Cypress Semiconductor

Cypress Semiconductor

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Overview

Cypress Semiconductor operates as a semiconductor company in the United States and internationally. It delivers various high-performance, mixed-signal, and programmable solutions. Its products include programmable system-on-chip products, capacitive sensing, and touchscreen solutions, universal serial bus controllers, wirelessUSB, CyFi low-power radio frequency, programmable clocks, and buffers. Cypress Semiconductor also offers communication products, peripheral controllers, dual-port interconnects, programmable logic devices, and power PSoC, as well as line of switches, cable drivers, and equalizers for the professional video market. Moreover, it provides peripheral bridge controllers, dual-port memories, physical layer devices, and programmable logic devices. Further, it designs and manufactures SRAM products and nonvolatile memories that are used to store and retrieve data in networking, wireless infrastructure and handsets, computation, consumer, automotive, industrial, and various electronic systems, as well as provides image sensor products that are used in industrial, medical, and aeronautic applications. Additionally, Cypress Semiconductor offers a wireless pneumatic thermostat that enables remote temperature sensing and control; a wireless gauge reader, which clips onto the face of existing gauges to capture and transmit data; a wireless steam trap monitor that detects leaks and failures; a wireless transducer reader, which provides energy-use characterization and baseline data for audits; and optical navigation sensors. It serves consumer, computation, data communications, automotive, medical, and industrial markets. The company markets its products through direct sales force, distributors, trading companies, and representative firms.

Highlights

Founded

1982

Industry

Telecommunications

Employees

1001-5000

Investment

6

Lead Investment

1

Exits

3

Stages

Late Stage Venture, Early Stage Venture, Seed

Investor Type

N/A

Location

San Jose, California, United States, North America

Contact Information

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Profile Resume

Cypress Semiconductor, established in 1982 and headquartered in United States, North America., specializes in Late Stage Venture, Early Stage Venture, Seed investments across Information Technology, Telecommunications, Communications Infrastructure, Manufacturing, Wired Telecommunications, Venture Capital, Software, Semiconductor, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Product Design. The organization boasts a portfolio of 6 investments, with an average round size of $28.6M and 3 successful exits. Their recent investments include Alvesta, Enterprise Partners, Intel, Quantum Technology Ventures, SpectraLinear. The highest investment round they participated in was $8.8B. Among their most notable exits are Alvesta and Enterprise Partners. Explore their portfolio in detail, see who is connected to them, and find their contact information on our platform.

Employees

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Thurman Rodgers

Founder, President & CEO

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Stephan Rosner

Vice President, Software and Systems Engineering

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Daniel McCranie

Member of the Board of Directors

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Chris Cook

SVP, Chief Marketing Officer

Investment portfolio

Cypress Semiconductor has made 6 investments. Their most recent investment was on Apr 06, 2016, when Enovix raised $100.0M.

investments

6

Diversity investments

0

Lead investments

1

Number of exits

3

Investments

6

Annouced DateOrganization NameIndustryMoney Raised
Nov 05, 2001
Alvesta Alvesta
Information Technology12.0M
Jun 12, 2006
NanoNexus NanoNexus
Hardware32.0M
Dec 19, 2006
SpectraLinear SpectraLinear
Electronics6.4M
Apr 06, 2016
Enovix Enovix
Energy100.0M

Exits

3

Funding Timeline

Funding rounds

6

Investors

2

Funds

0

Funding Rounds

6

Cypress Semiconductor has raised 6 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Apr 06, 2016 from a Venture Round - Enovix round.

Annouced DateTransaction NameNumber of InvestorsMoney RaisedLead Investor
Nov 05, 2001
Series C - Alvesta Series C - Alvesta
-12.0M-
Jun 12, 2006
Venture Round - NanoNexus Venture Round - NanoNexus
-32.0M-
Dec 19, 2006
Series B - SpectraLinear Series B - SpectraLinear
-6.4M-
Apr 06, 2016
Venture Round - Enovix Venture Round - Enovix
-100.0M-

Investors

2

Cypress Semiconductor is funded by 2 investor(s). Sequoia Capital and Mayfield Fund Kantor are the most recent investors.

Fund raised

2

Susa Ventures has raised a total of $590M across 6 funds, their latest being Susa Ventures Opportunities II. This fund was announced on Aug 30, 2021 and raised a total of $250M.

Annouced DateFund NameMoney Raised
May 10, 2013
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1.0M
May 11, 2013
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1.0M

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