, packaged components, and custom arrays designed for motion and occupancy detection, flame detection, people counting, gas analysis, spectroscopy, and infrared camera applications. Pyreos focuses on three primary markets—food safety, gas detection, and fuel/oil condition monitoring—where its compact and high-performance sensors operate in the mid-infrared spectrum, allowing for precise identification of material molecular compositions.
Torqeedo GmbH, established in 2005, is a leading manufacturer and distributor of electric boat motors. Based in Gilching, Germany, with additional offices in Crystal Lake, Illinois, the company offers a wide range of electric outboard motors, propulsion systems, and accessories for various types of boats, including kayaks, motorboats, sailboats, and commercial vessels. Torqeedo's products cater to both leisure and commercial applications, promoting sustainable and clean boating. The company operates through a network of international dealers and has sales organizations in several countries across Europe, North America, and beyond. As of 2017, Torqeedo operates as a subsidiary of DEUTZ Aktiengesellschaft.
EpiGan
Venture Round in 2011
EpiGaN is a Leuven, Belgium-based company specializing in the development of Gallium Nitride (GaN) on silicon wafers. The company focuses on providing III-nitride epitaxial materials that are designed for various commercial applications. EpiGaN's GaN materials offer higher power efficiency, which helps to reduce power losses in a range of uses, including AC drives, uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), and hybrid and electric vehicles. Through its innovative technology, EpiGaN aims to enhance the performance and efficiency of electronic systems across multiple industries.
Bosch Solar Energy
Acquisition in 2008
Bosch Solar Energy is a manufacturer of solar wafers and solar cells that specializes in crystalline silicon-based photovoltaic (PV) products, as well as thin-film modules using amorphous silicon and CIGS absorber materials. The company consisted of various divisions for silicon, wafers, solar cells, and modules, research and production facilities in Germany and France.
Telex Communications
Acquisition in 2006
Telex is a manufacturer and marketer of audio and communication products and systems for commercial, professional, and industrial customers. It also offers products for professional audio and advanced communication technologies. They provide professional communication products, including digital matrix intercoms used by broadcasters to control production communications, intercoms, headsets, and wireless.
Akustica
Acquisition in 2005
Akustica, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, specializing in the development and commercialization of complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS) microphones. Founded in 2001, the company produces single-chip digital and analog microphones designed to enhance voice-input quality across a variety of applications, including notebook personal computers, mobile phones, internet telephony, headsets, speakers, and cameras. Akustica's innovative microphone solutions cater to the growing demand for high-performance audio in voice-enabled devices, effectively supporting hearing, speaking, and sensing functionalities. As of September 30, 2009, Akustica operates as a subsidiary of Robert Bosch North America, Inc.