Hardware & Semiconductors hub: 82 startups and 10 funds matched in our directory. Search the full startup corpus from /startups.
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Shortlist companies and funds tagged Hardware & Semiconductors in our directory. This hub is a sector cut, not a complete market census. Search every startup from /startups or open the investor list.

Startups in this sector

Showing 12 of 82 matched profiles.

  • Eridu

    AI networking startup building interconnect for million-GPU cluster scale.

  • Mach Industries

    Vertically integrated defense manufacturing — unmanned systems, propulsion, energetics, and Forge Huntington factory.

  • iPronics

    Silicon-photonics optical circuit switches for AI data-center clusters — $125M Series B with Nvidia as a participant, no valuation.

  • Ultrahuman

    Smart rings and health platform evolving from trackers into on-finger computers.

  • Lyte

    Custom sensing silicon and multimodal perception stack for robots and physical AI.

  • Frontier Computing

    Grows lab-cultured neural tissue as a machine-learning substrate — wetware, not another GPU neocloud.

  • Sonic Fire Tech

    Infrasound / acoustic fire suppression that aims to extinguish flames in seconds without water or chemical residue.

  • Groq

    AI inference neocloud operating NVIDIA-architecture clusters after exiting the pure LPU-chip challenger path.

  • Etched

    Rack-scale custom inference clusters with silicon for prefill and decode, not a GPU neocloud.

  • Point2 Technology

    RF interconnect (e-Tube Active RF Cables) for AI rack-scale fabrics — a third path versus copper and optics.

  • Lumilens

    Optical interconnect platform connecting AI GPUs at hyperscaler scale.

  • Source Foundry

    Stealth semiconductor manufacturing equipment startup targeting lithography bottlenecks for AI chips.

Investors in this sector

Showing 10 of 10 matched funds.

  • Cantos

    San Francisco–based early-stage firm founded in 2021, investing at the intersection of software, hardware, and wetware. Cantos closed Fund IV at $70M in 2026, backing defense, climate, and deep-tech founders at pre-seed and seed.

  • Chattanooga Renaissance Fund

    Chattanooga angel capital fund investing in seed and early-stage Southeast companies — including lasting local HQs such as Branch Technology and Variable. CRF I/II portfolio spans software, advanced manufacturing, and consumer brands rooted in Gig City.

  • Cottonwood Technology Fund

    Southwest deep-tech venture firm (founded 2010) investing in patent-based hard science at pre-seed and seed — photonics, advanced materials, nanotechnology, robotics, medical technology, and climate hardware. Offices in Santa Fe, Denver, and the Netherlands; Fund IV first close March 2025 targeting $80M.

  • Energy Transition Ventures

    Houston early-stage VC founded in 2020 by Craig Lawrence and Neal Dikeman — positioned as Texas’s first fund exclusively dedicated to energy-transition technologies. Invests Seed–Series B (selective later) across distributed energy, electrification, mobility, resource efficiency, and enabling software. First fund targeted ~$75M with GS Futures/GS Energy as early anchors (2021 launch).

  • HAX (Newark)

    SoftBank-backed hardware / hard-tech accelerator historically operating a U.S. program presence in Newark, New Jersey. Helps deep-tech and hardware founders from prototype through early institutional rounds. Program details at hax.co.

  • Innovation Works

    Pittsburgh nonprofit venture development organization and early-stage investor serving Southwestern Pennsylvania as the Ben Franklin Technology Partners regional partner. Provides seed capital plus mentoring and resources for software, hardware, robotics, and life-sciences startups. HQ: Nova Tower 2, Two Allegheny Center, Suite 100, Pittsburgh, PA 15212. Public materials cite ~$93M invested across hundreds of companies since the late-1990s seed-fund era.

  • Luminate NY

    Rochester optics, photonics, and imaging accelerator/fund program (NextCorps) helping startups commercialize light-enabled technologies. Flagship Upstate NY deep-tech on-ramp tied to Rochester’s optics cluster.

  • Micron Ventures

    Corporate venture arm of Boise-headquartered Micron Technology. Runs a $300M program investing in early-stage deep tech founders building sustainable compute infrastructure and advanced AI/ML solutions, with strategic support tied to Micron’s semiconductor and memory ecosystem.

  • Mountain State Capital

    Early-stage venture firm investing in software, hardware/services, and life-sciences companies across the greater Appalachian region. Offices in Pittsburgh, PA (100 S. Commons, Suite 102) and Morgantown, WV. Co-founded by Mike Green and Matt Harbaugh (Harbaugh formerly CIO at Innovation Works). Targets large seed rounds (~$1–5M company raises) with typical initial checks of $200K–$500K per firm materials.

  • Roadrunner Venture Studios

    Albuquerque deep-tech venture studio that co-founds and invests in hard-science companies (advanced energy, robotics, precision manufacturing, quantum) with national-lab adjacency. Selected to lead New Mexico’s $25M quantum commercialization initiative.