Best Semiconductors Companies in Tokyo, Japan
The 170 best Semiconductors companies in Tokyo, Japan in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Japan Display East.
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 Tokyo
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Web popularity | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ADTEC Manufacturer of semiconductor products | — | — | — | Shimots Hiroto CEO & President | WordPressMySQLPHP+12 | Top 5M | 18 patents Rapid detection kits for periodontopathic bacteria in dental diagnostics | — |
| 2 | Advantest Test systems and solutions to semiconductor industry | — | — | 7,092 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+15 | Top 1M | 7,756 patents Semiconductor and electronic device testing equipment, measurement, and defect detection technologies. | 1 partnership · 2 awards |
| 3 | akiba holdings AKIBA Holdings specializes in memory product manufacturing and the sales business. | — | — | 340 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+9 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 4 | Alnair Labs Manufacturer of short pulse and ultrashort pulse solid-state lasers | — | — | — | S. Y. Set CEO & President | WordPressMySQLPHP+14 | Top 10M | 4 patents Patents concentrated in electrical & electronics | — |
| 5 | Alps Alpine Manufacture and supplies automotive and electronic components | — | — | 31,714 | — | Apple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365Salesforce+19 | Top 1M | 3,496 patents Advanced human‑machine interfaces: displays, haptic feedback, acoustic sensing, and control systems. | — |
| 6 | Asahi Kasei Microdevices Semiconductor sensing devices and ICs based on mixed-signal technology | — | — | 4 | Satoru Tamura CEO | Adobe Experience ManagerJavaSalesforce+20 | Top 5M | 1,243 patents Precision analog front‑ends for current, gas, and physical quantity sensing and timing circuits | — |
| 7 | asahi kogyosha Asahi Kogyosha is an air-conditioning and sanitation facilities company. | — | — | 1,087 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+10 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 8 | ATE Service Provider of evaluation and verification solutions, utilizing cutting edge equipment and software to support… | — | — | — | Nobuyuki Kobayashi CEO & President | — | — | — | — |
Top 12 Semiconductors companies in Tokyo
#1
Series B · Chuo, Tokyo · founded 2019 · 37 employees$28Mraised▾
Developer of energy-efficient AI processors, accelerators, modules, cards, and systems. The company offers a software platform facilitating AI inference across heterogeneous systems. Its technology includes a reconfigurable, highly-parallelized architecture. The company's products handle vision tasks and large language models in low-power environments.
- Apr 2026Series B—
- Nov 2025Series B$110M
- Aug 2025Series B—
- Jun 2025Grant (prize money)$21M
#2
Series C · Bunkyo, Tokyo · founded 2021 · 3 employees$9Mraised▾
Manufacturer of crystal film and scanning transmission electron microscope
- Mar 2026Series C$19M
- Mar 2024Series B$9M
#3
Series D · Tokyo, Tokyo · founded 2014 · 205 employees$124.9Mraised▾
Developer of AI infrastructure, foundation models, and product solutions. The company develops AI semiconductors, computing infrastructure, generative AI models, and AI product solutions. It researches and develops new technologies, applying them across industries. The company provides AI products and solutions for various sectors.
- Apr 2025Conventional Debt—
- Apr 2025Series D$35.1M
- Dec 2024Conventional Debt—
- Dec 2024Series D$120.8M
#4
Series A · Tokyo, Tokyo · founded 2022$3.1Mraised▾
Developer of RF-on-glass technology integrated with AI for millimeter wave connections. This technology aims to provide fast, uninterrupted millimeter wave connections. It addresses challenges associated with millimeter wave networks, such as coverage gaps. The technology distributes millimeter wave signals, enhancing network reliability.
- Feb 2026Series A—
- Sep 2024Series A$3.1M
#5
Series C · Bunkyo, Tokyo · founded 2016 · 33 employees$83.2Mraised▾
Developer of cell sorting and single cell profiling platforms. The business provides tools for cell therapy, disease profiling, and drug discovery applications. The platforms combine fluorescence flow cytometry with morphological profiling and artificial intelligence. The business also offers related consumables and instrument services.
- Aug 2024Series C$14.9M
- Nov 2023Series C$24M
- Nov 2023Grant (prize money)—
- May 2021Series B$26M
#6
Acquired · Tokyo, Tokyo · founded 1985 · 1328 employees$6Mraised▾
Toshiba is a Japanese conglomerate working in diversified products. Toshiba's semiconductor portfolio includes memory, ASICs, Sensors, diodes, microcontrollers, logic ICs, and wireless equipment. It can be used in industrial, business, energy, retail, and semiconductors feed.
- Apr 2025Grant (prize money)$1.5M
- Mar 2021Grant (prize money)$365.1K
- Sep 2019Grant (prize money)$1.5M
- Jun 2019Grant (prize money)$339.5K
#7
Series A · Shinagawa, Tokyo · founded 2023$2.4Mraised▾
Developer of attachable Raman sensor technology and AI-driven data analysis. The company provides compact Raman sensors for material measurement and offers AI-powered software for data interpretation. Their products facilitate efficient material analysis across various industries. The sensors integrate into existing systems, enabling streamlined data acquisition and analysis.
- Jul 2025Series A$2.4M
- 2024Seed—
#8
Acquired · Minato, Tokyo · founded 2012 · 4776 employees$1.8Braised▾
Japan Display provides development, manufacture and sale of small-medium displays. Its technology is based on LTPS (Low Temperature Poly-Silicon) LCD. It provides high resolution, low power consumption and thin displays for smartphones, tablets, automotive electronics, digital cameras, medical equipment and other electronic devices. It is the largest supplier of display panels for Apple devices. It was formed as a joint venture of the LCD Display Units of Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi
- Mar 2020Post IPO$200M
- Jan 2020Post IPO$925.9M
- Dec 2016Post IPO$637.2M
#9
Late Stage · Tokyo, Tokyo · founded 2015 · 590 employees$1.4Braised▾
Developer of OLED-based display panels including printed OLED, oxide TFT displays, and flexible displays. Offerings include display panels developed using technologies such as printed OLED, oxide TFT technology (TAOS), and flexible displays. The displays are claimed to have multiple features such as they are foldable, unbreakable, see-through, flexible, transparent, energy efficient, have better image quality and self-luminance, etc. Target markets include smartphones, wearable devices, medical equipment monitors, laptops, computers, etc.
- Jun 2020PE$280.6M
- Apr 2019PE$228.2M
- Aug 2018PE$425.6M
- Dec 2017PE$441.2M
#10
Series E · Tokyo, Tokyo · founded 2014 · 96 employees$49.7Mraised▾
Manufacturer and seller of flexible printed circuit boards intended to offer clients sustainable products. The company's technology prints silver nano ink with an inkjet printer and forms electroless copper plating to manufacture single-sided flexible boards and also develops application products using flexible substrates, enabling clients to make things quickly and in a cost-effective way with sustainable printing technology.
#11
Series D · Minato City, Tokyo · founded 2009 · 74 employees$111Mraised▾
Developer of spectrometry platforms for industrial process control, life science research. The company’s platforms harness spectrometry technologies with advanced analytics to generate actionable results. These platforms apply to applications across multiple industries. The company offers in-situ metrology for semiconductor manufacturing and multiplex testing.
- May 2021Series D$50M
- Aug 2019Series C$33M
- Jul 2016Series B$16M
- Aug 2014Series A$8M
#12
Series D · Kodaira, Tokyo · founded 2011 · 14 employees$14.1Mraised▾
Floadia Corporation develops embedded non-volatile memory IP products. It uses an innovative approach of using the FN tunneling method for program and erase that reduces power consumption, testing time, and cost. Its IP finds applications in automotive, smartphones, and multi-purpose microcontroller systems.
- Oct 2023Series D—
- Oct 2020Conventional Debt$26.8M
- Oct 2020Series C—
- Jul 2017Series B$14.1M
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 in Tokyo is moving
A read on the academic research around Semiconductors in Tokyo — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 317 papers.
Tokyo's University of Tokyo, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and IBM Research lead optimistic semiconductor research (mean stance 0.56), dominated by 3D IC/TSV and photonic device advancement with minimal concern.
- The University of Tokyo157
- Tokyo Institute of Technology78
- IBM Research - Tokyo37
- Tokyo University of Information Sciences17
- Tokyo University of Science15
- Electrical engineering1→6
- Amplifier1→3
- Standard cell1→3
- Integrated circuit6→7
- Silicon4→7
- Photonics5→8
- Electrical engineering2→4
- Substrate (aquarium)2→4
- Fabrication2→4
- CMOS4
- Optoelectronics3
- Photonics2
- Electronics2
- Electrode2
Common questions
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