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Silicon Catalyst

Founders Rick Lazansky

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Total investments 21
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$4M
Portfolio companies 18
Rounds per year 2.33
Lead investments 0
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.14
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Semiconductor
  • Electronics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Software
  • Hardware
Summary

Silicon Catalyst is the famous VC, which was founded in 2014. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Santa Clara.

The top activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight quadric.io, Ayar Labs. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Electronics, Energy Efficiency.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Silicon Catalyst, startups are often financed by Uncork Capital, Trucks Venture Capital, SV Angel. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Founders Fund, Uncork Capital, Trucks Venture Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Silicon Valley Bank, Playground Global, Pangaea Ventures.

The fund was created by Rick Lazansky.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Lemurian Labs

Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC)
Artificial Intelligence
Electronics
Machine Learning
Robotics
Semiconductor
$9M08 Sep 2023 -

EnCharge AI

Artificial Intelligence
Embedded Software
Machine Learning
Semiconductor
Software
$21M14 Dec 2022 Santa Clara, California, United States

Salience Labs

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Sensor
Software
$11M12 May 2022 -

PolyN Technology

Artificial Intelligence
Electronics
Information Technology
Mobile
Software
$9M01 Apr 2022 Caesarea, Hefa, Israel

Kura Technologies

Augmented Reality
Electronics
Hardware
Optical Communication
Software
Wearables
07 Jan 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Dover Microsystems

Cyber Security
Security
Semiconductor
18 Dec 2019 Massachusetts, United States

quadric.io

Computer
Hardware
$15M14 May 2019 California, United States

Eridan

Semiconductor
$8M01 Mar 2019 Mountain View, California, United States

ProbiusDx

$2M26 Oct 2018 California, United States

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Total investments 21
Average round size 4M
Rounds per year 2.33
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.14
Group Appearance index 0.62

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Lemurian Labs

Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC)
Artificial Intelligence
Electronics
Machine Learning
Robotics
Semiconductor
$9M08 Sep 2023 -

EnCharge AI

Artificial Intelligence
Embedded Software
Machine Learning
Semiconductor
Software
$21M14 Dec 2022 Santa Clara, California, United States

Salience Labs

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Sensor
Software
$11M12 May 2022 -

PolyN Technology

Artificial Intelligence
Electronics
Information Technology
Mobile
Software
$9M01 Apr 2022 Caesarea, Hefa, Israel

Kura Technologies

Augmented Reality
Electronics
Hardware
Optical Communication
Software
Wearables
07 Jan 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Dover Microsystems

Cyber Security
Security
Semiconductor
18 Dec 2019 Massachusetts, United States

quadric.io

Computer
Hardware
$15M14 May 2019 California, United States

Eridan

Semiconductor
$8M01 Mar 2019 Mountain View, California, United States

ProbiusDx

$2M26 Oct 2018 California, United States
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