Samsung Catalyst Fund is the evergreen, multi-stage corporate venture capital arm of Samsung Electronics, based in San Jose, California, founded in 2013. It targets investments in deep-tech infrastructure and data-enabled platforms across sectors such as automotive, robotics, digital health, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, cloud infrastructure, and device-level solutions. The fund supports portfolio companies with Samsung's global brand, manufacturing and distribution capabilities, domain expertise, recruiting networks, and mentorship through Innovation Fellows, helping entrepreneurs scale with Samsung's resources. As part of Samsung Electronics, it aligns with the parent company's broader strategy to advance the data economy and strategic technology initiatives while maintaining a long-term outlook on value creation.
Vice President and Managing Director, Head of the Fund
Gil Rotenberg
Investment Principal
Ray Schuder
Senior Investment Director
Amit Shofar
Investment Director
Past deals in ASIC
Celestial AI
Series C in 2024
Celestial AI is a prominent artificial intelligence company that provides an advanced platform for users to efficiently create images, text, and presentations. Utilizing cutting-edge computer vision algorithms and natural language processing, the platform produces high-quality visual and textual content. Its intuitive design, combined with innovative features, facilitates easy content creation. Moreover, Celestial AI emphasizes intelligent data integration and prioritizes security, ensuring that users achieve impressive and reliable results.
Tenstorrent
Venture Round in 2023
Tenstorrent designs and manufactures AI hardware and software for data processing and machine learning tasks. The company develops application-specific integrated circuit processors that enable scalable deep learning, with architectures designed to be software-programmable and adaptable from battery-powered IoT devices to cloud servers. Its processors target training and inference workloads, delivering computational performance for developers and researchers in artificial intelligence. Founded in 2016, Tenstorrent is based in Toronto with an additional office in Austin, Texas.
Celestial AI
Series B in 2023
Celestial AI is a prominent artificial intelligence company that provides an advanced platform for users to efficiently create images, text, and presentations. Utilizing cutting-edge computer vision algorithms and natural language processing, the platform produces high-quality visual and textual content. Its intuitive design, combined with innovative features, facilitates easy content creation. Moreover, Celestial AI emphasizes intelligent data integration and prioritizes security, ensuring that users achieve impressive and reliable results.
Empower Semiconductor
Series C in 2021
Empower Semiconductor focuses on creating highly efficient integrated voltage regulators (VR) for System-on-Chip (SoC) designs. The company's innovative power management architecture, protected by patents, aims to enhance the cost-effectiveness, compactness, and energy efficiency of voltage regulators. This technology is applicable across a wide range of devices, from low-power mobile gadgets to high-powered servers and communication systems.
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