According to 13 integrated circuit design companies that we selected for venture capital financing, the total financing amount is about 750 million US dollars, of which Horizon alone accounts for 600 million US dollars. In terms of countries, there are 4 in the United States, 3 in China, 3 in Israel, and Canada, France and Australia 1. The technologies involved include AI reasoning, Internet of Things sensors, edge computing, integration of storage and computing, wireless communication, analog IC, biosensor, organic light-emitting diode display and so on. The application fields involve ADAS/ autonomous driving, data center computing, edge devices, medical pharmacies, display screens, smart cities and so on.
Let's introduce the technology, products and financing of each company one by one.
Willott
WIliot is a passive SoC chip design company for the Internet of Things application market, which adopts Nava Nano? tile
Nano? Watt computing technology collects the energy of wireless signal transmission in the surrounding environment to drive Bluetooth chip, which does not need battery power supply and can embed tiny tags. It is suitable for applications such as clothing, medicine, retail goods, logistics and warehousing, and can replace traditional RFID.
WIliot's battery-free Bluetooth chip integrates Bluetooth wireless module, Arm Cortex M0+ kernel, sensor and security components, and can collect the radio frequency energy below -30 dBm nearby to power itself, thus wirelessly transmitting data such as surrounding environment and user information to the cloud.
WIliot has a research and development team in Israel and a business and operation team in San Diego, California, USA. The company has accumulated financing of 49 million US dollars, and its valuation exceeds 65.43.8 US dollars +0.2 billion US dollars. The latest round of round B financing was led by Avery Dennison, a label and material manufacturer, and other investment institutions included Amazon, Samsung Electronics, Qualcomm Venture Capital, Grove Investment and M Investment.
WIliot's founding team is also a founding member of 60MHz wireless chip developer Wilocity, and Qualcomm has invested 400 million US dollars to acquire Wilocity.
Halio
Hailuo Technology Co., Ltd. is a deep learning AI chip start-up enterprise located in Israel, which uses innovative computing, storage and control technologies to provide processors with data center computing performance for edge devices. The performance of Hailo-8 deep learning processor can reach 26 TPOS, which not only provides sufficient computing power for edge intelligent devices, but also has good size and power consumption characteristics, and is suitable for ADAS, Internet of Things and smart cities.
Hailo was founded on 20 17, and its members are from the elite intelligence department of the Israel Defense Forces. After three rounds of financing, the total amount of financing is $24.5 million, and the latest round of financing is $8.5 million, which is led by China venture capital institution GloryVentures.
Green wave
Green Wave Technology Co., Ltd. is an Internet of Things chip design startup company located in France. Its GAP8 application processor is an ultra-low power IOT chip for edge AI computing, which is suitable for computer vision, voice and gesture recognition, wearable devices and so on. GAP8 can provide high-performance AI computing power for battery-powered smart terminals, and process the data collected by sensors locally without transmitting to the cloud.
After three rounds of financing, Green Wave accumulated financing of 1.065438+ 10,000 euros. The lead investor in this round is Huami, and the French semiconductor material manufacturer Soitec also participated in the investment.
horizon
Horizon is one of China unicorn artificial intelligence start-ups, and its founding team has world-leading technologies in autonomous driving, image processing and face recognition. Horizon takes AI on the horizon as its strategic positioning, and wants to be the lowest enabler in the AI era, providing complete software and hardware AI solutions from chips, algorithms, tools to development platforms for application markets such as autonomous driving, smart cities and smart retail. Based on BPU (Brain Processing Unit), Horizon released the first generation of autopilot processor-Journey1.0 in February, 20 17, which can be used in L2 Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS), and released the horizon matrix autopilot computing platform in April, 20 18. Automotive-grade artificial intelligence chips equipped with Horizon II BPU will also be released this year.
After four rounds of financing, Horizon has raised 700 million US dollars. Investment institutions include Intel Venture Capital, Morningstar Capital, Sequoia Capital and Zhenge Fund. Series B financing is USD 600 million, led by SK China, with a valuation of USD 3 billion.
AEPONYX
Aeponyx is a developer of planar low-light switch chips in Canada. It uses silicon photoelectric and MEMS integrated technology to design and manufacture miniature photoelectric switches, which are used as adjustable transceivers and photoelectric line switches in optical fiber communication, telecommunication networks and data centers.
The accumulated financing of the company is180,000 Canadian dollars, and the investment institutions include Pangaea Ventures, Fonds InnovExport, Ecofuel Fund, etc. Aeponyx used to be the incubator of Silicon Catalyst, a semiconductor start-up incubator in Silicon Valley.
Xinyue technology
Xinyue Technology, founded on 20 17, is a semiconductor test equipment development and manufacturer headquartered in Hefei, Anhui Province, focusing on the research and development and production of very large scale integrated circuit test equipment (ATE), including SOC test equipment, mainly for the integrated circuit design, production, packaging and testing market.
Xinyue Technology completed the financing of10 million USD in March. This round of financing was jointly participated by Gao Jie Capital, Yangtze River Guo Hong and Angel Fund of Hefei Economic Development Zone, and Walden International continued to follow up.
Kadiya biology
Cardea Bio is a digital biosensor product and platform developer located in San Diego, California, USA. Its innovative field effect biosensor was launched in February 20 10.
FEB technology will graphene field effect transistor GFET
GFET and biological field effect transistor BFET
The combination of BFET enables graphene biosensor to measure the motion state of biomolecules.
Movellus
Movellus is a chip design analog ip developer based in Silicon Valley. Its analog IP generation technology can design and develop standard analog IP modules, including PLL, DLL and LDO, by using digital tools and standard cell libraries.
The company has raised a total of US$ 6.5438+million, and the investment institutions include Stata Venture Partners and intel capital, the founder of ADI.
Matrrix
Mattrix Technology Co., Ltd. is a flat panel display technology start-up, from UF Innovate | The Hub, a technology innovation incubator of the University of Florida. With its unique all-hole organic light-emitting transistor OLET,
OLET display technology can solve the problem of the existing organic light-emitting diode backplane, thus making the organic light-emitting diode display enter the mass production and mainstream market. The core of OLET technology is a new pixel structure named CN-VOLET, which integrates the driving transistor, storage capacitor and light-emitting layer, and places them in sequence to form a vertical and transparent stack, which will improve the perforation rate and display effect, not only improve the production efficiency of organic light-emitting diode screens, but also prolong their service life.
Mattrix was founded on 20 18, with accumulated financing of 5 million USD. This round of investment comes from Samsung Venture Capital and Japanese high-tech material developer JSR. At present, the company has obtained 16 American patents, and its display technology-related patents and IP have obtained more than 350 authorized cooperation agreements in the United States, Europe, Japan, South Korea and China.
Chuantu microelectronics
Shanghai Chuantu Microelectronics is an analog chip design company, focusing on the design and development of satellite navigation RF and isolator chips. The10000000000000000 A round financing was led by Zhonghuijin, and the Pre-A round investment institution Pan Lin Capital continued to follow suit.
Chuantu Microelectronics was founded on 20 16. At present, there are two core product lines, namely, special RF chip for satellite navigation and isolator chip. Among them, the RF chip products are full-mode and full-frequency special RF chips for satellite navigation, which can cover Beidou, GPS, GLONASS and Galileo systems, and have been successfully commercialized in the fields of marine fishery, command and rescue, and high-precision navigation. The isolator chip product line is based on SiO2 _ 2 _ 2 capacitive isolation isolator chips, including a full range of digital isolator chips from 2 channels to 6 channels, which have been mass-produced.
Tarie
Tarie is a short-wave infrared SWIR located in Tel Aviv.
SWIR sensor developers are suitable for ADAS and autonomous driving applications. Its proprietary short-wave infrared imaging sensing technology can provide clear imaging for vehicles in rainy and foggy weather and at night, thus avoiding collisions and traffic accidents.
Trieye was founded on 20 16, and its SWIR technology comes from Professor uriel Levy, a nano-optics expert from Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Its $3 million seed fund came from Grove Ventures, and the A round of financing was led by intel capital.
Morse micro
Morse miniature semiconductor electronics
MorseMicro is a wireless communication chip developer located in Sydney, Australia, founded by former Broadcom employees and WiFi experts. The 802.11ah/wi-fi halo standard proposed by the company works in the 1GHz frequency band, which has the advantages of longer transmission distance and lower power consumption compared with the traditional 2.4GHz and 5GHz standards, and the transmission rate can reach 40Mbps or 80 Mbps (when the channel is 16), which is higher than that of.
Morse Micro has accumulated 35.2 million Australian dollars in financing, and the latest round of financing was led by ADI founders Ray Stata and Main Sequence Ventures.
imaginary
Mythic is an ic design company that integrates analog storage and computing technology to develop AI inference processor. Its intelligent processing unit IPU
IPU processor adopts analog computing technology, which can perform neural network AI reasoning calculation on the built-in flash memory array. Compared with digital AI processor, it has advantages in performance, power consumption and cost. Mythic's AI processor is suitable for high-performance AI reasoning in data centers and AI reasoning in edge devices.
Founded on 20 12, Mythic has R&D and operation teams in Austin, Texas and Mu Hong, California, respectively. After six rounds of financing, the accumulated financing amount is 85.2 million US dollars, and the latest round of financing is led by Valor Equity Partners.