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Silicon Catalyst
Accelerator
Silicon Catalyst runs a 24-month accelerator program for early-stage semiconductor hardware startups, providing a curriculum, partner guidance and access to in-kind design and fabrication services. It also operates internationally through subsidiaries in the UK, EU, Israel, Japan, Australia and Malaysia, and connects portfolio companies with strategic partners and investors.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing
In its own wordssemiconductorshardwarephotonicsmemssensorsquantum
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Or find every investor that fitsSilicon Catalyst lists 58 checked portfolio companies on its own site. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (32%), Industrial & Manufacturing (23%) and Healthcare & Biotech (10%). 58% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Silicon Catalyst Ventures, Luminate and Atlantic.
No funding round on record names Silicon Catalyst yet, so the figures come from its portfolio page.
Round figures show recent activity, not Silicon Catalyst's whole history. Rounds on record name 0 companies; its own site lists 58. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 32% | 18% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 23% | 7% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 10% | 15% |
| Space & Defense | 9% | 3% |
| Cybersecurity | 9% | 4% |
| Consumer | 7% | 3% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 6% | 1% |
| Enterprise Software | 2% | 8% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Silicon Catalyst Ventures | 21 |
| Luminate | 3 |
| Atlantic | 2 |
| British Business Bank | 2 |
| Capitoria | 2 |
| Constructor Capital | 2 |
| Deeptech Labs | 2 |
| Duke Capital Partners | 2 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 87th | 58 companies |
| Recent activity | 46th | 0 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 56th | 32% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 93th | 9 countries |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers58100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Silicon Catalyst Ventures
Compare Silicon Catalyst head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Portfolio
58 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ainekko builds composable silicon for edge AI inference | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides electrical characterization of ultrathin layers | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Applied Brain Research develops and provides edge AI solutions with state space models for various applications such as speech-to-text and language translation. | AI & Machine LearningRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| Ayar Labs develops and manufactures co-packaged optics for hyperscale AI infrastructure | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| The company develops and manufactures 60 GHz wireless transceivers and phased array antenna technology | Industrial & ManufacturingConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| The company develops and manufactures electromagnetic interference absorption solutions using metamaterials and carbon nanomaterials. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Brain-CA Technologies has built a new architecture chip that delivers AI using a fraction of the energy | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Chevin Technology delivers high performance, configurable Ethernet IP Cores for Altera and AMD Xilinx FPGAs | CybersecurityIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Chicago UpDown provides computing solutions for sparse, irregular, and graph applications | Industrial & ManufacturingIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Diamond Quanta commercializes an engineered-diamond interface platform to improve performance and enable practical manufacturability and integration within existing industrial ecosystems. | Industrial & ManufacturingConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Dover Microsystems develops CoreGuard technology to prevent the exploitation of software flaws in AI/ML and other software systems | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Edgewater Wireless develops and provides Wi-Fi spectrum slicing technology and silicon solutions | Enterprise SoftwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Eridan Communications develops and provides digital radio units and solutions for wireless networks, particularly for private 5G and AI applications. | Healthcare & BiotechIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Espre Technologies develops microchip and sensor solutions for 5G security, connectivity, and scale | Industrial & ManufacturingCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Exokēryx develops technology for isolating extracellular vesicles (EVs) for research purposes. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Geegah develops and produces ultrasonic imaging technology for imaging at the micro and nano scale | Healthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
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| HEPT Lab develops cognitive photonic 3D sensors that combine camera simplicity and cost with multi-modal LiDAR precision to power Physical AI and autonomous systems | AI & Machine LearningRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| Jmem Tek operates within the upstream semiconductor industry and specializes in Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) solutions for quantum-resilient cybersecurity | FintechCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Lelantos develops gas sensors using a CMOS resonator that turns gas into data. | Industrial & ManufacturingHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- siliconcatalyst.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Companies checked
- 58
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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