Innovating together for a better world.

Our Mission

Create value and
foster mutual growth
and benefits

We aspire to work closely with brilliant entrepreneurs and disruptive ideas, harnessing our global reach to create value and foster mutual growth and benefits. Among the many advantages our founders enjoy are shared resources, financing, networking, corporate development, and mentorship from our domain experts.

Our Approach

Leveraging the World's largest platform

Big ideas need to achieve big scale. That’s why Samsung Catalyst Fund leverages Samsung’s industry leadership and product breadth to identify, invest in, and work with innovative startups whose disruptive technologies have the potential to make the world a better place—helping people everywhere lead happier, healthier, richer lives.

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    Fuel new business creation

    Samsung Catalyst Fund views startups as more than simply avenues for financial returns. Entrepreneurs in our portfolio get an inside track to Samsung's future growth, helping create new generations of cutting-edge business success.

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    Strive towards co-prosperity at a global scale

    Aspiring to socially and environmentally responsible corporate citizenship, Samsung Catalyst Fund views investment success in terms of co-prosperity. That means a win for us, a win for our portfolio companies, and a win for our partner investors, startups’ customers, and the communities in which we live and work.

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    Aim to be transparent and nimble

    Samsung Catalyst Fund is a U.S.-based fund that invests globally—fully owned by Samsung Electronics with a charter to make independent investment decisions and assume fiduciary responsibility to our portfolio companies. This structure allows the Samsung Catalyst Fund team to make rapid and transparent investment decisions while helping our portfolio companies both inside Samsung and externally.

Our Focus

Enabling life changing technologies

We believe that technology is about more than just sending faster text messages or getting better online shopping recommendations. Samsung Catalyst Fund is committed to investing in technologies—and the people bringing those technologies to market—able to deliver tangible benefits to society and to the world at large. Our sectors of interest span multiple domains including data center and cloud, artificial intelligence, networking and 5G, automotive, sensors, quantum computing and beyond.

Portfolio

We are proud to work with innovative companies driving the future of technology forward.

Ada is a global health company founded by doctors, scientists, and industry pioneers to create new possibilities for personal health.

Ada Health
digital-health

Afero enables companies from any industry to rapidly deploy and manage IoT services for connected devices.

Afero
digital-health

Autotalks helps reduce collisions on roadways and improve mobility with its automotive qualified chipsets.

Autotalks
automated-mobility

AvicenaTech provides chiplet interconnect solutions using novel optoelectronics, providing game-changing improvements in interconnect density, throughput, length and power consumption.

Avicena
cloud-infrastructure

Axelera AI is the leading provider of purpose-built AI hardware acceleration technology for AI inference, including computer vision and generative AI applications.

Axelera AI
ai-chip

Axiado aims to secure the end-to-end digital infrastructure by embedding a new breed of hardware-anchored AI-driven platform security in servers, 5G and network infrastructure.

Axiado
core-tech

Celestial AI provides very high capacity photonic interconnect fabric technology for the datacenter and cloud.

Celestial AI
cloud-infrastructure

ClearML is a pioneer in deep learning & machine learning software tools. With Allegro AI, businesses are able to bring to market and manage higher quality products, faster and more cost effectively.

ClearML
ai-software

Commsignia develops V2X solutions supporting smart city deployments and autonomous vehicle functions with its sensor data sharing middleware and applications.

Commsignia
automated-mobility

DreamBig Semiconductor provides comprehensive low cost, low latency and high throughput solutions for AI, Datacenters, 5G and Automotive Markets.

DreamBig Semiconductor
cloud-infrastructure

Eliyan develops semiconductor interconnects to enable high-performance and low-power chiplet-based systems.

Eliyan
cloud-infrastructure

Empower Semiconductor was founded to solve fundamental problems in power delivery for data-intensive applications.

Empower
core-tech

Exits

Acquired by
Stellantis

AImotive delivers AI-powered enablement of Level 5 self-driving vehicles, to rapidly meet the needs of billions of people all over the world.

AImotive
automated-mobility
Acquired by
Mantis Vision

Alces Technology uses its high-performance 3D Depth Sensors for embedded applications including facial recognition and object scanning.

Alces Technology
ai-chip,automated-mobility,core-tech,cloud-infrastructure,digital-health,lp-fund-investments
Acquired by
PacBio

Apton Biosystems has developed a high-throughput, low-cost sequencing platform that will revolutionize the availability and affordability of genetic analysis.

Apton Biosystems
digital-health
Acquired by
Continental

Argus provides comprehensive automotive cybersecurity solution suites to protect connected cars and commercial vehicles against cyberattacks.

Argus
ai-chip,automated-mobility,core-tech,cloud-infrastructure,digital-health,lp-fund-investments
Acquired by
Cisco

BabbleLabs enhances understanding by people and machines in business-critical audio and video content, services, and devices by providing powerful, AI-based speech software solutions.

BabbleLabs
ai-chip,automated-mobility,core-tech,cloud-infrastructure,digital-health,lp-fund-investments
Acquired by
Forcepoint

Bitglass' Next-Gen Cloud Security solutions offer granular data protection, zero-day threat protection, robust identity and access management, and complete visibility on any app or device

Bitglass
ai-chip,automated-mobility,core-tech,cloud-infrastructure,digital-health,lp-fund-investments
NASDAQ
BZAI

Blaize is a new-generation computing company that optimizes AI at scale wherever data is collected and processed from the edge to the core.

Blaize
ai-chip
Divested

Bossa Nova is a leading provider of real-time, product data for the global retail industry

Bossa Nova
Nasdaq
CRDO

Credo (CRDO) has a mission is to deliver high-speed solutions to break bandwidth barriers on every wired connection in the data infrastructure market.

Credo
ai-chip,automated-mobility,core-tech,cloud-infrastructure,digital-health,lp-fund-investments
Acquired by
VMWARE

Datrium is the leader in unified hybrid cloud computing and data management, helping enterprises run and protect business critical workloads.

Datrium
ai-chip,automated-mobility,core-tech,cloud-infrastructure,digital-health,lp-fund-investments
Acquired by
Microsoft

Fungible is a stealth start up, creating a hardware + software platform for data centers.

Fungible
cloud-infrastructure
Divested

German Bionic’s smart Cray X power suit combines human intelligence with machine power by actively supporting or enhancing the wearer’s movements, thereby reducing the risk of workplace accidents and strain-related illnesses.

German Bionic

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Locations

San Jose, CA, USA

3655 N 1st St, San Jose, CA 95134

Seoul, Korea

1, Samsungjeonja-ro, Hwaseong-si, Gyeonggi-do

Tel Aviv, Israel

121 Menachem Begin, Tel Aviv

Submit your pitch deck!

We’re always looking for the next great idea. Contact our team for instructions on how to submit your pitch deck.

catalyst@samsung.com