Best Semiconductors Companies in Boston, United States
The 48 best Semiconductors companies in Boston, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Lightmatter.
Our analysis of 69 Semiconductors companies
$22.3b in tracked funding; 88% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Semiconductors companies in Boston
| # | Company | Last round | Disclosed funding | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Web popularity | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adcotron EMS Provider of electronic manufacturing services | — | — | — | Agnes Young CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | Adero Content delivery service | — | — | 19 | Jonathan Crane CEO | — | — | 14 patents Wireless RFID tags for real‑time object tracking, organization, and identity verification | — |
| 3 | Agnisys Provider of specification automation solutions for semiconductor design, verification, and validation | — | — | — | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+34 | Top 10M | 2 patents Electronic design automation tools for circuit layout and synthesis optimization | — |
| 4 | Analog Circuit Works SoC and analog circuit IP providers | — | — | — | Bill Ellersick Founder & President | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | analog photonics Analog Photonics is an electronic company that manufactures photonics integrated circuits and high performing… | — | — | 34 | — | — | — | 198 patents Advanced optical phased‑array beamforming, coherent LiDAR, and detection‑efficiency control | — |
| 6 | Axiom Optics Distributor Optical Instrumentation | — | — | 3 | Philippe Clemenceau Co-Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+35 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 7 | Bidirectional Display Innovating bidirectional display technology for mobile electronics with integrated sensor solutions | — | — | — | Zachary Thomas Co-Founder | — | — | 24 patents Patents concentrated in electrical & electronics | — |
| 8 | BraveHeart Manufacturer of wireless life sensors | — | — | 11 | Stephen McCalmont Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
Top 12 Semiconductors companies in Boston
#1
Series A · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2018 · 10 employees$14.3Mraised▾
Developer of advanced LiDAR sensors for autonomous vehicles. It develops 3D sensors based on solid-state LiDAR technology. It has applications in cars, trucks, drones, ships, trains, and aircraft.
- Feb 2026Series A$575K
- Apr 2022Series A$12M
- Jun 2020Series A$1.8M
- Dec 2018Seed$447K
#2
Series D · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2017 · 137 employees$850Mraised▾
Developer of photonic interconnects and co-packaged optics for AI infrastructure. The company’s technology addresses data center bottlenecks by connecting XPUs and switches. It offers solutions with lane speeds from 56G NRZ to 448G PAM4, bidirectional or unidirectional, and up to 16 wavelengths. The company also promotes open standards to drive adoption of advanced optical interconnect technologies.
- Oct 2024Series D$400M
- Jan 2024Series C—
- Dec 2023Series C$155M
- May 2023Series C$154M
#3
Series C · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2017 · 200 employees$36.7Mraised▾
Lightelligence (a spin-off from MIT) is developing optical chips and software solutions for artificial intelligence based computing. The company aims to develop integrated photonics chips for processing and computing machine learning and deep learning algorithms. It claims that its products will have multiple features including high speed, low latency, and low power consumption. Partners include Baidu Ventures, MIT, and NVIDIA.
- Sep 2025Series C$210M
- Jul 2020Series A—
- Apr 2020Series A$26M
- Feb 2018Seed$10.7M
#4
Series A · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2010 · 7 employees$10.5Mraised▾
Developer of bead-assisted mass spectroscopy technology for proteomics. The company has developed a tool called BAMS (bead-assisted mass spectroscopy), which can be used to directly monitor key proteins and sites to advance drug discovery research and disease biology. It has applications in the production and analysis of microarrays.
- May 2025Grant (prize money)$2.5M
- Jul 2024Grant (prize money)$295.2K
- Sep 2022Grant (prize money)$2.5M
- Jul 2022Grant (prize money)$1.3M
#5
Acquired · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2024$18Mraised▾
Developer of optical quantum interconnects for quantum computers. It provides users with a quantum interconnect company developing universal optical quantum interconnects to bridge the gap to large-scale quantum computers. The company's technology aims to address key challenges related to qubit scaling, enabling scalable quantum computing.
- Jan 2025Series A—
- Nov 2024Series A$18M
#6
Funding Raised · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2023$998.9Kraised▾
Provider of photonic smart coatings and optical simulation software for solar and space applications. It provides SpectraCoat radiation shielding coatings for space photovoltaic panels and thermal/photonic coatings for terrestrial solar efficiency enhancement, plus SpectraCoat AI Studio for multilayer optical coating simulation. It provides spectral management coatings optimizing light transmission for controlled agricultural environments. Technical consulting services are available for coating implementation. The company also offers a photonic simulation platform for optical engineering projects.
- May 2025Grant (prize money)$998.9K
#7
Series A · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2017 · 24 employees$52.2Mraised▾
Developer of wearable platform for providing neuromuscular feedback. The company has developed the first musculoskeletal diagnostics decision support system that can accurately pinpoint the source and severity of an injury while showing real-time recovery visibility to improve musculoskeletal health at every point of care.
- Aug 2023Series A$25M
- Jun 2021Series A$12M
- Nov 2020Series A$6.2M
- Feb 2020Seed$1.5M
#8
Series B · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2012 · 17 employees$26.4Mraised▾
Provider of IoT-enabled sensor solutions for wind turbines. It uses smart sensors, optimization algorithms, M2M communication, and IoT cloud computing to make the turbine more efficient. It has developed a platform that analyzes how wind farm operators measure and utilize the wind to maximize performance while protecting major components from damage.
- Jul 2023Series B$9M
- Feb 2022Series B$4M
- Apr 2020Series B$10M
- Feb 2020Series A$5.3M
#9
Series B · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2009 · 5 employees$79.9Mraised▾
Provider of microelectromechanical system-based microphones. Its MEMS-based microphones use proprietary materials and designs to directly convert sound pressure waves into electrical voltage. It has applications in mobile phones, headphones, smart homes equipment, security products, and portable devices.
- Sep 2021Series B$18M
- Apr 2021Series B$8M
- May 2018Series B$31.9M
- Dec 2016Series A$19.4M
#10
Acquired · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 1991 · 606 employees$68.1Mraised▾
Creation Technologies, Inc. provides electronic manufacturing services in North America and internationally. The company offers product design and new product introduction services; environmental compliance services; lean operations comprising board-level manufacturing, systems integration, and test strategy and development; supply chain leverage services; and after-market services. It serves companies that require start-to-finish manufacturing and supply chain solutions in industrial and instrumentation, medical, communications, computers and multimedia, transportation, defense and environment, and security industries.
- Aug 2016PE$75.1K
- Feb 2015PE$15.7K
- May 2014PE$207.4K
- Dec 2012PE$299.7K
#11
Series A · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2015 · 33 employees$6.3Mraised▾
Provider of sweat-based biosensors for monitoring body hydration levels. It provides users with a platform that offers single-use wearable biosensors that monitor body hydration. The platform combines stimuli-responsive hydrogels and nanoscale photonic structures that are micro-environmentally responsive and produce an analogue optical signal.
- Dec 2022Series A$2.8M
- May 2022Seed$1.5M
- May 2021Seed$800K
- Apr 2019Conventional Debt—
#12
Deadpooled · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2005 · 11 employees$15.1Mraised▾
Trutouch Technologies, independent spin off from Inlight Solutions has developed a patented technology to detect alcohol level in workers. Using infrared light company's product detects alcohol out of all other organic compounds that make up the skin of the person touching the sensor. Company's device is biometric based thus providing ease of testing. Particularly useful at construction sites, plant floors, mines and for transport industry.
- May 2017Series B$500K
- Nov 2014Series B$5.2M
- Feb 2013Series B$5M
- Feb 2012Seed$3M
Funding & investor landscape
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- University of Massachusetts Boston6
- Boston Medical Center1
- Boston VA Research Institute1
- Boston Applied Technologies1
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