Walden Catalyst Ventures

"Generative AI will be bigger than the internet," according to Lip-Bu Tan, Founding Managing Partner of Walden Catalyst Ventures, in a conversation with Ritu Singh on CNBC-TV18. Lip-Bu is bullish about the deep tech sector and emphasizes the essential qualities that entrepreneurs and businesses need to succeed. Enjoy the interview!

We are thrilled to announce our investment in Nearfield Instruments , a leader in Metrology & Inspection (M&I) solutions for semiconductor manufacturing. Nearfield has closed a €135 million Series-C funding round, led by Walden Catalyst Ventures, Temasek, M&G Investments and existing investors. Why Nearfield? The semiconductor industry faces challenges in producing smaller, advanced, energy-efficient chips. Nearfield’s QUADRA 3D metrology system offers essential non-destructive, high-throughput, high-resolution metrology capabilities that are essential for next-generation chip production. We’re proud to be part of CEO Hamed Sadeghian and his team's journey and look forward to the many groundbreaking innovations that lie ahead of us. 👉Read the full post here: https://lnkd.in/eD3qxwWw with: Hamed Sadeghian, Roland van Vliet, Mark Lamers RC, Young Sohn, Francis Ho, Nicolas Autret, Shankar Chandran, Lip-Bu Tan, Zachary Webb, Russell Tham, Rinke Zonneveld, M&G Investments, Nard Sintenie, Roni Hefetz, Andy Kau #Semiconductors #Innovation #Metrology #Investment #TechAdvancement #FutureOfTech #NearfieldInstruments #SeriesCFunding

Congratulations to Puneet Kumar, Mark Hayter, Belli Kuttanna, and the whole Rivos Inc. team on closing an oversubscribed $250M Series A round! "Rivos is betting on demand from AI users that don’t need the costliest and most powerful chips from the likes of Nvidia Corp. to run their services. The company targets customers using data analytics and generative AI, seeking to capitalize on the rising popularity of AI following the advent of ChatGPT." “We can target potentially smaller installations where Nvidia might seem like an overkill from a cost perspective,” RiVos co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Puneet Kumar said in an interview. “We can go in with a solution that works well enough and can compete quite well.” The Walden Catalyst Ventures Team, and especially our Founding Managing Partner Lip-Bu Tan, Founding Chairman of RiVos and early backer, are proud to accompany Rivos throughout its journey. with: Lip-Bu Tan, Young Sohn, Shankar Chandran, Francis Ho, Andy Kau, Nicolas Autret, Roni Hefetz, Victoria Slivkoff

Congratulations to Voltron Data for being named on the CB Insights AI 100 List, highlighting its commitment to Accelerated Computing in AI! with: Joshua Patterson Lip-Bu Tan Shankar Chandran Young Sohn #AI #acceleratedcomputing

Congratulations to the MindsDB team for being named to Fast Company's list of the World's Most Innovative AI Companies of 2024! with: Adam Carrigan Jorge Torres Shankar Chandran Young Sohn

Opaque Systems introduces a revolutionary product for GenAI security, enhancing AI deployment security by prioritizing data privacy and integrity, tackling critical adoption challenges👇 “Opaque Gateway allows the enterprise to control data privacy, security and sovereignty while also providing the flexibility to adapt GenAI implementations as the model landscape continues to evolve – this is helping companies to get into production faster,” said Chief Executive Aaron Fulkerson. “The new service offers confidential computing at its core, with all data remaining encrypted in use, not just in storage and transit, to ensure the highest level of confidentiality. A complete audit log is also produced with a hardware root of trust verifying data privacy, security and sovereignty.” Dive deeper into how Opaque is pioneering a safer AI future. https://lnkd.in/eJcte4fe #AISecurity #DataPrivacy #genai

Walden Catalyst Ventures Founding Managing Partner Lip-Bu Tan joined the 2024 International Solid-State Circuits Conference - ISSCC for a keynote: Fueling Semiconductor Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Next Decade Lip-Bu Tan gave a comprehensive overview of the future of semiconductor technology, focusing on the interplay between innovation and entrepreneurship: - The current state of the semiconductor industry, - the role of entrepreneurship in driving innovation, - and the potential future developments in this field. Enjoy the keynote below👇 https://lnkd.in/erBj9D8j #semiconductor #innovation #entrepreneurship

We at Walden Catalyst Ventures are proud to welcome Clarity to the family and support its mission to fight deepfakes through detection👇 with: Michael Matias Roni Hefetz Lip-Bu Tan Young Sohn Shankar Chandran Andy Kau Francis Ho Nicolas Autret Victoria Slivkoff Bessemer Venture Partners Secret Chord Ventures, Ascend Ventures Flying Fish Partners

Join Walden Catalyst Ventures Founding Managing Partner Young Sohn during ‘State of Dutch Tech: Think Big. Act Together.’ on March 6th in The Hague! 🇳🇱 with: Eva De Mol Ph.D Techleap Constantijn Van Oranje-Nassau Peter Wennink Nicolas Autret Francis Ho Shankar Chandran

Congratulations to the ArteraAI team for securing additional $20 million in capital 👇 with: Andre Esteva, PhD Lip-Bu Tan Young Sohn Shankar Chandran Nicolas Autret Francis Ho Andy Kau Roni Hefetz Victoria Slivkoff