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Inversion Semiconductor

Winter 2025 · Active

Manufacturing the most powerful chips, 15x faster

Location: San Francisco, US

Founded: 2024

Team size: 5

About

Inversion Semiconductor is developing the next-generation chip fabrication machine, to create the most powerful chips 15x faster. Our vision is to reshore advanced chip fabrication capabilities in the West. We're building a lithography machine. Lithography uses light to pattern circuit features on silicon. We're scaling transistors to their physical limits by shrinking particle accelerators 1000x, to create a high power light source. Using our light source we will double transistor density for a given numerical aperture and 3x throughput.

Founders

  • Rohan KarthikFounder

    Co-founder & CEO of Inversion Semiconductor (W25), developing next-gen semiconductor lithography machines. Masters in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London & Royal Academy of Engineering awardee. Previously automated chip design at Arm and led the Karman Space Programme to build record-breaking high power rockets.

  • Daniel VegaFounder

    Co-founder & CTO of Inversion Semiconductor (W25), developing next-gen lithography machines. Masters in Applied Physics from University College London, with a focus on applications of particle physics. Previously created novel ML models for stability optimization of tabletop particle accelerators at CERN, and developed particle accelerators for cancer treatment at Lumitron Technologies