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Schneider Electric

SoftBank

Eta Compute

Fungible

HiDeep

Innovium

Katana Graph

Komprise

LightBits

Nuvia

Prosimo

Proteantecs

SambaNova Systems

VDOO

Vayyar Imaging

CNEX Labs

Credo

Dustphotonics

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AI / Machine Learning

Data Center

Data Infrastructure

Semiconductors

Innovium is a semiconductor company driving efficient resource sharing and freeing data flow in hyperscale networks. The team is proven in delivering market-leading products bringing billions in revenues. Innovium's Telanyx Ethernet Switch Silicon brings industry leading analytics, efficiency and programmability. 

Why we backed Innovium?

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Innovium is a leading provider of high performance, innovative switching silicon solutions and its products have been selected and validated by market-leaders.

High performance switch silicon

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NetSpeed Systems provides scalable Network-on-Chip (NoC) IPs to System-on-chip (SoC) designers for applications from mobile to high-performance computing and networking. NetSpeed’s configurable and synthesizable offerings will help Intel develop new SoCs more efficiently with an evolving set of IP. 

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NetSpeed Systems

NOD is a Human Computer Interaction (HCI) focused company specializing in Spatial Input. NOD’s Sensor Fusion platform fuses data from multiple sensors for immediate, precision motion tracking and natural, gesture-based navigation. Far reaching applications include drones, smart homes, and virtual reality.

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WekaIO has built the world’s fastest parallel file system on a new architecture optimized for NVMe-flash and hybrid cloud, and can meet the demands of modern workloads with the most I/O-intensive and extreme technical computing requirements. Weka’s file system, WekaFS, is designed to provide extreme performance at any scale, and is ideal for all I/O intensive workloads including machine learning, GPU acceleration, genomics, life sciences, financial analytics, log management and technical compute.  

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Altair Semiconductor develops high performance, single-mode LTE chipsets, with a range of reference hardware products, baseband processors, and RF transceivers. This portfolio covers broad cellular 4G market needs, from supercharged video-centric applications to ultra-low power, low cost IoT, and M2M.

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Altair’s portfolio covers the complete spectrum of cellular 4G market needs, from supercharged video-centric applications all the way to ultra-low power, low cost IoT and M2M.

Single-Mode LTE Chipsets

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Altair Semiconductor

Annapurna is a fabless semiconductor company serving the high performance Embedded and Data Center/cloud markets with a Platform-on-Chip approach. Annapurna optimizes cloud infrastructure performance and cost by moving the hypervisor and networking stack to a purpose-built hardware accelerator (ASIC).

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Annapurna Labs enabled the launch of blazing fast AWS virtual machines by allowing the Intel Xen hypervisor to be be replaced with a highly optimized KVM hypervisor tightly coupled with Annapurna's ASICs.

ASICs for Virtualization

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Annapurna Labs

Aquantia Corp. develops integrated, high-speed communication circuits for Ethernet connectivity, including products for cloud data centers, client connectivity and carrier access. Aquantia serves integrated circuit suppliers and original equipment/design manufacturers through worldwide direct sales. 

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Aquantia

Aura Semiconductors is a fabless IC design company providing high performance products in IoT radios, enterprise timing and portable audio markets. Aura's IoT radios and amplifiers provide superior RF performance and fidelity with ultra-low power consumption at less than half of the board area footprint.

Why we backed Aura Semiconductors?

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Aura Semiconductor

Timing ICs & Low Power RF designs (Bluetooth for IoT radios)

Berkeley Lights is a digital cell biology company working to accelerate the discovery, development, and delivery of cell-based products. Developed platforms automate the manipulation, analysis and selection of individual cells to empower engineering of personalized therapies and antibody discovery.

Why we backed Berkeley Lights?

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Berkeley Lights completed its IPO in 2020 and has established market leadership in digital cell biology.

Digital Cell Biology

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Berkeley Lights

CNEX is a semiconductor company developing revolutionary NVMe and Open-Channel SSD controller ASICs that deliver high-performing, low and predictable latency, scalability, and flexibility for software-defined-storage. The company has partnered with leading solid-state storage manufacturers, and data center and systems customers. CNEX SSD controllers deliver high-performance with low and predictable latency, and provide flexibility for software-defined-storage with host-based FTL, and Ethernet I/O for storage fabric scalability.

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CNEX LABS

NVMe and Open-Channel SSD controller ASICs

Credo provides semiconductor solutions for the data center, enterprise networking, and high-performance computing markets. Their Serializer-Deserializer (SerDes) technology delivers the scalability and signal integrity for platforms requiring single-lane 25G, 50G, and 100G connectivity. 

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High-performance Semi for data center connectivity

Eta Compute is a semiconductor company focused on SoCs that bring machine intelligence to energy-constrained systems interconnected wirelessly. Energy efficient ASICs and novel neural network AI software address applications at the edge for Speech Recognition, Keyword Spotting, PPG applications, etc.

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Habana Labs is an AI Processor company building ground-up platforms optimized for training deep neural networks and for inference deployment in production environments. Habana is unlocking the true potential of AI with orders of magnitude gains in processing performance, scalability, cost and efficiency.

Why we backed Habana Labs?

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100% AI. Processors purpose-built to unlock performance.

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Unlocking the true potential of AI with solutions offering orders of magnitude improvements in processing performance, scalability, power consumption and cost.

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Habana Labs was acquired by Intel for ≈$2B to advance Intel's AI strategy with a high-performance training processor family and a standards-based programming environment to address evolving AI workload

AI and deep learning processor for cloud

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Habana Labs

Komprise builds software focused on intelligent data management. Their platform adds virtual data lake capability with a zero lock-in, zero-interference, storage agnostic software solution. Their automation software adapts and scales to the customer’s environment, eliminating the cost, complexity and disruption of legacy data management 

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LightBits builds hardware and software addressing the need for disaggregation in cloud-scale/hyperscale data centers. Their alternative solutions for disaggregation eliminate the need to change network infrastructure or affect data center clients. Lightbits' innovative NVMe/TCP solution provides up to 50% reduction in tail latency.

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Lightbits Labs

Lion is a semiconductor company developing battery management ICs using Switched-Capacitor technologies, enabling world-best efficiencies, lower heat dissipation, ultra-fast charging and smaller form factors. Lion has also developed the world's smallest, single-chip PMIC solution not requiring any discrete inductors.

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Lion Semiconductor

Localize.city is a real estate marketplace designed for everyone. Their AI-based “Insight Engine” analyzes thousands of datasets, uncovering critical information about every home in the market: the impact of future construction, pricing guidance, the amount of sunlight a home receives, and more.

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MetaSwitch is a network and cloud-native communications software company. This software powers the voice, data, and unified communications services of fixed, mobile, and converged operators worldwide, while also acting as the foundation of building the cloud-based service platforms of the future.

Why we backed Metaswitch Networks?

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MetaSwitch

Communications Software for Large Networks

ProteanTecs is revolutionizing electronics reliability by tracking health and performance from within. ProteanTecs has developed a cloud-based platform, which combines data created in chip-embedded agents, with machine learning, to predict faults before they become failures.



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ProteanTecs

Cloud based platform that monitors ICs biometrics

Quantenna is the global leader and innovator of high-performance Wi-Fi solutions. The company perfects Wi-Fi by establishing benchmarks for speed, range, efficiency, and reliability. Quantenna takes a multidimensional approach, from silicon and system to software, to provide total Wi-Fi solutions. 


Why we backed Quantenna?

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RF Pixels, Inc. is developing beamforming technologies to enable the delivery of higher-rate 5G broadband at gigabits per second over millimeter wave spectrum. The technology mitigates attenuation issues of mmWave spectrum through beamforming and electronically controlling an array of radios to focus energy only where it's useful.

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RF Pixels

SambaNova is a full-stack AI platform company building advanced integrated semiconductor and software platforms to run AI applications from the datacenter to the edge. Its platform bridges the gap between the demands of ML applications and the capabilities of existing processing platforms.

Why we backed SambaNova Systems?

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Tagore is fabless semiconductor company founded in January 2011 to pioneer GaN semiconductor processes. The company's proprietary technologies significantly reduce complexity, size and power consumption of wireless systems and other applications and address key challenges in Power Management, Charging, Cellular Infrastructure, Land Mobile and Military Radios. Tagore's products include GaN RF Switches, RF Power Transistors, and GaN ICs and GaN FETs for power management applications.

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Tagore Technology

Vayyar Imaging is a leader in 4D radar imaging technology, providing advanced intelligent sensors to the automotive, home, industrial, retail, and medical industries. These sensors can see through walls, objects, and human tissue, and can track and map in real-time.

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VeriSilicon is a Silicon Platform as a Service (SiPaaS) company providing world class System on a Chip (SoC) and System in a Package (SiP) solutions, and is a leading IP provider for markets including mobile, datacenters, IoT, automotive, industrial, and medical electronics.


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VeriSilicon went public in 2020. It is ranked 1st in mainland China and 7th worldwide for IP license revenue.

Silicon Platform as a Service

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Fungible is a hardware+software company creating technologies to address data-centric infrastructure challenges brought by the shift to disaggregated storage. Fungible's DPU enables disaggregated storage architecture and mitigates the limitations of direct-attached storage with modern computer workloads.

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Data Storage SoCs enabling disaggregated storage

VDOO is an end-to-end IoT security platform company positioning itself as a Security Authority (SA). The company’s platform analyses IoT devices and identifies security measures to enable cyber-security implementation, device certification and smooth pre-release implementation for IoT manufacturers.

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HiDeep provides complete UI/UX solutions with sensor hardware, chips and software. Focused on touch-based interface, HiDeep has emerged as a premium 2D/3D solution provider in the Android market. Platforms include a world first 3D Force Sensing Technology as well as proven passive stylus pen technology.

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Man Machine Interface sensor hardware, chips and software

Alif Semiconductor is a semiconductor company that is developing a line of highly integrated processor solutions for a range of connected, secure, low power and high-performance edge solutions across the Industrial, Medical, Automotive and consumer applications.

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Alif Semiconductor

DustPhotonics designs and builds high-speed optical transceivers for Data Centers, High Performance Computing and Enterprise applications. Their AuraDP™ solves the traditional problems of optical transceivers by optimizing optical coupling with passive fiber alignment in high volume manufacturing. 


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Katana Graph develops performance graph databases. The company's vision is to unify graph computing with querying, analytics, and pattern mining on the same graph substrate exploiting disruptive technologies in computing and storage. The platform targets scale-out, performance and programmability.





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NuVia is a semiconductor company that is developing next-generation server CPU cores and corresponding processors to deliver industry best-in-class performance across performance, energy efficiency, scaling, cost of ownership, and integration. The company is leveraging the learnings of mobile technology and process advancements in the server space to develop its products.

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Server chips for cloud/datacenter applications

Prosimo is a network security company that has developed a platform for multi-cloud environments where excessive network intelligence is a hinderance. It serves as a secure app fabric and is based on zero-trust access and designed for optimized connectivity, over any network and location.

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DataChat is an AI/ML-led data analytics platform that enables enteprise users to perform analytics tasks and derive meaningful insights from data on the fly in natural language. DataChat's users can naturally express a sequence of complex analysis tasks in natural language and conduct sophisticated analysis at the speed of human thought.

Reshaping the frontiers of deep-technology

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Transforming potential into brilliance.