There’s a lot of doom and gloom out there for those providing technologies into the electronic design supply chain.  And you hear of VC’s shying away from this field, but there are some out there that are getting funding:

• GateRocket: $3M (Today)
• Nusym Technology: $8M (Last week)
• Envivio: $25M (Last week)
• ChipX: $4M (August)

I know of one more up-and-coming EDA company that closed an undisclosed bridge round in June and is now going through a strategic-investor round B.

Many VC’s suffer from the herd mentality and are solely focused on CleanTech, BioTech and consumer internet.  But there are clearly some that understand the real challenges and opportunities in our industry and see a path to making a return on their investment.

As with other industries, we’ve been heading towards some significant changes for a while.  And for the first time in a long time, it’s not going to be solely a move to a new geometry that’s driving the new challenges.  Financial pressures are weighing on business models and geographic pressures are pushing on the way products are marketed, sold and supported.  Where there are challenges there are opportunities.

We at Xuropa are focused on resolving those business challenges - so you can be rewarded for solving the technical challenges.

If you’re looking for help in getting your technology out to a wider audience and overcoming these challenges, we’d like to hear from you.  Sign-in and click on “become an exhibitor“.

Do you know of anyone else closing funding?

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