Compute & Semiconductors

18 companies

Compute is the new oil. These companies design the chips and architectures that power everything from AI training clusters to edge devices. Physics sets the frontier now, and the race has never been more strategic.

18 companies

Deploys mobile data centers fast.

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Series A

Founders

Jonathan Runyan, Dan Wright

HQ City

San Francisco, CA

Founded

2022

Socials

Total Raised

$226M

Employees

201-1,000

Last Round Date

Jul 2025

Builds neutral-atom quantum computers.

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Series B

Founders

Benjamin Bloom, Jonathan King

HQ City

Berkeley, CA

Founded

2018

Socials

Total Raised

$90M

Employees

51-200

Last Round Date

Apr 2024

Builds fast, flexible chip fabs.

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Seed

Founders

Sam Zeloof, Jim Keller

HQ City

San Francisco, CA

Founded

2023

Socials

Total Raised

$15M

Employees

21-50

Last Round Date

Feb 2023

Cerebras Systems

Builds massive AI chips.

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Series D+

Founders

Sean Lie, Jean-Philippe Fricker, Andrew Feldman, Gary Lauterbach, Michael James

HQ City

Sunnyvale, CA

Founded

2015

Socials

Total Raised

$750M

Employees

201-1,000

Last Round Date

Oct 2025

Builds paper-like display computers.

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Series A

Founders

Anjan Katta

HQ City

San Francisco, CA

Founded

2018

Socials

Total Raised

$12M

Employees

21-50

Last Round Date

Nov 2025

Builds silicon-based AI transformers.

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Series A

Founders

Gavin Uberti, Chris Zhu

HQ City

Cupertino, CA

Founded

2022

Socials

Total Raised

$245M

Employees

21-50

Last Round Date

Jul 2025

Builds physics-based compute chips.

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Founders

Trevor McCourt, Guillaume Verdon

HQ City

Austin, TX

Founded

2022

Socials

Total Raised

$14.1M

Employees

21-50

Last Round Date

Jan 2025

Framework Computer

Builds modular personal computers.

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Series A

Founders

Nirav Patel

HQ City

San Francisco, CA

Founded

2019

Socials

Total Raised

$44M

Employees

51-200

Builds AI-powered wearables.

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Founders

Avi Schiffmann

HQ City

San Francisco, CA

Founded

2023

Delivers LPU-based AI compute.

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Series D+

Founders

Jonathan Ross

HQ City

Mountain View

Founded

2016

Socials

Total Raised

$2.2B

Employees

201-1,000

Last Round Date

Aug 2024

Looking Glass Factory

Displays holograms in 3D.

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Series B

Founders

Alex Hornstein, Shawn Frayne

HQ City

New York, NY

Founded

2014

Socials

Total Raised

$65.1M

Employees

21-50

Last Round Date

May 2025

Normal Computing

Deploys enterprise-grade generative AI.

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Founders

Matthias Tan, Faris Sbahi

HQ City

New York, NY

Founded

2022

Last Round Date

Apr 2024

Delivers AI compute solutions.

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Public

Founders

Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, Curtis Priem

HQ City

Santa Clara, CA

Founded

1993

Socials

Employees

5,001+

Last Round Date

Jan 1999

Builds photonic quantum computers.

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Series D+

Founders

Mark Thompson, Jeremy O'Brien, Terry Rudolph, Peter Shadbolt

HQ City

Palo Alto, CA

Founded

2015

Socials

Total Raised

$1.4B

Employees

201-1,000

Last Round Date

Sep 2025

Builds wearable digital readers.

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Founders

Ben Chelf, Trae Stephens

HQ City

San Francisco, CA

Founded

2021

Socials

Total Raised

$7.8M

Employees

1-20

Last Round Date

Sep 2023

Designs analog chips with AI.

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Seed

Founders

Steven Glinert

HQ City

San Francisco, CA

Founded

2024

Total Raised

$3M

Employees

1-20

Last Round Date

Sep 2025

Builds next-gen chipmaking tools.

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Series A

Founders

James Proud, Oliver Proud

HQ City

San Francisco, CA

Founded

2022

Total Raised

$100M

Last Round Date

Oct 2025

Builds open AI hardware stacks.

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Series D+

HQ City

Toronto, Canada

Founded

2016

Total Raised

$1.1B

Employees

201-1,000

Last Round Date

Dec 2024

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