# Silicon Catalyst

> Silicon Catalyst is a VC fund backing Semiconductor and Software. See 26 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Clara, United States
- Total investments: 26
- Last investment: Mar 2025
- Lead investor: 4%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/silicon-catalyst/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/SiliconCatalyst
- Website: http://siliconcatalyst.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SiliconCatalyst/

Silicon Catalyst is an incubator for startup companies that are developing solutions where innovation in semiconductor design and IP is required. Silicon Catalyst provides funding and in-kind services to address the current bottlenecks facing entrepreneurs, namely accessing and affording leadership design tools, fabrication and testing ofsemiconductor chips.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Semiconductor | 15 | 58% |
| Software | 7 | 27% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 7 | 27% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 19% |
| Manufacturing | 4 | 15% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 19 | 73% |
| Series A | 3 | 12% |
| Non-equity Assistance | 2 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 15 | 58% |
| Canada | 3 | 12% |
| Israel | 2 | 8% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 8% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ram Ofir | Advisor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ram-ofir |
| Daniel Armbrust | Co-founder, Board Director and initial CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-armbrust |
| Jim Hogan | Director | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jim-hogan |
| Raul Camposano | Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/raul-camposano |
| Rick Lazansky | Chief Investment Officer, Founder & Chair | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rick-lazansky |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Niobium Microsystems | Niobium Microsystems creates custom integrated circuit and microelectronic system solutions for clients with complex power, performance, and security constraints. |  | Seed | Mar 14, 2025 |  |
| Quantum Power Transformation | Quantum Power Transformation focusses on advanced, more efficient “power conversion” solutions. |  | Seed | Feb 19, 2025 |  |
| xcelerium | xcelerium is a semiconductor business that is developing domain-specific processors for convergent workloads. The company creates processors for a variety of industries, including wireless communications, sophisticated radar, image signal processing, computer vision, and machine learning, allowing clients to have access to appropriate processors toboost their profitability. |  | Seed | Jan 31, 2025 |  |
| Edgewater Wireless Systems | Edgewater Wireless develops a new radio architecture for Wi-Fi that solves the issues of capacity and interference in Wi-Fi performance. It is a disruptive innovator in the $33 billion global residential and enterprise Wi-Fi markets, Edgewater Wireless works with equipment manufacturers, service providers, and leading global silicon players withpatented silicon solutions, Access Points, and IP licensing. Edgewater is the industry leader in groundbreaking Wi-Fi Spectrum Slicing technology, delivering next-generation Wi-Fi today. | $3M | Non-equity Assistance | Nov 12, 2024 |  |
| Niobium Microsystems | Niobium Microsystems creates custom integrated circuit and microelectronic system solutions for clients with complex power, performance, and security constraints. | $5.5M | Seed | May 07, 2024 |  |
| Lemurian Labs | Lemurian Labs has created a universal platform that works across any hardware and spans compiler technology and runtime orchestration. This streamlined, hardware-agnostic approach simplifies AI development, enabling organizations to write code once and deploy it seamlessly across edge, cloud and on-premise environments. By cutting through thecomplexity of fragmented software ecosystems, Lemurian Labs empowers businesses to build and scale AI efficiently, affordably and responsibly—unlocking the full potential of AI innovation without proprietary constraints. | $9M | Seed | Sep 08, 2023 |  |
| Mentium Technologies | Mentium focuses on bringing bolt-on hardware solutions for those Edge applications that need the highest speed, quality, and reliability from AI inference. Whenever AI is used in mission-critical decision-making, reaching the highest accuracy and performance is a must. Those are the applications where Mentium's solutions are the best. |  | Seed | Aug 01, 2023 |  |
| EnCharge AI | EnCharge AI delivers AI compute solutions that span from edge to cloud, catering to various business needs. The company focuses on providing transformative technology for AI computation, emphasizing efficiency and sustainability. EnCharge AI's offerings enable businesses to utilize advanced AI models without being constrained by power, space,or cost limitations. Their products are designed to support a wide range of applications, facilitating enhanced performance and scalability in AI-driven initiatives. By integrating cutting-edge technology, EnCharge AI aims to streamline the computational demands of modern AI workloads. | $21.7M | Series A | Dec 14, 2022 |  |
| Salience Labs | Salience Labs is building a hybrid photonic-electronic chip for AI. We have designed a massively parallel, ultra-high-throughput Photonic Tensor Processing Unit. Photonics allows data to be modulated at up to 100 GHZ, and allows for high levels of parallelization using multiplexing. We integrate this photonic unit into a SoC architecture designedto exploit its high throughput for AI inference. Salience Labs technology is based on decades of research collaboration between Oxford University and the University of Münster, Germany. | $11.5M | Seed | May 12, 2022 |  |
| PolyN Technology | PolyN.ai - is a Tiny AI, fabless semiconductor startup. With such technology, as NASP – we can enable electronics around us to see, hear, feel and sense - almost like us, humans, – with neuromorphic analog sensible implants.BENEFITS for end-users: they can  run  their  AI on various IoT and autonomous devices with higher security andreliability:  (i)   NO internet connection is needed to run AI; (ii)  Ultra-low energy consumption - 10-200X less; (iii) Much lower latency; (iv) Less expensively. It helps clients to bring their AI - to the devices. SCOPE of APPs: IoT/Security/Robotics/Industry 4.0/Mobility/Electronics/Wearables/Health-MedTech/etc. Also, this technology can revolutionize the industry: now AI Software can be ‘cast’ directly into Hardware. Our clients get a super advantage: 1-2 months delivery time (5-10X times faster than conventionally) thanks to our unique NASP mask programmable neuro core. | $9M | Seed | Apr 01, 2022 |  |

10 of 26 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Founders Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founders-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Fusion Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fusion-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Morgan Creek Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/morgan-creek-capital-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Pear VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pejman-mar-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Samsung Catalyst Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/samsung-catalyst-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Silicon Catalyst invest in?

Silicon Catalyst invests primarily in Semiconductor, Software and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 26 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Silicon Catalyst?

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### Who are the partners at Silicon Catalyst?

The team at Silicon Catalyst includes Ram Ofir (Advisor), Daniel Armbrust (Co-founder, Board Director and initial CEO) and Jim Hogan (Director), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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