# TEL Venture Capital

> TEL Venture Capital is a VC fund backing Semiconductor and Manufacturing. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Fremont, United States
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 6%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.tel.com/about/telvc.htm

TEL Venture Capital is a VC fund in Fremont focused on Semiconductor and Manufacturing. TEL Venture Capital firmly believe that their future is built on a foundation of trust. It is essential that they make efficient use of their resources to continue leading the digital age and that they take responsibility to fulfill their promises, without fail. To that end, they are firmly committed to the future success of their customers,shareholders, partners, and local communities.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Semiconductor | 7 | 44% |
| Manufacturing | 6 | 38% |
| Nanotechnology | 4 | 25% |
| Chemical | 3 | 19% |
| Computer | 3 | 19% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 4 | 25% |
| Series C | 4 | 25% |
| Seed | 3 | 19% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 13% |
| Series A | 1 | 6% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 44% |
| Japan | 3 | 19% |
| Spain | 1 | 6% |
| France | 1 | 6% |
| Germany | 1 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kay Enjoji | President | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kay-enjoji |
| Jim Traynor | Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jim-traynor |
| Ken Matsuse | Senior Researcher | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ken-matsuse |
| Ted Hirose | Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ted-hirose |
| Tsuyoshi Mihara | Venture Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tsuyoshi-mihara |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Phosio Corporation | Phosio Corporation develops a photoresist material for the fabrication of high aspect ratio nanostructures. The company was founded in 2018 as a spin-off from Oregon State University's Department of Chemistry and the NSF-funded Center for Sustainable Materials Chemistry. | $4M | Seed | May 13, 2026 |  |
| ChEmpower | ChEmpower is an advanced materials company that develops chemically reactive, abrasive-free planarization pads to improve chip yields and sustainability in semiconductor manufacturing. | $18.7M | Series A | Apr 24, 2025 |  |
| wooptix | A word About US.A bunch of visionary people. Scientific scouts. Daring entrepreneurs. Just a crew of dreamers, all with a common goal. Improving Human Experience.They give a Key to interact with the world through your imagination & our technology. Is a new way to play with the environment. Mountains. Trees. Clouds. Flowers. Rivers. Rocks.Animals. Waves. People. Friends. And a new way to show your feelings. flying, exploring, Surfing & Underwater. | $10.4M | Series C | Feb 19, 2025 |  |
| Cellid | Cellid developing the waveguide-architecture display module for AR glasses and high-performance spatial recognition software. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | May 01, 2023 |  |
| Nexfi Technology | Nexfi Technology focuses on the development of high-voltage DC power supplies and power-switching modules. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| Adaptive Surface Technologies | Adaptive Surface Technologies is an industrial technology company that produces materials and coatings that repel fluids and contaminants. Its wet coatings solve long-standing repellency problems across the industrial and container markets and the dry coatings and additives for marine antifouling, anti-ice, and other applications.The company wasfounded in 2014 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | $3.8M | Series D | Mar 21, 2022 |  |
| wooptix | A word About US.A bunch of visionary people. Scientific scouts. Daring entrepreneurs. Just a crew of dreamers, all with a common goal. Improving Human Experience.They give a Key to interact with the world through your imagination & our technology. Is a new way to play with the environment. Mountains. Trees. Clouds. Flowers. Rivers. Rocks.Animals. Waves. People. Friends. And a new way to show your feelings. flying, exploring, Surfing & Underwater. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 06, 2021 |  |
| PsiQuantum | PsiQuantum develops quantum computing technologies using photonic qubits and silicon photonics to build fault-tolerant quantum computing systems. The company designs quantum hardware, software, and system architectures that support the development and operation of scalable quantum computers. It manufactures quantum photonic chips throughsemiconductor fabrication processes and develops cryogenic infrastructure and quantum algorithms for large-scale computing applications. PsiQuantum also collaborates with research institutions, government organizations, and industry partners on quantum computing research and technology development. Its work focuses on advancing quantum computing capabilities for scientific, industrial, and computational applications. |  | Series C | May 11, 2021 |  |
| Ferroelectric Memory Company | FMC is the provider of extremely efficient FeFET memory solutions for non-volatile storage. FeFET is ultra-low-power, high-performance, very dense, and extremely temperature stable. It will scale to transistor sizes ranging from 28nm to 5nm and below. The FMC team has been supported by “EXIST Forschungstransfer”, a program of the Federal Ministryfor Economic Affairs and Energy. The company is based in Dresden, Germany.FMC commercializes a disruptive material innovation that will solve this problem for current and future technology nodes, i.e. eNVM based on ferroelectric hafnium oxide (FE-HfO2). The unexpected physical effect of ferroelectricity in HfO2 allows for the transformation of classical high-k metal-gate (HKMG) transistors into nonvolatile ferroelectric field effect transistors (FeFET). In this way, MCUs can easily be scaled from e.g. 65 nm down to 28 nm and beyond enabling tremendous advantages for the overall system: SoC cost reduction of around 80%, per bit write energy reduction by a factor of 1000 and an overall performance gain of the system of around 70% due to the transition to advanced process nodes. Due to the close relation of FeFET and CMOS baseline, there is no roadblock for FMC’s technology to be applied to cutting-edge technology nodes like 22 nm FDSOI, 1X nm FinFET and beyond. | $20M | Series B | Nov 17, 2020 |  |
| Floadia | Floadia Corporation is an energetic start up, focused on providing embedded non-volatile memory IP solutions.The engineering team came from Renesas who has been developing embedded FLASH technology for over 20 years, including the inventor of "Source Side Injection" for Split Gate FLASH, which is the fundamental technology for commonlyused FLASH architecture today. | $9.9M | Series C | Oct 26, 2020 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Mitsui Global Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mitsui-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [European Innovation Council](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/european-innovation-council) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ITIC: Industrial Technology Investment Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/industrial-technology-investment-corporation) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Intel Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/intel-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [M Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/merckventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Oceanshore Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oceanshore-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does TEL Venture Capital invest in?

TEL Venture Capital invests primarily in Semiconductor, Manufacturing and Nanotechnology startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 16 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 TEL Venture Capital?

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### Who are the partners at TEL Venture Capital?

The team at TEL Venture Capital includes Kay Enjoji (President), Jim Traynor (Principal) and Ken Matsuse (Senior Researcher), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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