Designs battery-management chips for smart glasses, wearables and other devices with tightly constrained power budgets.
Foothill Ventures
Activity from announced rounds
Foothill Ventures is a Los Altos technology investor whose own site identifies Quintessent and which Overlord names in a seed extension.
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Quintessent develops quantum-dot laser chips for optical interconnects. Overlord develops battery-management chips for small devices, while Nexstrom develops wafer-scale production of atomically thin materials. The financings concern distinct technologies in semiconductor production and operation.
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- 0 4 roles undisclosed
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- 6 First participation on record · 0 follow-on
- Funding in participating rounds
- $228.9M 6 disclosed · full round size, not this investor’s share
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6 in this selectionA semiconductor equipment company developing wafer-scale production of atomically thin materials for chip foundries.
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