MentionFox lists 22 Hardware and semiconductor companies for 2024. Of them, 19 are Y Combinator companies (the newest batch here is Fall 2024, with 2); 3 won an SBIR or STTR award.
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Hardware and semiconductor startups in 2024
| Company | What it does | Date | Amount | Round / stage | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vista Photonics, Inc | Manufacture and delivery of compact, battery powered, optical sensor flight units for detecting combustion products and ammonia, known… | Award starts Nov 12, 2024 | $2.5M | SBIR Phase III | Federal award record |
| Beam Engineering For Advanced Measurements Co. | Proposal f2-17004- covert mwir laser transmitter | Award starts Oct 15, 2024 | $749,906 | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Teraspatial Inc | Research and development efforts to design, fabricate, assemble, build, test, evaluate, verify, validate, and procure microelectronics… | Award starts Oct 3, 2024 | $1.3M | STTR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Darkgrade | Let your camera understand the world | Fall 2024 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Fresco | AI copilot for construction estimators | Fall 2024 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Conductor Quantum | AI that operates quantum computers for scientific discovery | Summer 2024 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| DeepSim, Inc. | An AI physics simulator for AI chip design | Summer 2024 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Diode Computers, Inc. | Automate circuit board design using AI | Summer 2024 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Ember Robotics | Datadog for robots | Summer 2024 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Hestus, Inc. | An AI-powered CAD software | Summer 2024 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Outerport | EDA for Industrial Control Systems | Summer 2024 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Saphira AI | The Enablement Layer for Physical AI | Summer 2024 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Sensei | Robotic Training Data at Scale | Summer 2024 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Sorcerer | Building a nervous system for the atmosphere | Summer 2024 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Spaceium Inc | In-Space Refueling | Summer 2024 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Synnax | Unified Hardware Control and Data Processing Software | Summer 2024 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| XTraffic | Technology for cities to automate and manage their traffic lights. | Summer 2024 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Zettascale Computing | Chips for frontier AI | Summer 2024 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| atopile | We make tools to design electronics circuit boards with code | Winter 2024 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Elodin | Unified flight software and hardware for the mission of tomorrow | Winter 2024 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Silogy | An AI-powered test and debug platform for chip developers | Winter 2024 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Tuesday Labs | Delightful robots | Winter 2024 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing |
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