PsiQuantum Valuation, Funding & Investors

Photonic is a Vancouver-headquartered company constructing a networked quantum computing platform using optically-linked silicon spin qubits. Its technology integrates photonics connectivity over telecom-band fiber for scalable, fault-tolerant quantum modules and networking.

GTA Semiconductor is a China-based developer of semiconductor chips. The company conducts research and design for integrated circuits, producing power devices, power management ICs, and sensor chips applied in industrial control, automotive electronics, electricity distribution, and energy sectors.

Lightmatter is a Boston-headquartered designer of photonic computing chips that accelerate matrix multiplications for AI inference and training using silicon photonics. The Passage interconnect links GPU clusters with optical switches, while Envise processors target data center workloads in cloud and telecom sectors.

SiFive designs customizable RISC-V processor cores and IP for embedded systems, IoT devices, automotive, and datacenter applications. Its Freedom platform includes microcontrollers, high-performance CPUs, and vector extensions with associated EDA toolchains. Santa Clara-headquartered SiFive licenses cores to Samsung, Western Digital, and Andes Technology. Founded in 2015, the company shipped over a billion RISC-V cores by 2023, powering chips from Qualcomm and NVIDIA partners.

Sunrise is a Shenzhen-based developer of high-performance GPUs for AI training, edge computing, and graphics processing. The company designs chips like the Sunhope series with up to 512 tensor cores, targeting data centers and autonomous vehicles. Manufacturing through TSMC processes, Sunrise supplies modules to Chinese hyperscalers and exports to Southeast Asia. Founded in 2018, it competes in the domestic semiconductor market amid US export restrictions.

Etched is a semiconductor startup building specialized application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) designed exclusively to run transformer-based artificial intelligence models. Founded in 2022 and headquartered near Cupertino, California, the company aims to disrupt general-purpose GPU infrastructure by offering massive performance and power efficiency gains for large language model inference.

SemiDrive is a Nanjing-based developer of automotive processors for ADAS, autonomous driving, and smart cockpits. Its X9H series supports L2+ autonomy with 8-core ARM Cortex-A and NPU delivering 4 TOPS, manufactured on SMIC 16nm. The company supplies chips to Chinese OEMs like Great Wall Motor and BYD for domain controllers.

XLMEC is the brand of Chongqing Xinlian Microelectronics Co., Ltd., a fabless designer of automotive-grade integrated circuits headquartered in Chongqing. It develops power management chips, sensor interfaces, and MCUs for electric vehicles and ADAS systems via xlmec.com. Certified to IATF 16949 standards, the company supplies tier-1 automakers in China's new energy vehicle sector.

D-Wave Quantum Inc is in the development and delivery of quantum computing systems, software, and services, and it is the commercial supplier of quantum computers and the only company building both annealing quantum computers and gate-model quantum computers. It delivers customer value with practical quantum applications for problems as diverse as logistics, artificial intelligence, materials sciences, drug discovery, scheduling, cybersecurity, fault detection, and financial modeling. Its annealing quantum computers are accessible through the company's LeapTM cloud service.

Nord Quantique is a Sherbrooke-based quantum computing company developing second-generation processors using bosonic codes for error correction. The firm targets fault-tolerant systems for applications in cryptography, optimization, and simulation. Its technology integrates superconducting circuits and photonic interfaces, with prototypes tested in Canadian research labs.

Core Scientific Inc is engaged in designing, building and operating digital infrastructure for high-performance computing. The business operates in three operating segments; Digital Asset Self-Mining, consisting of performing digital asset mining for the own account, Digital Asset Hosted Mining, consisting of providing hosting services to third parties for digital asset mining, and HPC Hosting, consisting of providing hosting services to third parties for graphics processing unit (GPU) based HPC hosting operations. The majority of revenue is derived from the Digital Asset Self-Mining Segment.

Neuralink is a neurotechnology company founded in 2016 by Elon Musk and a group of scientists and engineers, focused on developing implantable brain–computer interface (BCI) devices. Its primary product, the N1 chip, is surgically implanted into the skull by a precision robotic system called R1, enabling direct communication between the human brain and external computers or devices. The company's stated mission is to address neurological conditions such as paralysis, blindness, and severe motor impairments, allowing patients to control digital devices using thought alone. In January 2024, Neuralink implanted its first BCI device in a human patient, with the individual subsequently demonstrating the ability to control a computer cursor through neural signals. Headquartered in Fremont, California, the company operates at the intersection of neuroscience, robotics, and semiconductor engineering, and has attracted significant attention for its long-term ambitions around human-AI symbiosis.

Positron is a provider of specialized hardware accelerators for transformer model inference in generative AI applications. Its chips deliver high-throughput processing with reduced power usage compared to GPU alternatives. The platform supports every model in the Hugging Face Transformers library and exposes an OpenAI-compatible API endpoint. Developers deploy custom-trained models directly onto Positron hardware for edge and cloud deployments in natural language processing and computer vision tasks.

SambaNova is a Palo Alto-headquartered enterprise AI company providing full-stack solutions from Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit silicon like the 2023 SN40L chip to software platforms including Samba Cloud for instant inference on models such as Llama and Qwen, SambaStack for on-premise deployments, and SambaManaged for efficient data center AI services deployable in 90 days.

Ricursive Intelligence is a frontier AI lab founded in December 2025 by former Google DeepMind researchers Dr. Anna Goldie and Dr. Azalia Mirhoseini that automates and accelerates semiconductor design through a self-improving recursive loop. By building platforms that use artificial intelligence to design next-generation silicon chips—which in turn provide the advanced compute needed to train more powerful AI models—the company aims to shift the semiconductor industry toward a "designless" paradigm that bypasses traditional hardware bottlenecks on the path to artificial superintelligence.

Kunlun Chip operates as Baidu's dedicated AI semiconductor division. Beijing-based Kunlunxin designs processors such as Kunlun 1 for inference and Kunlun 2 for training, integrated into Baidu Cloud and PaddlePaddle deep learning platform. The chips deliver performance for computer vision, natural language processing, and recommendation systems in data centers.

WinWay Technology Co Ltd is an IC testing interface supplier. It provides services to various fields, including semiconductors, optical, information technology, and optoelectronics. Its main products and services include Test Sockets, Contact Elements, Probe Cards, and others from which key revenue derives from Test sockets. Geographically, the company has a presence in Taiwan, America, China, Asia, Europe, and Canada where it generates the majority of its revenue from China.

Empyrean Technology Co Ltd is engaged in the development, sales, and related services of EDA tool software for integrated circuit design and manufacturing. It also provides technology development and foundry design enablement services, serving the IC design, manufacturing, and packaging sectors.