Startup Funding: February 2021
In February, several startups emerge from stealth, with one company working on AI inference architectures for the data center and another trying to make lenses thinner by patterning surfaces with tiny structures. Two new Chinese companies are trying to expand the country’s semiconductor design ecosystem with GPUs and interface IP. Plus, a maker of AI chips for ADAS draws another massive round this month as we take a look at 22 startups that collectively raised over $1.2B.
Semiconductors & design
GPU startup
Moore Threads raised an undisclosed amount of pre-A Series funding (stated as billions RMB 1.0B RMB is about $155M) led by
Dutch battery tech scale-up E-magy, a designer and manufacturer of nano-sponge silicon material for advanced lithium-ion batteries (earlier post), has secured an additional €5 million of funding. SHIFT Invest, an impact venture capital fund that invests in circular technologies, smart food & ag-tech, bio-based innovations and smart materials, led the.
Brussels sprouts market improves, kale s selling steadily, and celeriac s doing unusually well
Dutch open field vegetable trading is going quite well at the moment. These include Brussel sprouts and curly leaf kale. Sprout sales were a bit down for a fortnight. But the market s picking up again now. There s quite a bit of export supply of other products on the market. Supermarkets are, however, currently selling a lot of cooking vegetables. People are eating in this festive season, says Mike Glas from Glas Groenten in the Netherlands. In England, Brussel sprouts have been on Christmas menus for many years. There aren t even that many festive sales planned for these. I just hope normal sales will still get a boost. Sprout prices are actually just a little too low. For the curly leaf kale, we ve fixed prices for the whole season. Celeriac sales are also going well. They ve been good for the last two weeks, concludes Mike.