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ChipAgents secured an oversubscribed $21 million Series A round to advance its AI platform for semiconductor design and verification. The round, led by Bessemer…
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Vertical Semiconductor, a spinout from MIT, secured $11 million in seed funding to commercialize vertical gallium nitride (GaN) transistors aimed at solving one of…
Pasadena-based PINC Technologies, a spinout from Caltech’s Nonlinear Photonics Laboratory, has raised $6.8 million in Seed+ funding to commercialize its NanoPPLN platform — an…
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Aeluma closed an oversubscribed public offering of 1.96 million shares at $13.00 per share, generating $25.4 million in gross proceeds. The company, which uplisted…
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