Silicon Catalyst
siliconcatalyst.com Direct investor
Silicon Catalyst is a semiconductor-focused accelerator that admits early-stage hardware startups into a 24-month program. It also operates Silicon Catalyst Ventures, which funds early-stage startups accepted into the accelerator.
Silicon Catalyst is an accelerator. It invests directly in companies, at seed, in semiconductor, chips, chiplets and materials. 150 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“Silicon Catalyst is the only accelerator focused on the Global Semiconductor Industry including Chips, Chiplets, Materials, IP and Silicon fabrication-based Photonics, MEMS, Sensors, Life Science and Quantum.”
— Silicon Catalyst, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Accelerator
- Stage
- Seed
- Invests in
- global, UK, EU, Israel, Japan, Australia, Malaysia
- Sectors
- semiconductor, chips, chiplets, materials, IP, photonics, MEMS, sensors
- Portfolio
- 150 companies
Team, as Silicon Catalyst publishes it
- Nick Kepler COO, Director
- Tarun Verma Managing Partner
- Lance Bell, PhD Managing Partner
- Richard Curtin Managing Partner
- Laura Swan Managing Partner VP OPS Si Catalyst Angels GP Si Catalyst Ventures
- Paul Pickering Managing Partner Director Si Catalyst Angels
- Raul Camposano, PhD Managing Partner
- James Lougheed Managing Partner, Strategic Initiatives
- Doug McBane Managing Partner
- Dennis Meister Managing Partner
- Marcie Weinstein, PhD Managing Partner
Names and roles exactly as listed on siliconcatalyst.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Silicon Catalyst publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://siliconcatalyst.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, sectors, thesis_quote, description, portfolio_count, status
- https://siliconcatalyst.com/our-teampeople
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