Company Watch

Company: Arteris
www.arteris.com
Funding Raised: $37.3 million
ARM, Ventech, TVM Capital, Synopsys, Innotech, Docomo Capital (NTT Docomo), Crescendo Ventures

Company: D-Wave Systems
www.dwavesys.com
Funding Raised: Over $60 million
International Investment and Underwriting, Harris and Harris Group

Innovation: Developing quantum computers.

Company: Everspin Technologies
www.everspin.com
Funding Raised: $30 million
Sigma Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Epic Ventures, Freescale Semiconductor

Innovation: Magnetic memory chips

Company: Kovio
www.kovio.com
Funding Raised: Over $80 million
Bessemer Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers

Innovation: Printing circuits with silicon ink

Company: Luxtera
www.luxtera.com
Funding Raised: $72.8 million
New Enterprise Associates, Sevin Rosen Funds, August Capital, Freescale Semiconductor

Innovation: Transmitting data faster

Company: Nantero
www.nantero.com
Funding Raised: $31 million
Charles River Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Stata Venture Partners, Harris and Harris Group

Innovation: Using nanotubes to store data

Company: Numonyx
www.numonyx.com
Funding Raised: $150 million
Francisco Partners

Innovation: Nonvolatile phase-change memory

Company: Plastic Logic
www.plasticlogic.com
Funding Raised: $200 million
Dow Venture Capital, BASF Venture Capital, Siemens Venture Capital

Innovation: A novel e-reader

Company: Samplify Systems
www.samplify.com
Funding Raised: $11 million
Charles River Ventures, Formative Ventures

Innovation: Improving communication chips

Company: Tilera
www.tilera.com
Funding Raised: $64 million
Bessemer Venture Partners, Columbia Capital, Quanta Computers, Walden International, Broadcom, Quanta Computer, NTT

Innovation: Multiplying multicore chips