Venturing

We create and co-create new ventures, and we invest in and accelerate existing ventures.

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Imec’s deep-tech venturing ecosystem

Imec supports ventures across the lab-to-market journey, whether you’re scaling a semiconductor-driven breakthrough or getting your startup and product ready for the market.

Explore our venturing pathways

  1. Through imec.ventures, you gain access to:
  • imec’s world-class research, infrastructure, expertise, and IP
  • IC-Link by imec’s manufacturing services in technologies ranging from CMOS to integrated photonics
  • a global ecosystem of partners, customers, and investors

Through its close integration with imec’s R&D and collaboration models, imec.ventures helps ventures accelerate the development and commercialization of breakthrough technologies.

2. Through imec.istart, you get hands-on business-building support for digital and applied deep tech.

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Discover how we create and co-create new ventures for which semiconductor innovation is key and how we strategically invest in existing around the globe.

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Learn more about how we support early-stage digital and applied deep-tech innovation via business acceleration.

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