Top Semiconductor Startups 2026

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

As of September 2026, these 100 companies have raised $28.0B in combined funding.

Showing top 100 of 176 matching companies · Ranked by total funding raised · Data updated Sep 14, 2026

Methodology: 176 active companies matched this list's filters; the top 100 are ordered by disclosed total funding in USD. Every figure links to the company profile that cites its source. How this data is built.

26

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

Mountain View, United States51–200Artificial Intelligence, Infrastructure

Series B·$290.0M·Dec 2024

27

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

Austin, United States51–200Artificial Intelligence, Hardware

Series D·$287.0M·Dec 2025

28

Beijing Eswin Computing Technology

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

Beijing, China1001–5000Semiconductors, Artificial Intelligence

Series B·$283.0M·Jun 2020

29

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

Saratoga, United States11–50AR/VR, Artificial Intelligence

Series B·$248.7M·Sep 2025

30

Phononic Devices

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

Durham, United States201–500Clean Tech, Hardware

Series G+·$215.5M·Oct 2022

31

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

Kiryat Gat, Israel201–500Artificial Intelligence, Hardware

Series D·$196.0M·Mar 2021

32

Alif Semiconductor

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

Pleasanton, United States201–500Artificial Intelligence, Infrastructure

Series C·$185.8M·Mar 2022

33

Fabless semiconductor company developing CMOS millimeter-wave radar sensors

Shanghai, China201–500Automotive, Semiconductors

Series E·$156.6M·Mar 2026

34

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

Paris, France51–200Semiconductors, Computer Vision

Venture Round·$126.7M·Jun 2026

35

Energy, Energy Storage

Series C·$125.5M·Jul 2022

36

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

Seoul, South Korea51–200Artificial Intelligence, Semiconductors

Venture Round·$125.0M·Aug 2025

37

Biotech, Healthcare

Corporate Round·$125.0M·Jul 2012

38

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

San Diego, United States51–200Advanced Manufacturing, Semiconductors

Series C·$119.3M·Nov 2025

39

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

Austin, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Hardware

Series A·$117.2M·Jan 2026

40

EFFECT Photonics

Integrated photonic solutions for telecom and datacenter networks

51–200Mobile, Semiconductors

Series D·$114.3M·Jun 2025

41

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

Tel Aviv, Israel51–200Artificial Intelligence, Semiconductors

Series B·$114.0M·Jun 2025

42

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

Burlingame, United States51–200Artificial Intelligence, Semiconductors

Series C·$111.0M·May 2026

43

ANELLO PHOTONICS INC

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

Santa Clara, United States11–50Autonomous Vehicles, Defense Tech

Series B·$106.0M·May 2026

44

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

Santa Clara, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Hardware

Series B·$100.0M·Feb 2025

45

Innostar Semiconductor

Innostar Semiconductor develops ReRAM storage chips, computing-in-memory IP, and large-model acce...

Shanghai, ChinaArtificial Intelligence, Semiconductors

Venture Round·$100.0M·Apr 2021

46

Building America's next-generation semiconductor foundry using advanced X‑ray lithography to redu...

San Francisco, United States51–200Energy, Hardware

Seed·$100.0M·Oct 2025

47

Cognichip develops Artificial Chip Intelligence to reimagine semiconductor chip design and reduce...

Redwood City, United States51–200Artificial Intelligence, Semiconductors

Venture Round·$93.0M·Apr 2026

48

Ferroelectric Memory Company

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

Dresden, Germany51–200Semiconductors, Deep Tech

Series C·$91.8M·Nov 2025

49

Avicena develops ultra-low energy microLED optical links for chip-to-chip interconnects in HPC, A...

Sunnyvale, United States11–50Deep Tech, Artificial Intelligence

Series B·$91.2M·May 2025

50

XMOS is a fabless semiconductor company developing Generative System-on-Chip platforms integratin...

Bristol, United Kingdom51–200Hardware, Semiconductors

Series E·$91.0M·Jan 2021

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