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13 semiconductors startups in Santa Clara have raised money in rounds we track. These are the 13 that have raised the most, $1.7B between them.
d-Matrix is a semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California, founded in 2019.
Founded 2019Santa Clara, United States$275Mlast round Nov 2025Rivos is a high-performance RISC-V system startup targeting integrated system solutions for enterprises.
Founded 2021Santa Clara, United States$250Mlast round Aug 2025Celestial AI is a semiconductor and AI infrastructure company specializing in optical interconnect technology for data centers and AI computing systems.
Founded 2020Santa Clara, United States$250Mlast round Mar 2025Eliyan manufactures semiconductor interconnects to accelerate chiplet-based systems.
Founded 2021Santa Clara, United States$195Mlast round Jul 2026Achronix offers high-density and high-performance application-targeted FPGAs for communication applications.
Founded 2004Santa Clara, United States$136Mlast round Apr 2013ChipAgents, developed by Alpha Design AI, is an innovative AI agent platform focused on semiconductor design and verification.
Founded 2024Santa Clara, United States$134Mlast round Jul 2026Zenverge is a fabless semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California, founded in 2006.
Founded 2006Santa Clara, United States$118Mlast round Dec 2013Velaura AI is a Silicon Valley-based company specializing in AI compute infrastructure.
Founded -Santa Clara, United States$110Mlast round Aug 2026EnCharge AI is a semiconductor and AI systems company based in Santa Clara, California, founded in 2022.
Founded 2022Santa Clara, United States$100Mlast round Feb 2025We are nEye.ai, an optical switch startup founded in 2020 to revolutionize the future of data centers.
Founded 2020Santa Clara, United States$80Mlast round Apr 2026Lemurian Labs is an artificial intelligence and semiconductor company based in Menlo Park, California, with additional locations in Toronto and Santa Clara.
Founded 2018Santa Clara, United States$37Mlast round Dec 2025Nangate was an electronic design automation (EDA) company based in Silicon Valley, specializing in standard cell library design and optimization for semiconduct
Founded 2004Santa Clara, United States$35Mlast round Jun 2008Brion Technologies is a division of ASML and an industry leader in computational lithography for integrated circuits.
Founded 2002Santa Clara, United States$19Mlast round May 2004Companies whose funding rounds we classed in this sector, ranked by the total they have raised in rounds we hold. Nobody pays to be on a list.
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GSemiconductors startups that raised in 2026103 companies · $25B in 2026
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DAI startups in Santa Clara55 companies · $5.5B
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HIT Services startups in Santa Clara32 companies · $1.4B
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