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Top Semiconductor Startups 2026

Private chip and semiconductor companies — AI accelerators, photonics, RISC-V, and fab tooling — ranked by total funding raised.

Known total funding for 100 of 100 ranked companies: $45.5B.

Showing top 100 matching companies · Ranked by total funding raised

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Methodology: up to 100 active companies matching this list's filters are ordered by disclosed total funding in USD. Companies whose latest round is one of: Grant, Private Equity, Debt Financing are excluded. Totals include recorded grants and other qualifying funding, not just equity. Open a company profile for its funding summary and available detail. How this data is built.

1
Rapidus

Japanese semiconductor manufacturer developing advanced 2nm chip technology.

Tokyo, Japan501–1000Semiconductors
Venture RoundTotal funding$14.5BJun 2026
2
Groq

Groq delivers fast, low cost AI inference using custom LPU (Language Processing Unit) chips and G...

Mountain View, United States201–500Artificial Intelligence, Hardware
Series ATotal funding$4.2BAug 2026
3
Tenstorrent

Designs and sells AI processors, accelerator cards, and software, licensing RISC-V IP to enterpri...

Toronto, Canada501–1000Artificial Intelligence, Hardware
Series ETotal funding$3.8BOct 2026
4
SambaNova Systems

Provides AI inference hardware and cloud platform for enterprises, using RDUs and SambaCloud to r...

Palo Alto, United States201–500Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools
Series FTotal funding$2.5BJul 2026
5
Alat

Alat is building advanced manufacturing capabilities across four strategic sectors: AI & Digital ...

Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaAdvanced Manufacturing, Semiconductors
Corporate RoundTotal funding$2.0BMay 2024
6
Etched

AI chip startup designing custom ASICs purpose-built for transformer-based artificial intelligenc...

Cupertino, United States51–200Semiconductors, Artificial Intelligence
Venture RoundTotal funding$1.6BAug 2026
7
Rebellions

South Korean AI semiconductor company designing purpose-built NPU chips for high-performance, ene...

Seongnam, South Korea201–500Semiconductors, Artificial Intelligence
Venture RoundTotal funding$923.5MMar 2026
8
SiFive

Designs and licenses RISC‑V processor core IP and platforms to semiconductor and systems companie...

San Jose, United States501–1000Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools
Series G+Total funding$765.5MApr 2026
9
Lumilens

Next-Gen Optical Transceiver Solution for photonics supply

San Jose, United States51–200Hardware, Infrastructure
Series CTotal funding$700.0MAug 2026
10
Graphcore

Semiconductor company that developed the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU), a processor architec...

Bristol, United Kingdom501–1000Semiconductors, Artificial Intelligence
Series ETotal funding$652.0MDec 2020
11
MatX

Designs high-throughput AI chips for large language models, serving AI labs and enterprises seeki...

Mountain View, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Semiconductors
Series BTotal funding$600.0MFeb 2026
12
Enflame

Chinese AI chip company developing high-performance AI accelerators and software-hardware solutio...

Shanghai, China501–1000Deep Learning, Semiconductors
Series DTotal funding$553.0MSep 2023
13
O
Olix

UK AI-chip startup building optical compute chips to rival GPU incumbents.

London, United KingdomArtificial Intelligence, Semiconductors
Series BTotal funding$532.0MAug 2026
14
Nearfield Instruments

Nearfield Instruments is a semiconductor metrology equipment company that develops process contro...

Rotterdam, Netherlands51–200Deep Tech, Semiconductors
Series DTotal funding$527.6MJun 2026
15
X-Sight Labs

Xsight Labs is a fabless semiconductor company designing programmable switches and DPUs for AI an...

Kiryat Gat, Israel201–500Artificial Intelligence, Hardware
Venture RoundTotal funding$496.0MJul 2026
16
PhysicsX

PhysicsX develops AI-native engineering software that helps industrial organizations accelerate s...

London, United Kingdom51–200Artificial Intelligence, Automotive
Series CTotal funding$484.0MJun 2026
17
Unconventional AI

Unconventional AI develops physical computing systems that use dynamical hardware and co-designed...

San Francisco, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Semiconductors
SeedTotal funding$475.0MDec 2025
18
d-Matrix

d-Matrix pioneers memory-centric AI inference compute with Corsair chips and JetStream I/O for da...

Santa Clara, United States201–500Artificial Intelligence, Semiconductors
Series CTotal funding$473.0MNov 2025
19
SemiDrive

Chinese automotive semiconductor company designing high-performance SoCs for smart cockpits, inte...

Nanjing, China201–500Semiconductors
Series CTotal funding$467.2MMay 2026
20
Fractile

Fractile builds processors that physically interleave memory and compute to deliver low-latency, ...

London, United Kingdom51–200Artificial Intelligence, Semiconductors
Series BTotal funding$464.2MMay 2026
21
XCENA

Memory-centric computing for AI infrastructure.

San Jose, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Semiconductors
Series BTotal funding$377.0MJun 2026
22
Celero Communications

Celero Communications develops coherent DSP solutions that enable high-bandwidth, low-power optic...

Irvine, United States51–200Artificial Intelligence, Infrastructure
Series CTotal funding$375.0MSep 2026
23
Axelera AI

Axelera AI builds hardware and software for efficient AI inference from edge devices to cloud sys...

Eindhoven, Netherlands201–500Semiconductors, Artificial Intelligence
Series BTotal funding$357.0MAug 2025
24
SiEngine Technology

Automotive-grade cockpit and autonomous-driving SoCs (ECARX-incubated)

Wuhan, ChinaSemiconductors
Venture RoundTotal funding$348.0MJul 2026
25
NextSilicon

NextSilicon develops intelligent compute architecture and software-defined hardware that accelera...

Tel Aviv, Israel201–500Semiconductors, Artificial Intelligence
Series BTotal funding$346.6MJun 2021