Best Semiconductors Companies in Seattle, United States
The 34 best Semiconductors companies in Seattle, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Impinj.
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 Seattle
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Impinj RFID solutions for retail, healthcare, consumer electronics and IoT | $132M | 59 mo ago | Public | 306 306 → 451 (+47%) | Carver Mead Co-Founder | Kentico CMSSentryWistia+22 | 504 patents RFID tag ICs and systems for inventory, privacy, and backscatter control | — |
| 2 | Fiber Optic Network Solutions Passive fiber-optic components and interconnect solutions provider | $42M | 308 mo ago | Acquired | 7 | — | MUIYouTubeReact+20 | — | — |
| 3 | Centri Data Compression and encryption based data protection solution | $26M | 146 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | 15 | — | — | 13 patents Network security and remote monitoring solutions for fluid levels and data protection. | — |
| 4 | ThruWave Automated mmWave imaging solutions for quality, security, and process improvement | $9M | 73 mo ago | Seed | 10 10 → 5 (-50%) | — | — | 17 patents 3D millimeter-wave imaging for high-speed anomaly detection and motion estimation in logistics | — |
| 5 | Medsense Provider of medication management and adherence tools | $2M | 33 mo ago | Series A | 1 | — | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+16 | — | — |
| 6 | Somalytics Provider of carbon nanotube-based capacitive touch sensors | $2M | 50 mo ago | Seed | 7 | Jaehyun Chung Co-Founder & CTO | — | — | — |
| 7 | Elarm Home security for connected homes | $2M | 154 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | Danny Pickford Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 8 | Tunoptix Provider of meta optics solutions | $2M | 60 mo ago | Seed | 8 | Karl Bohringer Co-Founder | — | 8 patents Meta-optical lenses enabling compact spectrometers and color-splitting computational imaging | — |
| 9 | Korner Home security through motion detection sensors and a connected app | $2M | 136 mo ago | Deadpooled | 10 | — | — | — | — |
| 10 | Jeeva Wireless Provider of wireless connectivity chips for IoT applications | $1M | 104 mo ago | Seed | 36 | — | — | — | — |
| 11 | MarqMetrix Manufacturer of Raman spectroscopic instruments | $1M | 109 mo ago | Acquired | 30 | — | — | 51 patents Raman spectroscopy hardware and fluidic flow cells for portable analytical instruments | — |
| 12 | NLM Photonics Manufacturer of optoelectronic devices for networking and computing applications | $1M | 22 mo ago | Series A | 14 | Gerard Zytnicki Co-Founder & CEO | WordPress Block EditorWordPressApple iCloud Mail+26 | 7 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 13 | BlueDot Photonics Manufacturer of nanotech-enabled solar panels and photonic devices | $1M | 65 mo ago | Acquired | 2 | Matthew Crane Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 14 | Mobile Semi Developer of low-power embedded memory systems | $512K | 210 mo ago | Acquired | 11 11 → 8 (-27%) | — | — | — | — |
| 15 | Narion Provider of flammability sensors | $498K | 39 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | Eddie Kwon CEO | — | — | — |
| 16 | Impakt Protective Developer of head impact sensors and software | $490K | 163 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | Danny Crossman CEO/CTO | — | — | — |
| 17 | FixturFab Offers PCB designing, fabrication and assembling services | $350K | 37 mo ago | Seed | 8 | Duncan Lowder Founder & CEO | Cart FunctionalityNode.jsRadix UI+20 | — | — |
| 18 | LumiSands Develop silicon nano-materials to replace REE phosphors in LEDs | $180K | 165 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | Chang Ching Tu Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
Top 12 Semiconductors companies in Seattle
#1
Series A · Seattle, Washington · founded 2018 · 14 employees$1Mraised▾
Manufacturer of optoelectronic devices for networking and computing applications
- Dec 2024Series A$8M
- Oct 2023Grant (prize money)—
- Jun 2023Seed$1M
- Jun 2022Seed—
#2
Public · Seattle, Washington · founded 2000 · 306 employees$132.1Mraised▾
RFID solutions for retail, healthcare, consumer electronics and IoT. It offers readers, reader chips and tags for RFID solutions. Their RFID products have high performance and SDK's for direct integration into customers logistics applications.
- Nov 2021Post IPO$250M
- Dec 2019Post IPO$75M
- Jul 2012Series G$21.6M
- Jun 2010Conventional Debt$5.8M
#3
Series A · Seattle, Washington · founded 2018 · 1 employees$2.5Mraised▾
Provider of medication management and adherence tools. Its sensors are attached to the medication containers to transfer the medicine usage data when a user opens the container to take the medications. The tracked data can be shared with family and doctors. Its application also reminds the user for taking medicines at the defined time via notifications, text messages, automated phone calls, and smart speakers.
- Jan 2024Series A$4M
- Dec 2022Seed$1.5M
#4
Acqui-Hired · Seattle, Washington · founded 2009 · 15 employees$25.8Mraised▾
CENTRI provides data security, mobile data optimization (MDO) and bandwidth management solutions for enterprises & government. It offers, BitSmart, a software-only data protection platform that encrypts, secures and optimizes your data. The solution protects the complete lifecycle of the data on the endpoint, in transit and in storage. Its features include light-weight deployment, loss-less data optimization, vault-less key management, additional encryption on top of SSL/TLS with simultaneous encryption & compression. It has won multiple awards including Gartner's cool vendor award (2013), Best Practices Awards by Frost and Sullivan (2017), Security excellence award by IoT Evolution (2017).
- Aug 2014Series C$6.3M
- Oct 2013Series C$13M
- Nov 2012Series B$4.5M
- Apr 2012Seed$1M
#5
Acquired · Seattle, Washington · founded 1992 · 7 employees$42.5Mraised▾
Fiber Optic Network Solutions (FONS) provides passive fiber-optic components and interconnect solutions to the network operators, service providers, and equipment OEMs. Its solutions enable customers to implement FTTH networks. Its products extend for all network areas like central office, customer premises, and LAN. ADC (later acquired by TE Connectivity) acquired the company to strengthen its FTTX product portfolio.
- Feb 2001Series B$27.5M
- Sep 2000Series A$15M
#6
Seed · Seattle, Washington · founded 2017 · 10 employees$8.6Mraised▾
Automated mmWave imaging solutions for quality, security, and process improvement. The company provides innovative solutions leveraging mmWave imaging and AI / machine learning to automate processes across security and e-commerce industries. Their technology enables seeing inside sealed packaging, automatically verifying quality and security concerns in real time at conveyor speeds. The solutions cater to contraband and threat detection in mail services and securities, as well as supply chain and quality control in e-commerce and manufacturing. They offer benchtop, standalone, and integrated inspection systems, easily retrofitting to existing material handling infrastructure. The company designs, builds, and sells proprietary mmWave imaging systems, image reconstruction software, and data analytics software, improving accuracy, efficiency, and safety. This is a tech company offering software and hardware solutions.
- Sep 2020Seed$6.4M
- May 2020Grant (prize money)$739.3K
- 2018Grant (prize money)$225K
- Jan 2018Grant (prize money)$225K
#7
Funding Raised · Seattle, Washington · founded 2020$498.4Kraised▾
Provider of products and systems for fire and gas detection. It provides users with a system to detect and mitigate incidents of a fire or gas leak outbreak. It also provides users with flame detectors, flammability sensors, and gas characterization sensors.
- Jul 2023Grant (prize money)$250K
- Jul 2023Grant (prize money)$248.4K
#8
Seed · Seattle, Washington · founded 2021 · 7 employees$1.9Mraised▾
Provider of carbon nanotube-based capacitive touch sensors. It is paper manufactured and detects human tissue at low latency and high speed. It applies to human-machine-interaction, wearable technology, and eye tracking.
- Aug 2022Seed$1.9M
#9
Seed · Seattle, Washington · founded 2019 · 8 employees$350Kraised▾
Developer of a design platform designed to offer printed circuit board assembly test fixture alternatives to facilitate the process of hardware testing. The company's platform offers alternatives that are for both the development and production fixtures which are offered through a design file package for fabricating clients' own fixture, enabling clients to create and print the components of test fixtures at a fraction of the cost and time.
- Sep 2023Seed$350K
#10
Seed · Seattle, Washington · founded 2017 · 8 employees$1.7Mraised▾
Provider of meta optics solutions. It offers technology for delivering rugged and low-cost optics for machine vision and imaging. It enables modes of information extraction and transformation of image data for digital processing. Its systems use artificial intelligence technology.
- Oct 2021Grant (prize money)$1.5M
- Mar 2021Grant (prize money)—
- Apr 2020Grant (prize money)$223K
- 2017Seed—
#11
Acquired · Seattle, Washington · founded 2018 · 2 employees$1Mraised▾
Manufacturer of nanotech-enabled solar panels and photonic devices. The company offers proprietary technology to create the next generation of solar panels and photonic devices using perovskite materials.
- May 2021Seed$1M
- Feb 2021Grant (prize money)$255.9K
- Oct 2020Seed—
#12
Deadpooled · Seattle, Washington · founded 2001$1.8Mraised▾
Elarm is a provider of sensors and camera for home security and monitoing. Solution consists of a vibration and sudden movements sensor, an environmental sensor, a wide lens HD camera and a base station to transfer and receive data from cloud.
- Dec 2013Angel$825K
- Mar 2012Seed$500K
- Aug 2011Seed$500K
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
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
How research on Semiconductors is moving in the United States
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 8,739 United States-affiliated papers.
- Georgia Institute of Technology489
- IMEC343
- Intel325
- Purdue University West Lafayette218
- Industrial Technology Research Institute177
- Photonics56→121
- Photonic integrated circuit49→81
- Artificial neural network3→29
- Detector25→48
- Scalability53→73
- Photonics45→59
- Artificial neural network2→14
- Rapid single flux quantum2→12
- Detector20→29
- Image sensor2→11
- Photonics10→28
- Hardware security module6→13
- Thermal10→16
- Automotive industry2→8
- Photonic integrated circuit9→14
Where semiconductors is researched across United States
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.
Who's filing semiconductors patents in the United States
United States semiconductors patent filing is cooling — 112,775 filings from 8,000 assignees (2016–2025), led by IBM, Applied Materials, Intel; annual filings 11572→7675.
- IBM19691
- Applied Materials13119
- Intel11689
- Micron Technology10011
- Texas Instruments4804
- LAM RES4667
- Sandisk Technologies3051
- Qualcomm2897
Common questions
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