Swiss nanotechnology startup Chiral has closed a €10 mn Seed round to advance scalable nanomaterial integration for semiconductor and quantum devices.
The round was led by Crane Venture Partners, with participation from Quantonation, HCVC and Founderful, alongside public funding from Innosuisse.
Chief executive Seoho Jung said nanomaterials have delivered strong laboratory results for years, yet industrial impact has been constrained by the absence of scalable, controllable manufacturing.
He argues Chiral’s capabilities convert material breakthroughs into deployable systems, Beinsure noted.
Nanomaterials have shown outstanding performance in research for years, but without scalable and controllable manufacturing, their impact remains limited
Seoho Jung, CEO at Chiral
Founded in 2023, Chiral develops tools and processes for wafer-scale integration of nanomaterials into advanced chips.
The company focuses on enabling post-silicon architectures using materials such as carbon nanotubes and two-dimensional compounds.
Chiral developing manufacturing equipment and processes for integrating nanomaterials into next-generation semiconductor and quantum devices.
Spun out of ETH Zurich and Empa in 2023, it aims to make “post-silicon” chips manufacturable at industrial scale.
As conventional silicon scaling approaches physical and economic limits described by Moore’s Law, industry roadmaps from players including TSMC point toward nanomaterial adoption. Yet large-scale integration has lagged due to contamination risks and process variability.
According to Beinsure, Chiral addresses this constraint with what it describes as the first robotic nanomaterial integration system.
The platform combines automation, high-precision engineering and AI to enable selective, contamination-free placement of nanomaterials on silicon wafers.
The goal is to move from single-device experiments to repeatable wafer-scale manufacturing.
Krishna Visvanathan, co-founder and partner at Crane Venture Partners, said the next shift in computing depends on engineering execution as much as materials science.
The next foundational shift in computing won’t come from materials alone, it will come from making those materials work for real systems and real customers
Krishna Visvanathan, Co-founder and Partner at Crane Venture Partners
“Chiral brings that level of engineering discipline to nanomaterials, and that’s why we believe they have an important role to play in what comes after silicon,” said Krishna Visvanathan.
Since its pre-Seed round two years ago, Chiral has expanded automation and process control capabilities, built its first commercial equipment system and begun installing systems at customer sites.
The new funding will support further deployment and industrialisation of its integration platform.
