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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Seed investors for Semiconductor startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
National Science Foundation | Grant, Seed | Alexandria, Virginia, United States, North America | ||
CITRIS Foundry | Grant, Seed | Berkeley, California, United States, North America | ||
Applied Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Santa Clara, California, United States, North America | ||
Brightstone Venture Capital | Crowdfunding, Early Stage Venture, Seed | Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, North America | ||
Silicon Catalyst | Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture | Santa Clara, California, United States, North America |
At SeedRound we track over 200,000 investors and over 1,000,000 people who hold key positions in these firms. We use this directory of investors to highlight top employees, LP’s and funding organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top Semiconductor Seed investors in United States. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Semiconductor Investors & Funds (United States)
National Science Foundation
America’s Seed Fund powered by NSF awards nearly $200 million annually to startups and small businesses, transforming scientific discovery into products and services with commercial and societal impact. Startups working across almost all areas of science and technology can receive up to $1.5 million in non-dilutive funds to support research and development (R&D), helping de-risk technology for commercial success. America’s Seed Fund is congressionally mandated through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The NSF is an independent federal agency with a budget of about $7.8 billion that supports fundamental research and education across all fields of science and engineering.
Stages: Grant, Seed
Location: Alexandria, Virginia, United States, North America
Industries: Advanced Materials, Biotechnology, Chemical Engineering, EdTech, Environmental Engineering, Government, Information Technology, Internet of Things, Manufacturing, Medical Device, Nanotechnology, Robotics, Semiconductor, Wireless
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CITRIS Foundry
Headquartered at UC Berkeley, the CITRIS Foundry accelerator supports entrepreneurs who are working to commercialize cutting-edge technology within their scientific field. Our founders are scientists, engineers, builders, and hackers from top-tier research universities.
Stages: Grant, Seed
Location: Berkeley, California, United States, North America
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Clean Energy, Genetics, Hardware, Incubators, Machine Learning, Semiconductor, Sensor, Software, Universities
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Applied Ventures
Applied Ventures, LLC is the venture capital fund of Applied Materials, Inc., (NASDAQ: AMAT), the global leader in nanomanufacturing technology solutions for the electronics industry with a broad portfolio of innovative equipment, service, and software products. At Applied Materials, they apply nanomanufacturing technology to improve the way people live. Applied Ventures invests in early-stage technology companies that promise to deliver high growth and exceptional returns. Their charter is to profitably invest in companies that provide a window on technologies that advance or complement Applied Materials’ core expertise. Their investments help develop technologies and markets that provide natural extensions to Applied Materials’ core business and stimulate the growth of applications for semiconductors, displays, solar PV, and related products and services.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Santa Clara, California, United States, North America
Industries: Advanced Materials, Manufacturing, Nanotechnology, Semiconductor, Venture Capital
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Brightstone Venture Capital
Brightstone Venture Capital (BVC) has a 30 year history of building successful technology and life-science companies. We love to partner with extraordinary entrepreneurs with a unique vision of how to solve a huge problem in a large and growing market, and help them “dream big” and achieve their vision.
Stages: Crowdfunding, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, North America
Industries: Augmented Reality, Biotechnology, Data Storage, Enterprise Software, FinTech, Health Diagnostics, Life Science, Medical Device, Semiconductor
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Silicon Catalyst
Silicon Catalyst is an incubator for startup companies that are developing solutions where innovation in semiconductor design and IP is required. Silicon Catalyst provides funding and in-kind services to address the current bottlenecks facing entrepreneurs, namely accessing and affording leadership design tools, fabrication and testing of semiconductor chips.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Santa Clara, California, United States, North America
Industries: Data Center, Electronics, Hardware, Mobile, Power Grid, Semiconductor, Transportation, Wireless
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Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies
The Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies (VCET) catalyzes entrepreneurs in the creation of next generation job opportunities for this generation of Vermonters. VCET curates an entrepreneur mentor network, provides incubation services and facilities, and manages a $5 million early stage seed capital venture fund. VCET is non-profit, public benefit corporation which was recently ranked #11 globally and #5 in the US by the University Business Incubator Index.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Burlington, Vermont, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, Semiconductor, Venture Capital
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Concept Ventures
[Concept Ventures](http://www.conceptvc.com/) invests in early stage companies in digital media, communications, semiconductors, software and services, and healthtech.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Santa Clara, California, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, Semiconductor, Venture Capital
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Chenel Capital
Chenel Capital is driven to push the aerospace, artificial intelligence (AI), and semiconductor fields forward through informed investments in innovative companies. As a private equity firm specializing in growth, venture, and angel stage investments, we strive to provide our investors with exceptional returns while imparting expert guidance to those companies we invest in. Chenel Capital’s patterned success is built upon our commitment to being attentive to the ever-evolving industry and investment landscape while being deeply attuned to the specific needs of our investors and investment companies. Our true alignment with the investment environment, in tandem with, the diversity of our perspectives is what gives us our edge. Chenel Capital’s team composition allows us to apply a multicultural and multidisciplinary lens to a variety of investment vehicles such as collateralized debt offerings (CDOs), special purpose vehicles (SPVs), and co-investments, as well as, overall investment strategy. We pride ourselves on being creative with how we underwrite our investments and the approach we take in developing our investment pipeline.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed, Venture
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Aerospace, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Health Care, Internet of Things, SaaS, Semiconductor, Venture Capital
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Reunited Ventures
Reunited Ventures is interested in only top entrepreneurs and artists, sharp and bold ideas, big addressable market, ground-breaking technologies with high aesthetic values. We have been offering highly competitive capital returns to our investor LPs since 2016. Reunited Ventures Fund II was completed by September, 2019. For any LP inquiries, please feel free to contact us.
Stages: Crowdfunding, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: Augmented Reality, Autonomous Vehicles, Gaming, Media and Entertainment, Music, Satellite Communication, Semiconductor, Virtual Reality
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Trans-it Capital
Trans-it Capital (TransCap) is a consulting firm founded in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2006. Leveraging our expertise and experience in international business and venture investing, we enable and accelerate our clients’ new business and corporate development activities.
Stages: Seed
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: Advanced Materials, Angel Investment, Automotive, Consulting, Internet of Things, Semiconductor
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