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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.

26
Ricursive Intelligence

Frontier AI lab developing self-improving systems that reinvent chip development and connect arti...

Palo Alto, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence, Semiconductors
Series ATotal funding$335.0MMar 2026
27
Auradine

Auradine, now Velaura AI, develops ultra-low-power compute infrastructure for cloud, edge, and ph...

Santa Clara, United States51–200Artificial Intelligence, Crypto & Web3
Series CTotal funding$314.0MApr 2025
28
Eliyan

Semiconductor IP company developing the industry's highest-performance chiplet interconnect techn...

Santa Clara, United States51–200Artificial Intelligence, Hardware
Series CTotal funding$295.0MJul 2026
29
Enfabrica

AI networking silicon and software company building high-performance SuperNIC chips and solutions...

Mountain View, United States51–200Artificial Intelligence, Infrastructure
Series BTotal funding$290.0MDec 2024
30
Mythic

Mythic is ushering in a new era of accelerated computing with its Analog Processing Units (APUs).

Austin, United States51–200Artificial Intelligence, Hardware
Series DTotal funding$287.0MDec 2025
31
Beijing Eswin Computing Technology

ESWIN Computing designs RISC-V chips, chipsets, circuit boards, and essential software that enabl...

Beijing, China1001–5000Semiconductors, Artificial Intelligence
Series BTotal funding$283.0MJun 2020
32
Mojo Vision

Mojo Vision is the Invisible Computing Company, dedicated to developing augmented reality product...

Saratoga, United States11–50AR/VR, Artificial Intelligence
Series BTotal funding$248.7MSep 2025
33
Phononic Devices

Global leader in solid-state thermoelectric cooling and refrigeration devices for healthcare, foo...

Durham, United States201–500Clean Tech, Hardware
Series G+Total funding$215.5MOct 2022
34
Silicon Box

Silicon Box manufactures chiplets and collaborates with leading technology companies to deliver a...

Singapore, Singapore1001–5000Artificial Intelligence, Hardware
Series BTotal funding$200.0MJan 2024
35
Alif Semiconductor

Semiconductor company developing next-generation Ensemble family of microcontrollers and fusion p...

Pleasanton, United States201–500Artificial Intelligence, Infrastructure
Series CTotal funding$185.8MMar 2022
36
Calterah

Calterah develops CMOS millimeter-wave radar chips for automotive driving assistance, industrial ...

Shanghai, China201–500Automotive, Semiconductors
Series ETotal funding$156.6MMar 2026
37
nEye

nEye develops chip-based optical circuit switching for next-generation AI data center interconnec...

Santa Clara, United States11–50Hardware, Infrastructure
Series CTotal funding$152.5MApr 2026
38
Prophesee

Prophesee is a Paris-based neuromorphic vision company that develops event-based camera sensors a...

Paris, France51–200Semiconductors, Computer Vision
Venture RoundTotal funding$126.7MJun 2026
39
FlexGen

FlexGen designs and integrates battery energy storage solutions, combining energy management soft...

Durham, United States201–500Energy, Energy Storage
Series CTotal funding$125.5MJul 2022
40
FuriosaAI

FuriosaAI designs high-efficiency AI accelerator chips that run advanced models for data-center i...

Seoul, South Korea51–200Artificial Intelligence, Semiconductors
Venture RoundTotal funding$125.0MAug 2025
41
NantWorks
Biotech, Healthcare
Corporate RoundTotal funding$125.0MJul 2012
42
Fabric8Labs

Fabric8Labs is revolutionizing manufacturing with Electrochemical Additive Manufacturing, produci...

San Diego, United States51–200Advanced Manufacturing, Semiconductors
Series CTotal funding$119.3MNov 2025
43
Neurophos

Develops optical processing units (OPUs) that are 100x faster and more energy-efficient than GPUs...

Austin, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Hardware
Series ATotal funding$117.2MJan 2026
44
EFFECT Photonics

Integrated photonic solutions for telecom and datacenter networks

Netherlands51–200Mobile, Semiconductors
Series DTotal funding$114.3MJun 2025
45
Speedata

Speedata creates the Analytics Processing Unit, a processor purpose-built for Apache Spark SQL, b...

Tel Aviv, Israel51–200Artificial Intelligence, Semiconductors
Series BTotal funding$114.0MJun 2025
46
Ferroelectric Memory Company

European fabless semiconductor company developing ferroelectric-based hybrid memory (DRAM+ and Ca...

Dresden, Germany51–200Semiconductors, Deep Tech
Series CTotal funding$111.8MNov 2025
47
Quadric.io

Quadric is a semiconductor IP company that licenses programmable Chimera general-purpose neural p...

Burlingame, United States51–200Artificial Intelligence, Semiconductors
Series CTotal funding$111.0MMay 2026
48
SemiFive

SemiFive designs custom silicon and SoC solutions for semiconductor customers, drawing on decades...

Seoul, South KoreaDesign Tools, Semiconductors
Series BTotal funding$109.0MFeb 2022
49
ANELLO PHOTONICS INC

ANELLO Photonics builds silicon photonic optical gyroscopes and inertial navigation systems that ...

Santa Clara, United States11–50Autonomous Vehicles, Defense Tech
Series BTotal funding$106.0MMay 2026
50
EnCharge AI

EnCharge AI designs analog in-memory-computing chips and hardware-software systems that deliver h...

Santa Clara, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Hardware
Series BTotal funding$100.0MFeb 2025