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Best Semiconductors Companies in North Brabant, Netherlands

The 52 best Semiconductors companies in North Brabant, Netherlands in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: SMART Photonics.

52companies tracked
$513.4Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
10have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · SEMICONDUCTORS × NORTH BRABANT

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.

219companies analysed
70%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
13unicorns
2017median founding year
2.2Mcombined LinkedIn audience
93%of audience held by top 3
5companies hiring publicly (12 mo)

Ranked: Best Semiconductors companies in North Brabant

#CompanyLast roundDisclosed fundingEmployeesFounderTech stackWeb popularityPatents & IP focusRecent signals
12M Systems
Developer of structural health monitoring and seismic monitoring solutions
———Michael Walters
Co-Founder
——84 patents
Solid-state DC circuit protection and distribution solutions for data center power systems
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2Adveda
Developer of tools for hardware and software co-verification
———Cor Schepens
CEO
————
3Aerasense
Scientific instruments to monitor ultrafine nanoparticles.
———Frans van Houten
CEO
————
4Altijd Thuis
Developer of home security solutions
———Bas van der Kolk
Founder
————
5AME
Developer and manufacturer of high quality electronic products
——250—Windows ServerIISCloudflare+11Top 50M——
6crop-sensors.com
Develops camera senors for UAVs
———Ron Breukers
Co-Founder & Executive Director
————
7Ctouch
Large format touch display solutions
——73—Craft CMSPHPYii+25Top 5M2 patents
Touch-enabled display devices with integrated frame-mounted control interfaces
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8D4T Systems
Testing solutions for analog and mixed signal integrated circuits
———Vladimir Zivkovic
Founder
————

Top 12 Semiconductors companies in North Brabant

#1
Series C · Eindhoven, North Brabant · founded 2021 · 130 employees
$120Mraised
▾

Manufacturer of hardware accelerators and software for artificial intelligence inference. Products include processing units designed for edge computing applications, available in various form factors such as cards and boards. The associated software development kit enables the deployment of neural networks on these hardware platforms. These components facilitate data analysis and machine learning tasks for systems requiring local processing capabilities.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 89how this company ranks against its industry peers
News
top 17%
Funding
top 18%
AI
top 20%
Growth
top 25%
Innovation
top 27%
Talent
top 28%
News: 9 BI events in 12 mo (of 37 tracked, 5 types) · +125% YoY · 9 high-value events (IPO/M&A/funding/contracts) in 12 mo
Funding: Raised $120M across 6 rounds · 6 rounds over 5 yrs (1.2/yr) · Last round Series C (Feb 2026)
AI: Classified as an AI company · Holds AI/ML patents (G06N-family CPC) · Product described with: artificial intelligence, machine learning, neural network
Audience (LinkedIn): 44k LinkedIn followers — 2.0% of this cohort's audience
Hiring (LinkedIn): 1 hiring post in 12 mo (public) · hiring: Senior/Staff Engineer - Logical Design
Activity (LinkedIn): 3 product launches · 1 partnerships (incl. DroneStar Project) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Feb 2026Series C$250M
  • Mar 2025Grant (prize money)$65.9M
  • Jun 2024Series B$68M
  • Oct 2023Grant (prize money)—
Founders & team
Evangelos EleftheriouCo-Founder & CTOBram-Ernst VerhoefCo-FounderIoannis PapistasCo-Founder
Investors
Innovation Industries, imec.xpand, SFPI, Verve Ventures, CDP Venture Capital, Bitfury
Tech stack
AlgoliaAmazon CloudfrontAmazon SesAmazon Web ServicesAmerican ExpressAos
#2
Funding Raised · Eindhoven, North Brabant · founded 1993 · 2075 employees
$47.1Mraised
▾

Manufacture of application-specific embedded products. The products include embedded computing systems, motion & mechatronics, power conversion systems, automation & control systems, vision & imaging systems, and environmental sensing products. It also claims to provide technology and manufacturing solutions.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 40k LinkedIn followers
Activity: 1 partnerships (incl. TECHCROSS) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Dec 2025Conventional Debt$46.5M
  • Mar 2023Unattributed—
  • Dec 2020Grant (prize money)$372.3K
  • Mar 2016Grant (prize money)$225.8K
Founders & team
Pieter JanssenCEOHans VerhagenCEO
Investors
Europa, HAL, European Investment Bank
Tech stack
Azure Edge NetworkBootstrapCdnjsChart.JsCloudflareCloudflare Bot Management
#3
Seed · Eindhoven, North Brabant · founded 2017 · 5 employees
$2Mraised
▾

Provider of security solutions for embedded systems. Its main offering is an anti-piracy and software hardening solution that features obfuscation to conceal algorithms and data, anti-tamper, copy protection, and anti-fuzzing. It does not require hardware changes and is compatible with low-power applications.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 40how this company ranks against its industry peers
Talent
top 28%
Growth
top 35%
Tech
top 37%
Funding
top 47%
Global
bottom 39%
Market
bottom 16%
Talent: 4 named leaders on record · 4 C-suite/founder profiles curated
Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo
Tech: 33 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare · Observability: Sentry
Audience (LinkedIn): 2k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Mar 2026Seed—
  • Dec 2023Grant (prize money)$1M
  • Jul 2022Seed$2M
Founders & team
Tim BlazytkoChief ScientistPhilipp KoppeCo-FounderMarc FyrbiakCo-Founder
Investors
TIIN Capital, HTGF, Auriga Cyber Ventures, Europa, Sec Fund, TIN Capital
Tech stack
CloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCookiebotGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Tag ManagerGoogle Workspace
#4
Series D · Eindhoven, North Brabant · founded 2012 · 175 employees
$244.5Mraised
▾

Provides services for manufacturing photonic ICs. The company is a foundry offering production services for Indium Phosphide-based photonic components. They offer the complete production process from epitaxial growth and re-growth, processing, polishing, and dicing of wafers into chips. Some of their offerings include Buried Hetero Technology, Generic Photonic Integration, MPW, and other services.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 26k LinkedIn followers
Hiring: 4 hiring posts in 12 mo (public) · momentum +4 · hiring: Operators in the TU/e Cleanroom, director
Funding rounds
  • Jul 2023Series D$110M
  • 2022Series D$75.2M
  • Dec 2021Grant (prize money)$56.6K
  • Jul 2021Conventional Debt—
Investors
EIC Fund, Europa, Rabobank, ASML, NXP Semiconductors, VDL Groep
Tech stack
Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesApache Http ServerApple Icloud MailBootstrapCloudflare
#5
Series A · Eindhoven, North Brabant · founded 2016
$10.8Mraised
▾

Provider of tools, consumables, and process development services for enabling resolution patterning at the nanoscale level

Founders & team
Rob VoorkampCEO
Investors
Invest-NL, RSBG, BOM, imec.xpand
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailContact Form 7CookieyesCore-JsJqueryJquery Migrate
#6
Series A · Eindhoven, North Brabant · founded 2018 · 17 employees
$8.8Mraised
▾

Developer of spatial atomic layer deposition equipment for thin film application. The company provides tools for designing and mass-producing energy and display devices. Its technology enables deposition of thin, functional layers for fuel cells, batteries, and solar cells. The product portfolio includes laboratory and high-throughput equipment, along with process and application support.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 4k LinkedIn followers
Activity: 1 product launches · 1 expansions announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Nov 2022Series A$5.4M
  • May 2019Series A$3.3M
Founders & team
Huib HeezenCEO
Investors
Innovation Industries, BOM, Air Liquide, Invest-NL, TNO, Somerset Capital Partners
Tech stack
CdnjsCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Font Api
#7
Acquired · Eindhoven, North Brabant · founded 2006 · 76 employees
$45Mraised
▾

Provider of electrowetting screen technology solutions. Based on electrowetting principles, its radical yet simple high valued displays show video content with very low power consumption and offer excellent indoor and outdoor viewability. Liquavistas displays are suited for a wide variety of portable and mobile applications such as portable media players, watches, cameras, phones, DVD players, and automotive applications.

Funding rounds
  • Apr 2010Series D$9.5M
  • May 2009Series C$7M
  • Mar 2008Series B$12.5M
  • Dec 2006Series A$16M
Founders & team
Elias BelmandCEO
Investors
Amadeus Capital, Prime Ventures, Gimv, Applied Materials, New Venture Partners
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpYoutubeYoast SeoPriority Hints
#8
Acquired · Veldhoven, North Brabant · founded 2010 · 50 employees
$11.1Mraised
▾

Experience 3D TV in full freedom. Watch 3D movies or play 3D games without the annoying glasses. Its technology is based on placing a lenticular overlay on an LCD, so that the projected light of the LCD is transmitted in different directions. Thus, the right and left eye of the observer to see different images on the display which are fused by the brain into a 3D perception without the need for any special glasses.

Funding rounds
  • 2022Grant (prize money)$11.1M
Investors
EIC Fund, KPN Ventures, BOM
#9
Seed · Eindhoven, North Brabant · founded 2022
$1.7Mraised
▾

Provider of optical networks for internet

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 1k LinkedIn followers
Hiring: 3 hiring posts in 12 mo (public) · hiring: Office Manager
Activity: 2 expansions announced in 12 mo
Founders & team
Francesco PessolanoCo-FounderWillem Jan WithagenCo-Founder & CTO
Investors
BOM, Rabobank, Provincie Noord-Brabant, Thematische Technologie Transfer, SHIFT Invest, PhotonDelta
#10
Acquired · Eindhoven, North Brabant · founded 2008 · 47 employees
$8.1Mraised
▾

Provider of IP for embedded security. It offers IP for cloud storage, mobile payments, and content protection. Product Dragon QT is an embedded cryptography microprocessor core which claims to deliver tamper proof and physically unclonable hardware intrinsic security for IoT and mobile applications. It performs cryptographic operations without exposing the keys to the host processor eliminating chances of key theft even if the host application processor is compromised.

Funding rounds
  • May 2020Grant (prize money)$56.1K
  • Dec 2019Series A$2.8M
  • Jun 2018Grant (prize money)$2M
  • Mar 2017Grant (prize money)$55.5K
Investors
BOM, Prime Ventures, Robert Bosch Venture Capital, EIC Fund, Europa
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpHashthemes TotalWpmu Dev SmushPopup Maker
#11
Acquired · Eindhoven, North Brabant · founded 1943 · 118 employees
$10Mraised
▾

Manufacturer of optical precision elements and miniature optical modules designed to serve industrial, imaging, display, data and telecom markets. The company produces micro-optics for miniature camera modules, LED optics and laser modules, enabling businesses to allow for extensive miniaturization and subsequent cost savings.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 17k LinkedIn followers
Hiring: 3 hiring posts in 12 mo (public) · hiring: Optical Designer, Productieleider
Activity: 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Founders & team
Gert Jan BloksCEO
Investors
European Union, EIC Fund, BNP Paribas Asset Management, Quest Management, Quest for Growth, Qualcomm Ventures
Tech stack
CdnjsCloudflareCookiebotFont AwesomeGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Maps
#12
Series A · Eindhoven, North Brabant · founded 2017 · 4 employees
$3.5Mraised
▾

SemiBlocks is a semiconductor technology company which develops oscillator solution for multiple applications. Leveraging crystal oscillator technology, its solution eliminates the effect of hysteresis and allows self-sensing to compensate for frequency errors due to temperature variations. It provides OCXO, TCXO and VCXO solutions for smartphone platforms, communication infrastructure & data centres.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 567 LinkedIn followers
Activity: 1 awards announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jun 2018Series A$3.5M
Investors
BOM

Funding & investor landscape

$513.4Mtotal disclosed funding
13companies funded
41disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
BOM14 rounds
Europa10 rounds
EIC Fund5 rounds
Invest-NL4 rounds
Innovation Industries3 rounds
HTGF2 rounds
KPN Ventures2 rounds
PhotonDelta2 rounds
Prime Ventures2 rounds
Rabobank2 rounds

Notable founders

Evangelos Eleftheriou
Co-Founder & CTO · Axelera AI
Bram-Ernst Verhoef
Co-Founder · Axelera AI
Pieter Janssen
CEO · Prodrive Technologies
Hans Verhagen
CEO · Prodrive Technologies
Tim Blazytko
Chief Scientist · Emproof
Philipp Koppe
Co-Founder · Emproof
Rob Voorkamp
CEO · SCIL Nanoimprint Solutions
Huib Heezen
CEO · SparkNano
Elias Belmand
CEO · Liquavista
Francesco Pessolano
Co-Founder · Astrape Networks
Willem Jan Withagen
Co-Founder & CTO · Astrape Networks
Gert Jan Bloks
CEO · Anteryon
Prism market signals · Netherlands · country-scoped Prism corpus, 109,270 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Semiconductors coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

RESEARCH SIGNALS · Netherlands

How research on Semiconductors is moving in the Netherlands

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 610 Netherlands-affiliated papers.

research sentiment over time
201020182026
enthusiastic · positive · guarded tone
Tone is overwhelmingly optimistic and intensifying — the enthusiastic (strongly-positive) share moved 49% → 58% across 2010–2026.
top research entities
  • Eindhoven University of Technology160
  • Delft University of Technology157
  • NXP59
  • University of Twente55
  • Imec the Netherlands36
leading researchers
X.J.M. Leijtens · Said Hamdioui · Kevin Williams · M.K. Smit · Mottaqiallah Taouil · Erik Jan Marinissen · José Pineda de Gyvez · Sylwester Latkowski
▲ Breakthroughs231 · 38%
▲ 32%→43% share
▲1.3× share momentum3 median citations39% since 2021mostly methods-led
Breakthroughs are rising (32%→43% of field), led by Integrated circuit.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Integrated circuit9→24
  • Electronics3→7
  • Microwave1→4
  • Semiconductor device1→4
  • Terahertz radiation1→4
Newly emergingLaser linewidth 0→5 · Substrate (aquarium) 0→5
Landmark Laser-Thinning of MoS2: On Demand Generation of a Single-Layer Semiconductor · 628 cites
◆ Advancements253 · 41%
▼ 48%→36% share
▼0.8× share momentum2 median citations30% since 2021mostly methods-led
Advancements are cooling (48%→36% of field), led by Fabrication.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Fabrication2→4
Landmark Nanoplasmonic waveguides: towards applications in integrated nanophotonic circuits · 636 cites
▼ Concerns69 · 11%
▲ 10%→13% share
▲1.3× share momentum2 median citations39% since 2021mostly empirical
Concerns are rising (10%→13% of field), led by Electronic circuit.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Electronic circuit3→6
  • Integrated circuit6→8
Landmark Introduction to spin wave computing · 331 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · Netherlands

Where semiconductors is researched across Netherlands

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.

Eindhoven255 · +0.54
Hot · PhotonicsAdvancing · Photonic integrated circuitOpportunity · ResistorConcern · Mixed-signal integrated circuit
Delft167 · +0.55
Hot · Reliability (semiconductor)Advancing · CMOSOpportunity · PlanarConcern · Composite material
Groningen17 · +0.73
Hot · Electronic circuitAdvancing · DetectorOpportunity · Capacitor
Amsterdam16 · +0.65
Hot · CMOSAdvancing · Waveguide

Common questions

How many Semiconductors companies are there in North Brabant, Netherlands?
Radar tracks 52 indexable Semiconductors companies headquartered in North Brabant, Netherlands that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Semiconductors companies in North Brabant, Netherlands?
The Semiconductors companies in North Brabant, Netherlands on this list have raised a combined $513.4M in disclosed equity funding across 13 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Semiconductors company in North Brabant, Netherlands?
SMART Photonics is the highest-funded Semiconductors company in North Brabant, Netherlands, with $244.5M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Semiconductors companies in North Brabant, Netherlands are funded?
13 of the 52 Semiconductors companies in North Brabant, Netherlands on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Semiconductors unicorns are there in North Brabant, Netherlands?
None of the Semiconductors companies in North Brabant, Netherlands on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in North Brabant, Netherlands Semiconductors companies?
The most active investors in North Brabant, Netherlands Semiconductors companies on this list include BOM, Europa, EIC Fund, Invest-NL, Innovation Industries.
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