Silicon Catalyst Angels is a dedicated funding group created by silicon hardware investors, engineers, executives to accelerate startups in the next revolution in silicon and hardware.
Funding and Fostering the Innovations, Technologies, and Companies that will Improve our Lives
Silicon Catalyst Angels
Experience … The Difference
Silicon Catalyst Angels was spawned from Silicon Catalyst, the world’s only incubator focused exclusively on accelerating solutions in silicon. Silicon Catalyst Incubator / Accelerator was named UBM/Canon’s Startup Company of the Year.
What makes Silicon Catalyst Angels unique is not only our visibility into a semiconductor-focused deal flow pipeline, but our membership is comprised of seasoned semiconductor veterans who bring with them a wealth of knowledge along with their ability to invest. Driven by passion and a desire to ‘give back’, our members understand the hardware space thanks to a lifetime of engagement in the industry. When you couple our members enthusiasm, knowledge, and broad network of connections with companies that have been vetted and admitted to Silicon Catalyst, you have a formula that is to date, non existent within the investment community.
Angel Capital Association -
The North American professional association of active accredited investors provides unparalleled access to trending ideas and professional knowledge to help improve returns and promote effective public policies for angels and startups. Although not a funding source, ACA provides entrepreneurs an inside view into how angels think.
“Demystifying Angel Investment”
Dr. Ron Weissman, a board member of the Angel Capital Association, will be speaking on the topic of “Demystifying Angel Investing”. The open meeting will be followed by a Q&A session with a number of angel investor veterans.
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Silicon Catalyst Angels
PITCH PERFECT
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EVER WONDERED what investors think about your COMPANY and how to SHAPE THEIR IMPRESSIONS?
The proper pitch is fundamental to a startups ability to persuade investors. If you’ve never raised money before, or even if you have, it requires a unique skill set which we can help you with. We call it ‘Pitch Perfect’. We can give you the ability to ‘audition’ before the show, so that your communications skills and confidence will represent the cornerstone of a winning pitch. Getting feedback from investors and understanding what they look for can be instrumental to your long term success.
Silicon Catalyst Angels provides a veritable boot camp where startups learn from our investors how to think, how to act, and how to communicate their value propositions, and how to close. Apply now to receive more information about dates.
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MEMBERSHIP
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ARE YOU INTERESTED IN becomING an active angel investor WITH SILICON CATALYST ANGELS? READ ON.
Silicon Catalyst Angels is looking for members who leverage their networks to source and vet deals, adding value to the group and the portfolio companies we invest in. We are actively growing our membership and welcome your potential involvement. Apply and someone from our organization will contact you. We encourage prospective members to attend meetings and learn about our investment approach and process to ensure a mutually beneficial fit.
An investor/mentor is our ideal candidate. If interested, inquire below.
Powering mmWave Communications
Stopping Network-Based Attacks with Hardware-based Cybersecurity
The world’s most efficient radios for 5G and beyond
The smartest choice for the road ahead
Chipsets, Modules, & Sensor Solutions for BoT & IIoT
Processors for complex video analytics on the Edge
Enabling the next phase of Moore’s Law through optical connectivity
We see the future
Printable battery technology for IoT
Unlocking AI Compute, from the Edge to the Cloud
Applied Brain Research brings AI to reality. ABR has developed brain-inspired, low-SWaP, cognitive, and autonomous AI software and hardware
Edgewater Wireless (TSXV: YFI) is a Canadian semiconductor and intellectual property company that develops next-generation Wi-Fi silicon solutions. Headquartered in Ottawa, the fabless tech firm is best known for pioneering Spectrum Slicing™, an AI-powered physical-layer technology designed to divide a single Wi-Fi frequency band into multiple concurrent channels. Unlike traditional single-channel Wi-Fi architectures that create network congestion as more devices connect, Edgewater’s multi-channel platform (marketed under the PrismIQ™ line) creates a multi-lane highway within a single radio. This drastically reduces latency and boosts network capacity across residential, enterprise, and industrial IoT environments—making it key for Wi-Fi 8 and Ultra High Reliability (UHR) application standards without requiring updates to end-user hardware.
A company as unique as your fingerprint, EXOKĒRYX is using solid-state electronics to power an EV revolution.
Revolutionizing the world of gas sensing
The Neurophos Advantage. Our mission is to deliver AI computation solutions that are not just faster, but denser and more efficient
Enabling the convergence of Sense and Communications
Bioanalytical Solution: bridging biology & AI to improve human health. Move from a reagent-centric to a data-centric approach with our QES technology.
Circular-DNA Technologies for 21st-Century Medicine and Life Sciences
Zero-power sensors with uninterrupted operation and unprecedented accuracy
POLYN is a fabless semiconductor company developing application-specific Tiny AI chips for sensor data pre-processing.
Phosio is developing UV-curable metal oxide precursors, allowing deposition at ultra-low temperatures (as low as 150°C)—a significant improvement over sol-gel methods. PhosioLux® products are compatible with various solution-based deposition techniques, such as spin coating, slot die coating, and ink jetting, enabling rapid deposition at a lower cost compared to vapor deposition methods. PhosioLux® products can be patterned with direct UV exposure or techniques like nanoimprint lithography. This platform technology finds applications in transistors, OLEDs, MicroLED, and AR/VR devices.
Accelerated Computing for Intelligent Robotics
4K-MEMS is a Swiss deep-tech company that specializes in designing ultra-compact, high-intensity broadband infrared (IR) light source micro-chips. Founded in 2020 as a fabless semiconductor developer, the company uses micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) technology, proprietary materials, and wafer-scale manufacturing to create thermal emitters sized down to just a millimeter. By delivering bright, efficient near-infrared (NIR) and short-wave infrared (SWIR) illumination in a tiny surface-mount device (SMD) format, 4K-MEMS replaces large, costly traditional light sources. This miniaturization allows advanced chemical spectroscopy and gas sensing—such as non-invasive health tracking, environmental detection, and material identification—to be integrated directly into everyday consumer electronics, smartwatches, smartphones, and portable medical devices.
SpiNNcloud Systems is a hardware startup that develops ultra-energy-efficient, brain-inspired (neuromorphic) computing infrastructure designed specifically for large-scale AI inference. By leveraging event-based processing and flexible Arm-based chip architectures—such as its flagship SpiNNaker2 chip platform and the upcoming SpiNNext system—SpiNNcloud targets the massive energy bottleneck created by modern generative AI models. Their technology is optimized to run dynamically sparse AI algorithms across massively parallel topologies, offering significantly higher energy efficiency (ranging from 18× to 78× over conventional GPUs) to make high-performance datacenter computing drastically more sustainable and cost-effective. https://spinncloud.com/
RAAAM™ provides the highest-density on-chip memory in any standard CMOS technology with up to 50% area reductionand up to 10X power reduction
Funding and Fostering the Innovations, Technologies, and Companies that will Improve our Lives
Silicon Catalyst Angels was spawned from Silicon Catalyst, the world’s only incubator focused exclusively on accelerating solutions in silicon.
What makes Silicon Catalyst Angels unique is not only our visibility into an exclusive deal flow pipeline, but our membership is comprised of seasoned semiconductor veterans who bring with them a wealth of knowledge along with their ability to invest. Driven by passion and a desire to ‘give back’, our members understand the hardware space thanks to a lifetime of engagement in the industry. When you couple our members enthusiasm, knowledge, and broad network of connections with companies that have been vetted and admitted to Silicon Catalyst, you have a formula that is to date, non-existent within the investment community.
After launching our group in July 2019, we’re pleased to announce that our members have made investments in 21 companies, 19 of which are from the Silicon Catalyst Incubator/Accelerator. The total investment amount by the members now stands at ~$3.5 million.
Interested in joining?
Interested in pitching?
Please contact Laura Swan, VP of Business Operations laura@siliconcatalystangels.com