The Silicon Catalyst University Program connects the world’s leading universities with the Silicon Catalyst Semiconductor Startup Ecosystem.
The Program pairs our alumni, advisors, ambassadors and industry partners with research professors and their students considering building a company. The result is a clear path for transforming research into startups ready to change the world.
“This is an incredibly exciting time to be in the semiconductor industry, as the opportunities for applying the academically sourced innovations to real-world problems have exploded. Key application areas ripe for improvement include everything from cost-effective medical point-of-care, to smart farming, safe cities and 5G communications. Silicon Catalyst is honored to have these prestigious academic institutions participate in our launch event,” stated Laura Swan, Silicon Catalyst Partner and University Program Manager (laura@sicatalyst.com)
For universities, Silicon Catalyst will provide speakers, moderators and panel experts, judges for pitch competitions, mentoring, internships via our portfolio companies, teach special subject classes, and serious entrepreneurial advice and help on starting a semiconductor company.
Silicon Catalyst Portfolio Companies spun out from universities
Revolutionizing the world of gas sensing by developing a new generation of IoT compatible gas sensors
Silicon-dominant anodes. Enabling high capacity and fast charging Li-ion batteries
Solutions that sense and image objects in contact at high resolution using GHz ultrasound
Circular-DNA Technologies for 21st-century Medicine and Life Sciences
Accelerators for server-class AI inference on the edge.
High-density volatile embedded memories on standard CMOS
Zero-power sensors with uninterrupted operation and unprecedented accuracy
Enabling the next phase of Moore’s Law through optical connectivity
Silicon Photonics on MEMS with the low cost structure of Microelectronics
Multi-scale biochemical phenotyping in limited sample volume
Analog In-memory Computing for AI
Embedded SRAM using 1T & 2T cells in standard foundry flow
Ultra-low energy, ultra-low power wireless communications
High-performance AMS designs for consumer medical imaging, 5G and LiDAR
Hi performance compute for AI
Our University Ambassadors
“I have been an advisor for Silicon Catalyst for several years, providing advice to several of our portfolio companies. I helped both Mentium and Trameto complete their tape-outs. I also helped shape and write our ‘Starting an IC Company’ course and along with Pete Rodriguez and Raul Camposano, presenting the course for the Stanford EE380.”
Mark Ross, B.S. and M.S. in EE from Stanford
“Along with evaluating several of our applicants, I also moderated the “Where’s the Edge? Opportunities in the Future of Computing from the Core to the Moon and Beyond” panel discussion a joint panel with Cornell University Praxis Centere, Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility, and Silicon Catalyst Angels and Cornell Alumni Angel investor group, Red Bear Angels.”
Rick Bahr, Adjunct Professor with Stanford University, BS and MS in EE from MIT
“We presented the Silicon Catalyst Overview to professors from the Electrical Engineering Department at Imperial College London, to a reaction of both excitement and appreciation. I’m looking forward to bringing the news to more universities across the UK, Europe and Asia. At Maxeler Technologies we’ve long recognized their crucial role in research, and the companion challenges of bringing revolutionary technologies to market.”
Oskar Mencer, PhD, Stanford Computer Systems