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109 semiconductor startups in Europe have raised money in rounds we track. These are the 50 that have raised the most, $7.6B between them, with the United Kingdom the most common home.
Fractile is a UK-based technology company and semiconductor startup founded in 2022 by Dr.
Founded 2022London, United Kingdom$960Mlast round Oct 2026CuspAI is an innovative artificial intelligence company based in Cambridge, United Kingdom, with additional teams in Amsterdam and Berlin.
Founded 2024Cambridge, United Kingdom$950Mlast round Jul 2026Graphcore develops a microprocessor designed for AI and machine learning applications.
Founded 2016Bristol, United Kingdom$835Mlast round May 2026OLIX is an AI company focused on developing advanced hardware solutions for AI inference workloads.
Founded 2024London, United Kingdom$532Mlast round Aug 2026Nearfield Instruments (NFI) is a semiconductor metrology equipment company based in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Founded 2016Rotterdam, Netherlands$527Mlast round Jun 2026NorSun is a Norwegian solar energy company that specializes in manufacturing high-performance mono-crystalline silicon ingots and wafers for the global solar en
Founded 2005Oslo, Norway$304Mlast round Mar 2009Axelera AI is a European AI semiconductor company based in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
Founded 2021Eindhoven, Netherlands$250Mlast round Feb 2026Lime Microsystems is a UK-based fabless semiconductor company founded in 2005, specializing in field-programmable RF transceivers and software-defined radio sil
Founded 2005Guildford, United Kingdom$234Mlast round Jun 2023Euclyd is a European deep-tech startup founded in 2024 and based in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Founded 2024Eindhoven, Netherlands$231Mlast round Sept 2026Quantum Motion is a quantum computing company focused on building full-stack, utility-scale quantum computers using 300mm CMOS silicon technology.
Founded 2017London, United Kingdom$211Mlast round May 2026QuantWare is a quantum computing hardware company based in Delft, Netherlands.
Founded 2020Delft, Netherlands$209Mlast round May 2026Quantum Diamonds provides described nitrogen-vacancy (NV) diamonds for quantum sensing to industrial and academic customers.
Founded 2022Munich, Germany$201Mlast round Jul 2026Salience Labs is a deep-tech semiconductor company based in Oxford, United Kingdom, specializing in all-optical silicon photonic solutions.
Founded 2020Oxford, United Kingdom$169Mlast round Oct 2026POLYN Technology is a fabless semiconductor startup founded in 2019, specializing in Neuromorphic Analog Signal Processing (NASP) technology and Tiny AI chips.
Founded 2019Bristol, United Kingdom$159Mlast round May 2022Quobly is a French quantum computing company founded in 2022 in Grenoble, known for its innovative approach to quantum technology.
Founded 2022Grenoble, France$151Mlast round Jun 2026iPRONICS is a Spanish deep-tech semiconductor company founded in 2019 as a spinoff from Universitat Politècnica de València.
Founded 2019Valencia, Spain$137Mlast round Sept 2026picoChip offers signal processing products for wireless telecommunications systems.
Founded 2000Bath, United Kingdom$121Mlast round Nov 2010SiPearl is a European fabless semiconductor company founded in June 2019 and based in Maisons-Laffitte, France.
Founded 2019Maisons-Laffitte, France$119Mlast round Jul 2025GLO is focused on the development and commercialization of advanced LED products using nanotechnology.
Founded 2003Sunnyvale, Sweden$78Mlast round Mar 2014Space Forge make super materials in space that cannot be made on earth.
Founded 2018Cardiff, United Kingdom$74Mlast round Jun 2026SCINTIL Photonics is a fabless semiconductor company based in Grenoble, France, founded in 2018 by Sylvie Menezo.
Founded 2018Grenoble, France$62Mlast round Sept 2025Infinitesima is a UK-based company founded in 2001, specializing in advanced atomic-scale 3D metrology solutions for the semiconductor industry.
Founded 2001Abingdon, United Kingdom$59Mlast round Jul 2026Your Energy is a UK based company specialising in onshore wind development.
Founded 2001Richmond, United Kingdom$53Mlast round Jul 2008Canatu is a deep technology company based in Vantaa, Finland, specializing in advanced carbon nanotube (CNT) technology.
Founded 2004Vantaa, Finland$48Mlast round Oct 2022Intrinsic Semiconductor Technologies is established to developed silicon-oxide based RRAM technologies.
Founded 2017London, United Kingdom$47Mlast round Jul 2026AccelerComm Ltd is a semiconductor intellectual property (IP) company focused on advanced physical layer solutions for telecommunications, particularly in 5G Ra
Founded 2016Southampton, United Kingdom$42Mlast round May 2025Lace Lithography is a Norwegian semiconductor technology startup founded in July 2023 and based in Bergen, Norway, with an additional office in Barcelona, Spain.
Founded 2023Bergen, Norway$40Mlast round Mar 2026Agile Analog is a semiconductor IP company based in Cambridge, United Kingdom, with additional offices in San Jose, USA, and Shanghai, China.
Founded 2017Cambridge, United Kingdom$36Mlast round Sept 2025Dukosi is bringing new technology to market drawing on its extensive experience in battery systems
Founded 2003Edinburgh, United Kingdom$35Mlast round Feb 2026Focal Energy is a renewable energy investment and project management company based in New Delhi, India.
Founded 2008Netherlands$35Mlast round Aug 2008Forefront RF is a fabless semiconductor company based in Cambridge, United Kingdom, founded in 2020 by Dr.
Founded 2020Cambridge, United Kingdom$33Mlast round Nov 2024Groove Quantum is a quantum hardware company based in Delft, Netherlands, founded in 2024 as a spinout from QuTech at TU Delft.
Founded 2024Delft, Netherlands$32Mlast round Apr 2026GreenPeak Technologies is market leader in RF radio communication chips for Smart Home applications and the Internet of Things.
Founded 2004Utrecht, Netherlands$31Mlast round Oct 2009Gigle Semiconductor develops system-on-chip integrated circuits for home networking applications.
Founded 2005Spain$31Mlast round Nov 2007Silex Microsystems AB is the world's largest pure-play Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) foundry, established in 2000 by PhDs from Sweden's Chalmers Unive
Founded 2000Viksjoe, Sweden$31Mlast round Jul 2008Wind Energy Direct, also known as WED Renewables in the UK, is an Irish renewable energy development company founded in 2006 and headquartered in Limerick, Ireland.
Founded 2006Limerick, Ireland$29Mlast round Apr 2011TeraView develops terahertz instruments which can generate, detect and manipulate radiation to characterize a wide range of materials.
Founded 2001Cambridge, United Kingdom$26Mlast round Dec 2024We are pioneering the use of semiconductor technology for next-generation neural implants.
Founded 2022London, United Kingdom$26Mlast round Oct 2026MICLEDI microdisplays is a Belgium-based fabless semiconductor design company founded in 2019 as a spin-off from IMEC.
Founded 2019Leuven, Belgium$25Mlast round Mar 2024EFFECT Photonics is an independent photonic semiconductor company based in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, founded in 2010.
Founded 2010Eindhoven, Netherlands$24Mlast round Jul 2025Invisix is a semiconductor monitoring company that provides next-generation measurement devices for semiconductor manufacturing.
Founded -Eindhoven, Netherlands$24Mlast round Jun 2026Qualinx is a pioneer in Digital-RF technology developing an ultra-low power single chip solution for GNSS and IoT radios
Founded 2015Delft, Netherlands$23Mlast round Jan 2026Limejump is a Technology-Driven Utility: harnessing the power of big data to positively disrupt and transform today’s energy market.
Founded 2013London, United Kingdom$21Mlast round Oct 2021NcodiN is a Paris-based deep-tech startup focused on optical interposer technology that incorporates integrated nanolasers.
Founded 2023Palaiseau, France$18Mlast round Nov 2025Spacetek Technology AG is a Swiss deep-tech company founded in 2018, based in Gümligen, Bern.
Founded 2018Muri bei Bern, Switzerland$18Mlast round Nov 2025OneSpin Solutions is a provider of certified IC integrity verification solutions for building correct, safe, secure and integrated circuits.
Founded 2005Munich, Germany$18Mlast round May 2012Hummink is a Paris-based deep-tech company founded in 2020, specializing in microfabrication technology.
Founded 2020Paris, France$17Mlast round Nov 2025Companies whose funding rounds we classed as this sector, ranked by the total they have raised in rounds we hold. Nobody pays to be on a list.
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