Semiconductor Startups – Are they back?

Semiconductor startups used to rule the roost in Silicon Valley. Not so much in the last 10 years. But in the last few years, we have seen a slow but steady resurgence of semiconductor startups and witnessed blockbuster financing and acquisitions.

MFV Partners’ new investment – Agility Robotics

Today, we welcome our newest addition to MFV Partners’ portfolio – a bipedal, humanoid Robotics company, Agility Robotics. We are delighted to join DCVC, Playground Global, TDK Ventures and others in the company’s $20M financing round. And this marks our second investment in Robotics. Robotics has been around for decades – but it has found […]

Investments in Edge AI and Quantum Computing

Explosive growth in the digital world has been driven by rapid advances in computing — from Microprocessors to Digital Signal Processors to GPU’s and FPGAs to low power cores. Moore’s law has rightly predicted our ability to keep pushing the frontiers of computing using advances in semiconductors. Computing has expanded its footprint beyond the traditional definition of […]

It’s Time to Go After Industry Verticals

Why Today’s Most Disruptive Startups are Taking a Vertical Perspective The most disruptive technologies today are horizontal platforms — computing, the Internet, CRM systems, databases, social media, mobile technology, the cloud revolution, payment gateways… Even in their incubatory stages, they became platforms that could be applied to just about any industry vertical — Retail, Manufacturing, […]