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- 135 bear
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Datacentre & AI compute49 theses
- 1Datacentre thermal materials
- Closing
- $19B
- Support 94
- 2Dielectric coolants
- Bear
- Shut
- $2.5B
- Support 94
- 3Liquid metal TIM
- Bear
- Shut
- $538M
- Support 94
- 4In-package cooling
- Early
- $1.1B
- Support 93
- 5Emerging non-volatile memory
- Shut
- $4.8B
- Support 92
- 6Probabilistic computers
- Bear
- Early
- $347M
- Support 89
- 7Beyond-CMOS devices
- Bull
- Reopening
- $3.6B
- Support 88
- 8Datacentre digital twins
- Bear
- Closing
- $36B
- Support 87
- 9CNT thermal interface
- Bear
- Early
- $18B
- Support 86
- 10Metal and solder TIM
- Bear
- Shut
- $1.4B
- Support 86
- 11Rack power delivery silicon
- Bear
- Closing
- $13B
- Support 85
- 12Rack-scale design automation
- Bear
- Closing
- $1.9B
- Support 85
- 13GaN power for datacentres
- Bull
- Closing
- $1.1B
- Support 85
- 14Datacentre thermal and power
- Closing
- $453B
- Support 81
- 15Optical DRAM
- Early
- $247B
- Support 80
- 16Scale-up interconnect
- Closing
- $162B
- Support 80
- 17Small models
- Bear
- Shut
- $18B
- Support 80
- 18Computational CXL memory
- Bear
- Closing
- $12B
- Support 80
- 19Memory disaggregation and storage
- Bear
- Shut
- $7.2B
- Support 80
- 20Low-power edge compute
- Bear
- Closing
- $7B
- Support 80
- 21Optical memory
- Early
- Support 80
- 22Specialised AI compute
- Closing
- $338B
- Support 79
- 23Inference infrastructure
- Bull
- Closing
- $23B
- Support 79
- 24Datacentre scale-out
- Closing
- $235B
- Support 78
- 25AI kernel synthesis
- Bear
- Closing
- $3.1B
- Support 78
- 26Photonic packaging for CPO
- Bull
- Closing
- $29B
- Support 77
- 27Optical circuit switching
- Bear
- Closing
- $25B
- Support 77
- 28Retrieval and memory tier
- Bear
- Closing
- $8.1B
- Support 76
- 29Compute as an asset class
- Bull
- Closing
- $70B
- Support 72
- 30Photonic compute
- Bear
- Shut
- $375M
- Support 72
- 31In-chip microfluidic cooling
- Bear
- Closing
- $3.8B
- Support 69
- 32Optical interconnect
- Closing
- $162B
- Support 67
- 33Decode chips
- Bull
- Closing
- $31B
- Support 63
- 34Data infrastructure
- Bear
- Closing
- $505B
- Support 62
- 35RF waveguide interconnect
- Bear
- Early
- $23B
- Support 62
- 36Agentic compute silicon
- Bear
- Shut
- $16B
- Support 62
- 37AI data supply
- Bear
- Closing
- $28B
- Support 60
- 38GaN-on-si substrates
- Bear
- Shut
- $2.5B
- Support 60
- 39AI accelerator silicon
- Bear
- Shut
- $1163B
- Support 58
- 40Photodetection
- Bear
- Shut
- $9.9B
- Support 58
- 41Photonic light sources
- Bear
- Open
- $72B
- Support 57
- 42Hyperscaler ASICs
- Bull
- Closing
- $84B
- Support 54
- 43Decentralised AI
- Bear
- Early
- $35B
- Support 51
- 44Fog computing middleware
- Bear
- Closing
- $187B
- Support 48
- 45Temporal compute
- Bear
- Shut
- $20B
- Support 48
- 46Converter plane cooling
- Early
- $7.6B
- 47AI thermal substrates >1000 W/mK
- 48AI-hardware circular economy
- 49ML closes the signal-to-noise gap on non-invasive BCI
Semiconductor manufacturing34 theses
- 12D materials
- Bear
- Early
- $9.1B
- Support 92
- 2Electron-informed materials discovery
- Bear
- Shut
- $719M
- Support 92
- 3Back-end wafer prep equipment
- Bear
- Shut
- $3.8B
- Support 88
- 4Hybrid bonding
- Bear
- Shut
- $919M
- Support 88
- 5Legacy assembly
- Bear
- Shut
- $82B
- Support 85
- 6Advanced packaging metrology
- Bear
- Closing
- $12B
- Support 84
- 7Known-good-die test
- Bear
- Closing
- $7.7B
- Support 84
- 8Trailing-edge capacity
- Bear
- Shut
- $83B
- Support 82
- 9Sovereign electronics manufacturing
- Bull
- Open
- $65B
- Support 82
- 10Discovery metrology
- Bear
- Early
- $23B
- Support 82
- 11Ultrapure water and process fluids
- Bear
- $28B
- Support 80
- 12Advanced packaging
- Closing
- $86B
- Support 79
- 13Deposition materials and process
- Bear
- Closing
- $44B
- Support 78
- 14Chiplets
- Bull
- Closing
- $54B
- Support 75
- 15Back-end test equipment
- Bear
- Shut
- $33B
- Support 73
- 16Lithography and patterning
- Early
- $55B
- Support 70
- 17EDA and chip design
- Bull
- Closing
- $62B
- Support 67
- 18Lithography light sources
- Bear
- Early
- $6.7B
- Support 65
- 19Computational lithography
- Bear
- Early
- $2.6B
- Support 64
- 20Semiconductor metrology
- Bear
- Early
- $1.1B
- Support 64
- 21Specialty 3D patterning
- Bear
- Early
- $757M
- Support 62
- 22Photonic test and metrology
- Bear
- Shut
- $3.9B
- Support 58
- 23Nanotube electronics
- Bear
- $333M
- Support 58
- 24High-NA EUV
- Bull
- Shut
- $32B
- Support 56
- 25Beyond-EUV lithography
- Bear
- Shut
- $26B
- Support 56
- 26Photonic foundry capacity
- Closing
- $2.7B
- Support 50
- 27Photonic PDK and EDA
- Bear
- Open
- $1.7B
- Support 46
- 28Photonic multimaterial foundry
- Bear
- Early
- $15B
- Support 44
- 29Perovskite semiconductors
- Bear
- Early
- $5.7B
- 303D heterogeneous integration production roadmap commitment
- 31Ai-eda-verification-wedge
- 32Area selective deposition
- 33EU-sovereign advanced packaging tools
- 34PFAS regulatory ban
Software & applications12 theses
- 1Physics AI
- Bull
- $39B
- Support 86
- 2Autonomous remediation
- Bear
- Early
- $43B
- Support 78
- 3Non-human identity and secrets
- Bear
- Closing
- $38B
- Support 78
- 4Cyber insurance repricing
- Bear
- Shut
- $35B
- Support 78
- 5Software supply-chain integrity
- Bear
- Open
- $31B
- Support 78
- 6Agentic payment rails
- Shut
- $29B
- Support 74
- 7Proof of humanhood
- Bear
- Shut
- $1.8B
- Support 74
- 8AI value capture moves downwards
- Bull
- Closing
- $538B
- Support 62
- 9AI security
- Bear
- Closing
- $27B
- Support 54
- 10AI eats SaaS
- Bull
- Open
- $447B
- Support 51
- 11Agent identity
- Bear
- Shut
- $0M
- Support 49
- 12The convergence of AI agents and commerce
Defence & security14 theses
- 1Counter-UAS effectors
- Bear
- Closing
- $10B
- Support 85
- 2Quantum random number generation
- Bear
- Shut
- $274M
- Support 85
- 3QKD
- Bear
- Shut
- $230M
- Support 85
- 4Confidential computing
- Closing
- $196B
- Support 82
- 5Orbital defence
- Bear
- Closing
- $16B
- Support 80
- 6FHE acceleration silicon
- Bear
- Shut
- $6.8B
- Support 80
- 7Space domain awareness
- Bear
- Shut
- $4.6B
- Support 80
- 8Hardware memory safety
- Bear
- Early
- $380B
- Support 77
- 9High-speed data converters
- Bear
- Early
- $7.8B
- Support 76
- 10Agentic AI security
- Bull
- Early
- $27B
- Support 67
- 11Hardware attestation
- Bear
- Early
- $20B
- Support 66
- 12Defence field robotics
- Bull
- Closing
- $3.7B
- Support 64
- 13Airspace awareness sensing
- Bear
- Early
- $1.4B
- Support 64
- 14Defence mass autonomy
- Closing
- Support 64
Robotics & physical AI13 theses
- 1Edge AI inference accelerators
- Bear
- Early
- $9.6B
- Support 72
- 2High-mix manufacturing automation
- Bear
- Early
- $2.3B
- Support 66
- 3Timing and PNT
- Bear
- Early
- $14B
- Support 64
- 4Teleoperation
- Bear
- Open
- $8.6B
- Support 63
- 5Robot data supply
- Bear
- Early
- $85B
- Support 57
- 6Robot autonomy
- Bear
- Early
- $47B
- Support 57
- 7Tactile sensing silicon
- Bear
- Early
- $21B
- Support 57
- 8Robot foundation models
- Bear
- Shut
- $21B
- Support 57
- 9Hazardous-environment robotics
- Bear
- Early
- $5.5B
- Support 57
- 10Functional safety silicon for robotics
- Bear
- Shut
- $2B
- Support 57
- 11Service robotics
- Support 57
- 12Humanoid actuators
- Bear
- Closing
- $6.6B
- Support 47
- 13Surgical robotics
- Bear
- Shut
- $38B
- Support 44
Healthcare & bio16 theses
- 1Biocomputing
- Bear
- Early
- $11B
- Support 78
- 2Brain-computer interfaces
- Closing
- $12B
- Support 61
- 3Molecular biosensing
- Early
- $5.5B
- Support 61
- 4Metabolic wearables
- Bear
- Early
- $2.1B
- Support 61
- 5Biophotonics
- Bear
- Closing
- $1.6B
- Support 61
- 6Implantable neural electrodes
- Bear
- Closing
- $1.3B
- Support 61
- 7Non-invasive brain measurement
- Bear
- Early
- $24B
- 8Neuromodulation
- Bear
- Early
- $18B
- 9Light-controlled therapeutics
- Early
- $15B
- 10Pharma analytical instrumentation
- Bear
- Early
- $3.6B
- 11Organoid safety testing
- Bear
- Early
- $3.5B
- 12Perovskite radiation detection
- Bear
- Early
- $2.7B
- 13Photopharmacology in scope-reachable tissue
- Bear
- Early
- $96M
- 14Connectomics tooling
- Bear
- Early
- 15Diagnostics and health sensing
- Early
- 16Transcranial focused ultrasound
- Early
Energy12 theses
- 1Grid electrification
- Closing
- Support 94
- 2Fusion
- Bear
- Early
- $14B
- Support 90
- 3Flexible compute as a grid asset
- Bull
- Closing
- $32B
- Support 86
- 4Advanced nuclear SMRs
- Bear
- Closing
- $18B
- Support 86
- 5Solid-state transformers
- Bull
- Closing
- $5.9B
- Support 86
- 6Electrolyser materials
- Bear
- Closing
- $4.1B
- Support 86
- 7Perovskite tandem PV
- Bull
- Open
- $4B
- Support 86
- 8Offshore power islands
- Bear
- Early
- $772M
- Support 86
- 9Next-gen geothermal
- Bear
- Early
- $690M
- Support 86
- 10Next-gen batteries
- Bear
- Early
- $141B
- Support 44
- 11Baseload power
- Shut
- $12B
- Support 22
- 12Glazing-integrated photonics
- Bear
- Closing
- $14B
Industrial11 theses
- 1Distributed fibre sensing
- Bear
- Closing
- $3B
- Support 85
- 2Quantum sensing
- Bear
- Early
- $1.7B
- Support 85
- 3Specialty silicon
- Shut
- $197B
- Support 84
- 4Rare earths
- Bull
- Closing
- $25B
- Support 82
- 5At-line industrial analytics
- Bear
- Shut
- $10B
- Support 61
- 6Mid-IR photonic sensing
- Bear
- Early
- $2B
- Support 61
- 7Thermoelectric materials
- Bear
- Early
- $5.8B
- Support 58
- 8Uncertainty-propagation compute
- Bear
- Early
- $746M
- Support 44
- 9Industrial condition monitoring
- Bear
- Closing
- $13B
- 10Energy harvesting
- Bear
- Shut
- $1.5B
- 11Spectral imaging
- Shut
Space11 theses
- 1European launch
- Bear
- Shut
- $1.9B
- Support 85
- 2Space-based datacentres
- Bear
- Early
- Support 83
- 3SAR and EO satellite data
- Bear
- Closing
- $11B
- Support 80
- 4Smallsat platforms
- Bear
- Early
- $5.8B
- Support 80
- 5Space power electronics
- Bear
- Early
- $1.4B
- Support 80
- 6In-space manufacturing
- Bear
- Early
- $19B
- Support 76
- 7In-space mobility
- Bear
- Early
- $5.6B
- Support 76
- 8Radiation-hardened chips
- Bear
- Shut
- $3.3B
- Support 76
- 9Commercial LEO stations
- Bear
- Early
- $1.8B
- Support 76
- 10Space power beaming
- Bear
- $1.3B
- Support 76
- 11Nanomechanical space systems
- Bear
- Early
- Support 76
Consumer devices7 theses
- 1AR display optics
- Bull
- Early
- $22B
- Support 85
- 2Structured micro-optics
- Bear
- Early
- $4B
- Support 85
- 3Metalenses
- Bear
- Shut
- $920M
- Support 85
- 4MEMS sensing and actuation
- Bear
- Shut
- $42B
- Support 66
- 5Image sensor silicon
- Bear
- Shut
- $1.4B
- Support 66
- 6Ferroelectric memory
- Bear
- Shut
- $9.4B
- Support 58
- 7AR optics test and metrology
- Bear
- Early
- $1.2B
Telecoms & wireless6 theses
- 1Photonic RF signal generation
- Bear
- Early
- $6.9B
- Support 85
- 2Satellite terminal silicon
- Bear
- Shut
- $1.6B
- Support 80
- 3Diamond RF power
- Bear
- Early
- $1.2B
- Support 80
- 4Direct-to-device satellite
- Bear
- Shut
- $28B
- Support 76
- 5RF front-end silicon
- Bear
- Early
- $126B
- Support 67
- 6Industrial wireless IoT
- Bull
- Open
- $11B
- Support 63
Quantum6 theses
- 1Quantum processor hardware
- Bull
- Closing
- $5B
- Support 82
- 2Quantum software
- Bear
- Closing
- $4.9B
- Support 54
- 3Cryogenic computing
- Bear
- Open
- $848M
- Support 54
- 4Quantum memory
- Bear
- Closing
- $196M
- Support 54
- 5Photonic quantum computing
- Bear
- Closing
- $13B
- Support 22
- 6Quantum-sensing-photonic-hardware
Automotive & mobility5 theses
- 1LiDAR and ranging
- Bear
- Shut
- $8.1B
- Support 66
- 2SiC for EV traction
- Bear
- Shut
- $12B
- 3eVTOL
- Closing
- $11B
- 4Automotive zonal power
- Bear
- $6B
- 5Sintered silver die attach
- Bear
- Shut
- $362M
Underneath the theses: the reference, every technology they are built from, entry by entry, and the beliefs they rest on.