Imec has taken a major step in widening its global venturing footprint with the launch of a dedicated imec.ventures presence in the United States, establishing teams in Silicon Valley and on the East Coast. The move reflects imec’s ambition to accelerate the creation and scaling of semiconductor deeptech ventures by deepening its links with the U.S. innovation and investor ecosystem.

This expansion comes at a time when advanced semiconductor and nano-technology research is moving faster than ever, but the journey from lab breakthrough to commercial product remains difficult. Start-ups in this space often face a familiar set of hurdles: limited access to specialized infrastructure, insufficient roadmap visibility, early-stage funding gaps, and the absence of a strong support system to help them grow with confidence. imec.ventures is being positioned as a direct response to that challenge.

Built on more than 40 years of leadership in advanced semiconductor R&D, imec.ventures is designed to help ventures move beyond research and into real-world scale. Its model combines strategic, non-cash support with imec’s technology expertise, intellectual property, world-class infrastructure, and access to a broad international ecosystem. In practice, this means ventures can benefit from hands-on prototyping support, low-volume manufacturing services, and direct engagement with partners and investors.

• What makes imec.ventures stand out is that it does not focus only on funding. Instead, it supports two paths at once: helping promising existing ventures scale faster, and co-creating new ventures or spin-offs based on imec research or in collaboration with leading universities and research centers.
• That combination of venture building, deep technology insight, and ecosystem access gives the platform a distinctive role in the semiconductor innovation landscape.
• The U.S. presence is also intended to strengthen relationships with venture capital firms across the Atlantic. By placing teams in Silicon Valley and on the East Coast, imec.ventures is making it easier for founders to connect with investors, customers, and strategic partners in one of the world’s most important technology markets.
• For deeptech companies, that proximity can be a real advantage, especially when scaling requires both technical depth and commercial momentum.

Imec.ventures sits within imec’s broader venturing framework, alongside imec.istart, its startup accelerator focused on digital innovation and applied deeptech, and imec.xpand, the independent venture capital fund focused on transformative semiconductor and nanotechnology companies. Together, these initiatives create a layered support structure for ventures at different stages of growth.

According to imec, the real measure of success is not geography or market category, but ambition, team quality, and the strength of the underlying technology. That long-term mind-set is central to the new U.S. expansion and to the broader vision of building globally scalable ventures around semiconductor innovation.

As the semiconductor industry continues to shape the future of AI, advanced computing, industrial technology, and connected systems, imec’s move into the U.S. signals a stronger push to connect research excellence with venture execution. In a market where deeptech success depends on more than innovation alone, building the right ecosystem may prove just as important as the technology itself.

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