Best Semiconductors Companies in Center District, Israel
The 36 best Semiconductors companies in Center District, Israel in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Vayyar.
Our analysis of 219 Semiconductors companies
$47.9b in tracked funding; 70% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Semiconductors companies in Center District
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founder | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vayyar 🦄 Developer of 4D imaging sensors for cancer detection and other devices | $296M | 51 mo ago | 330 | Raviv Melamed Co-Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 2 | Innoviz Developer of LiDAR sensors and perception software for autonomous vehicles | $252M | 87 mo ago | 468 | — | — | 1 launch · 3 partnerships |
| 3 | Valens Provider of communication ICs for HD connectivity | $167M | 94 mo ago | 313 | Gideon Ben-Zvi CEO | — | 1 launch · 1 award |
| 4 | Altair Developer of LTE chipsets 62Funding top 21%Growth top 30%Market top 38%Moat top 39% All 7 signals ▾Fundingtop 21% Growthtop 30% Markettop 38% Moattop 39% Newstop 44% Globalbottom 38% Techbottom 28% Funding: Raised $124M across 7 rounds · 7 rounds over 21 yrs (0.3/yr) Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 62/100 | $124M | 4 mo ago | 154 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Celeno Provides high performance WiFi chips and software | $116M | 92 mo ago | 170 | — | — | — |
| 6 | DustPhotonics Provider of silicon-based photonic ICs | $82M | 30 mo ago | 50 | Ronnen Lovinger Chief Executive Officer | 28 patents Precise laser chip alignment and integrated photonic waveguide coupling for optical modules | — |
| 7 | PowerDsine Power over LAN and solutions for IP Telephony | $64M | 197 mo ago | 136 | — | 69 patents Power over Ethernet (PoE) management, backup, and redundancy for networking hardware | — |
| 8 | DuneNetworks Manufacturer of fabless semiconductors | $53M | 208 mo ago | 17 | — | — | — |
| 9 | Wintegra Network processors for backhaul equipments | $41M | 248 mo ago | 165 | Kobi Ben-Zvi Founder & CEO | 2 patents Optimizing dynamic bandwidth and timer control in AAL2 ATM voice/data multiplexing. | — |
| 10 | DesignArt Networks Programmable SoC and embedded SW, 4G Infrastructure products | $30M | 223 mo ago | 51 | Oz Barak Co-Founder & CEO | 76 patents Wireless broadband network infrastructure, femtocell deployment, and access point planning systems. | — |
| 11 | MultiPhy DSPs for high speed optical communicatiions | $24M | 128 mo ago | 36 | Dan Sadot Founder | 44 patents High‑speed data converters, optical fiber dispersion compensation, and error‑correction for digital communications | — |
| 12 | ClariFruit Developer of app-based quality control software for fruits and vegetables | $16M | 46 mo ago | 33 | Ruby Boyarski Co-Founder and CTO | 12 patents Digital imaging and sensor-based quality assessment of fruits and vegetables | 1 partnership |
| 13 | Percello Femtocells solutions | $12M | 216 mo ago | — | — | 36 patents Patents concentrated in electrical & electronics | — |
| 14 | Nano Dimension Cloud-based precision additive manufacturing systems and nano inks for electronics | $5M | 84 mo ago | 564 | Simon Fried Unicorn Co-Founder & Board Member | 238 patents Patents concentrated in transport & manufacturing processes | — |
| 15 | Eltav Wireless valve monitoring solution | $4M | 241 mo ago | — | Coby Hasson CEO | — | — |
| 16 | PrintCB Provider of advanced copper materials for copper printing and coating | $100K | 117 mo ago | 4 | Steve Daren Co-Founder | 17 patents Printable conductive inks for flexible electronics and printed circuit manufacturing. | — |
Top 12 Semiconductors companies in Center District
#1
Acquired · Hod Hasharon, Center District · founded 2005 · 154 employees$124Mraised▾
Altair is a fabless semiconductor company that is a developer of LTE chipsets. The company's product portfolio consists of LTE for IoT, broadband LTE, and supercharged LTEs. Altair LTE chipsets are used by OEM/ODM of devices like tablets, netbooks, Chromebooks, mobile hotspots, USB dongles, routers, and M2M applications. Verizon Wireless has certified Altair to operate on its 4G LTE network. Altair's chipsets are used by Verizon to power their Ellipsis 7 tablet and are at the core of HP Chromebook 11 LTE.
- Apr 2026Series D$50M
- Nov 2014Series D—
- Mar 2014Series D$25M
- Jul 2013Series D$25M
#2
Acquired · Modi in Maccabim Re ut, Center District · founded 2017 · 50 employees$82Mraised▾
Provider of silicon-based photonic ICs. It manufactures the optical transceivers and optical cables for multiple applications including cloud, data centres, HPC, and enterprise networks. The product line of the company includes multiple kinds of optical transceivers that operate at a certain power supply and are used for data transmission over multimode fibre optic cable up to a certain distance.
- Feb 2024Series B$24M
- Oct 2021Series B$33M
- Sep 2019Series B$25M
- Jan 2019Grant (prize money)$526.5K
#3
Vayyar 🦄Series E · Yehud, Center District · founded 2011 · 330 employees$296Mraised▾
Developer of 4D imaging sensors for cancer detection and other devices. It offers a hand-held screening device that generates high-resolution 3D images that detect breast cancer by using radio frequency technology. Also, it develops touchless fall detection for seniors. It provides various products for multiple industries such as retail, public safety, robotics, and smart buildings.
- Jun 2022Series E$108M
- Nov 2019Series D$109M
- Dec 2017Series C$45M
- Dec 2015Series B$22M
#4
Public · Rosh Haayin, Center District · founded 2016 · 468 employees$252Mraised▾
Developer of LiDAR sensors and perception software for autonomous vehicles. The company provides long-range and short- to mid-range LiDAR products. It offers perception software and smart applications for security, mobility, aerial robotics, and traffic intelligence. The company's products are designed for integration into autonomous driving systems.
- Jun 2019Series C$38M
- Mar 2019Series C$132M
- Oct 2017Series B$8M
- Sep 2017Series B$65M
#5
Acqui-Hired · Ra anana, Center District · founded 2005 · 170 employees$116.2Mraised▾
Celeno Communications is a fabless semiconductor company developing subsystems and components for carrier-class WiFi systems and networks. Its technologies including WiFi doppler imaging, elasticMIMO, cloud analytics and control, hardware and software solutions enable wireless networking by delivering high definition entertainment and multimedia content. It has solutions in multiple sectors including smart home, city, building, mass transit, education, industry, and broadband service provider.
- Jan 2019Series F$10M
- Sep 2016Series F$38M
- Sep 2012Series E$24M
- Nov 2010Series D$12M
#6
Public · Hod Hasharon, Center District · founded 2006 · 313 employees$167Mraised▾
Provider of communication ICs for HD connectivity. It develops microchips to enable HD devices, which allows for plug-and-play real-time digital connectivity & wireless data transmission between ultra-HD video sources and remote displays. Its product is complementary to the HDMI standards, while acts as an alternative to RF, coaxial cable, S-Video, SCART, or VGA. It caters to audio-video and automotive sectors.
#7
Series A · Ness Ziona, Center District · founded 2016 · 33 employees$15.5Mraised▾
Developer of app-based quality control software for fruits and vegetables. It provides end-to-end quality control solutions. It has a web-based management dashboard to view all the information about products and customer shipments at a glance and also it provides a big data analytics platform that offers trends and business intelligence to assist in decision-making.
- Nov 2022Series A$12M
- Jun 2020Grant (prize money)$2.5M
- Jan 2020Grant (prize money)$2.5M
- Jan 2020Seed$3.5M
#8
Acquired · Hod Hasharon, Center District · founded 1994 · 136 employees$64Mraised▾
PowerDsine was a semiconductor and systems company which invented Power over Ethernet's precursor Power over LAN. Products included PoE Injectors, test equipment, and ICs. Its initial offerings were ringing generators and xDSL Remote Power Feeding Modules. The company's products are widely used in communications equipment manufacturers in the telecom and datacom industries.
- Mar 2010Post IPO—
- Feb 2002Series E$30M
- Mar 2000Series D$28M
- Sep 1998Series C$6M
#9
Acquired · Hod Hasharon, Center District · founded 2000 · 17 employees$53Mraised▾
Manufacturer of fabless semiconductors. It offers networking devices for data centers and Ethernet switching platforms. It facilitates facilitate the building of data center, enterprise, and carrier Ethernet switching platforms.
- May 2009Series B$8.3M
- Jan 2008Series B$12M
- 2007Series B$7.5M
- Aug 2005Series A—
#10
Acquired · Ra anana, Center District · founded 2000 · 165 employees$41Mraised▾
Provider of access processing semiconductors and software for telecommunication infrastructure solutions. The company's products include access processors; reference boards for software development; and Data Path Software. It offers network processors and production grade software solutions for communication applications, such as DSL; PON; 2G, 3G, and LTE wireless infrastructure; carrier Ethernet; and WiMAX.
#11
Acquired · Ra anana, Center District · founded 2006 · 51 employees$30Mraised▾
Provider of silicon for 4G infrastructure products. The company offers software-defined SoC platforms for compact base stations (Enterprise Femto/Pico/Micro), Remote Radio Heads (RRH), Backhaul links (NLOS, Microwave and E-Band) and relay equipment.
#12
Deadpooled · Ness Ziona, Center District · founded 2007 · 36 employees$24.2Mraised▾
Manufacturer of digital-signal-processing-based integrated circuits designed to serve high-speed networks. The company's semiconductor (CMOS) chips are used for direct detection and coherent transmission solutions and it also specializes in communications theory, optical communications and algorithms development, as well as analog, digital and mixed-signal CMOS VLSI design, enabling companies to pass large amounts of data through optical networks fast and efficiently setting new benchmarks for cost and performance.
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
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Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Semiconductors is moving in Israel
A read on the academic research around Semiconductors — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 139 Israel-affiliated papers.
- Technion – Israel Institute of Technology27
- Bar-Ilan University22
- Tower Semiconductor13
- Ben-Gurion University of the Negev12
- Intel11
- Standard cell1→5
- Transistor1→4
- Integrated circuit5→6
- Electronic circuit4→6
- Electronic circuit6
- Integrated circuit5
- CMOS5
- Transistor5
- Reliability (semiconductor)4
Where semiconductors is researched across Israel
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Common questions
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