# VentureTech Alliance

> VentureTech Alliance is a VC fund backing Semiconductor and Manufacturing. See 66 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Jose, United States
- Total investments: 66
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 6%
- Last fund: Sep 2006
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/venturetech-alliance-llc/about/
- Website: http://www.vtalliance.com

VentureTech Alliance is a venture investment management firm targeting business investment in the semiconductor industry. They also concentrate on semiconductor businesses and other rising technology areas.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Semiconductor | 21 | 32% |
| Manufacturing | 14 | 21% |
| Software | 12 | 18% |
| Electronics | 8 | 12% |
| Hardware | 6 | 9% |

58 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 17 | 26% |
| Series A | 10 | 15% |
| Series D | 10 | 15% |
| Series B | 9 | 14% |
| Series E | 5 | 8% |

12 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 39 | 59% |
| Israel | 1 | 2% |
| Taiwan | 1 | 2% |
| Germany | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Christy Chou | Partner & CFO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christy-chou |
| Kai Tsang | Team Member | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kai-tsang |
| Patrick Chang | Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/patrick-chang-2 |
| Ron Norris | Team Member | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ron-norris |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Eridu | Eridu is the pioneer advancing the frontier in AI networking, breaking through the network wall with a solution built from the ground up for scale-out and scale-up networks in AI data centers. Eridu’s network switch delivers the order-of-magnitude advance in performance, radix and throughput needed to maximize utilization, throughput andefficiency in AI clusters and data centers. Founded by a team of accomplished technology and business innovators and backed by leading investors with over $200M in funding to date, Eridu is solving the network bottlenecks throttling AI. | $200M | Series A | Mar 10, 2026 |  |
| Lyte AI | Lyte.ai develops end-to-end perception platforms for Physical AI and robotics, integrating custom silicon, sensors, compute, and software to enable safe navigation in complex environments.The company offers LyteVision, a unified 4D vision system combining RGB imaging, motion awareness, and depth sensing for robots, drones, and autonomous vehicles.This "visual brain" draws from founders' Face ID expertise, powering applications in robotic arms, quadrupeds, robotaxis, and humanoids. | $107M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 05, 2026 |  |
| Movandi | Movandi is the fastest growing 5G mmWave solutions company with a mission to revolutionize 5G Everywhere. The company was founded by two siblings, Maryam and Reza Rofougaran, today’s top leaders in the wireless industry, whose innovations have shaped and transformed wireless in the last few decades. Having pioneered wireless systems. Movandi issolving real-world 5G mmWave deployments with unmatched differentiation and high performance core technology in 5G integrated circuits, antennas, systems, and algorithms design disciplines, to enable 5G to its full potential. Movandi’s flexible solutions solve 5G mmWave deployment cost and schedule challenges and provide future-proof solutions utilizing mesh and routing to further improve 5G coverage and capacity. Movandi’s strong and diverse system portfolio of IP and patents plays a critical role across the complete 5G ecosystem, from infrastructure to mobile, while allowing for maximum 5G coverage. | $40M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 14, 2025 |  |
| Omni Design | Omni Design Technologies, Inc. is a developer of disruptive, ultra-low power semiconductor embedded circuits (IP Cores) including ultra-low power analog circuits, highly efficient interface circuits and connected sensors. Our patented and proprietary technology enables solutions that are dramatically lower power and superior performance,architected from the ground up to take advantage of deep sub-micron CMOS processes. Omni Design's mission is to provide a wide range of ultra low power high performance embedded circuits configured to enable highly differentiated semiconductor systems and plug-and-play SoC development. Our IP offerings are targeted for SoC addressing a wide range of application areas including IoT, test and measurement, high speed interfaces, communications, medical imaging, and sensor hubs. | $35M | Series A | Sep 17, 2025 |  |
| Avicena Tech | It has been known for decades that optical interconnects have the potential to provide significant benefits even at lengths down to 1 millimeter and below. Silicon photonics, plasmonics, and other high-volume commercial technologies have reached a tipping point where they can be used to address critical chip-to-chip interconnect needs.Avicena’sultra-dense, low-latency, low-cost, low-power optical interconnects revolutionize inter-chip communications and vastly improve the performance of systems that are hampered by legacy chip-to-chip interconnects. | $65M | Series B | May 14, 2025 |  |
| Celestial AI | Celestial AI is a machine learning accelerator company developing an optical interconnect technology platform for data centers and AI solutions. It utilizes the advantages of photonics, mixed-signal ASICs, and advanced packaging to offer a sustainable improvement in computing performance that helps clients deliver superior AI acceleration hardwareand software alternatives. The company's Photonic FabricTM provides the foundational technology for optically scalable, disaggregated data center computing and memory to unleash advancements in AI with sustainable and profitable business models. | $255M | Series C | Mar 11, 2025 |  |
| 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. | $100M | Series B | Feb 13, 2025 |  |
| Ayar Labs | Ayar Labs develops a monolithic in-package optical I/O (MIPO) solution for applications that require high bandwidth, low latency, and power-efficient short-reach interconnects.The company disrupts the traditional performance, cost, and efficiency curves of the semiconductor and computing industries by driving improvement in interconnectbandwidth density at lower power. Its patented approach uses industry-standard cost-effective silicon processing techniques to develop high speed, high density, low power optical-based interconnect “chiplets” and lasers to replace traditional electrical-based I/O. Ayar’s flagship product is a chip called TeraPhy that implements its optical technology on compact silicon die. The chip can be integrated directly into a central processing unit, graphics card, or another processor to give it optical data transmission capabilities.The Emeryville, California-headquartered company was established in 2015 by Alex Wright-Gladstein, Vladimir Stojanovic, Chen Sun, and Mark Wade. | $155M | Series D | Dec 11, 2024 |  |
| Enfabrica | Enfabrica develops groundbreaking hardware, software, and system technologies that solve the critical bottlenecks in the next generation. It designs networking chips to handle AI workloads, allowing businesses to get upgraded and advanced information technology solutions to tackle modern problems. | $115M | Series C | Nov 19, 2024 |  |
| Eliyan | Eliyan manufactures semiconductor interconnects to accelerate chiplet-based systems. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 13, 2024 |  |

10 of 66 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [U.S. Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/us-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Intel Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/intel-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Braemar Energy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/braemar-energy-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Greylock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greylock) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [NVIDIA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nvidia) — VC Fund, 5 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does VentureTech Alliance invest in?

VentureTech Alliance invests primarily in Semiconductor, Manufacturing and Software startups, most often at Series C and Series A stage. Most of the 66 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### Who are the partners at VentureTech Alliance?

The team at VentureTech Alliance includes Christy Chou (Partner & CFO), Kai Tsang (Team Member) and Patrick Chang (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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