Mayfield, a Menlo Park, CA-based venture capital firm, and Silicon Catalyst, a San Jose, CA-based semiconductor incubator, joined forces to foster semiconductor startup innovation.
Mayfield will invest capital in and provide mentoring to the majority of seed stage companies admitted to the Silicon Catalyst Incubator/Accelerator and evaluate them for follow-on investments.
The collaboration follows the firm’s conviction in the renaissance of silicon. Over the last five years, Mayfield has partnered with the founders of Alif Semiconductor, Frore Systems, Fungible, Graphwear, NUVIA (acquired by Qualcomm), Recogni, and a couple of stealth startups. This follows the firm’s 50+ year track record of investing in iconic semiconductor companies such as Cypress, Inphi, LAM Research, LSI Logic, MIPS, Qtera, S3 and Sandisk.
Silicon Catalyst is an incubator focused exclusively on accelerating semiconductor solutions, built on a comprehensive coalition of in-kind and strategic partners to dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of development. More than 700 startup companies worldwide have engaged with Silicon Catalyst and the company has admitted 88 exciting companies. The incubator/accelerator supplies startups with access to design tools, silicon devices, networking, and a path to funding, banking and marketing acumen to launch and grow their companies’ novel technology solutions.
Mayfield is a global venture capital firm with a 50+ year track record of inception and early-stage investing, partnering with founders to build iconic enterprise, consumer, semiconductor, and human & planetary health companies. Since its founding, the firm has invested in more than 550 companies, resulting in 120 IPOs and more than 225 acquisitions, and currently has $2.2B under management.
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12/12/2022