FEMTOSENSE
Edge AI · Processors, MCUs & AI Chips
5open roles
$8Mlatest round · Venture round · Sep 2022 · 4 yr ago
3backers · Fine Structure Ventures, Quest Venture Partners
$1.6Mgrants · 4 grants · CORDIS
Overview
Embedded AI platform built upon a unique AI accelerator capable of delivering higher performance at lower latency, using less energy in smaller silicon.
How FEMTOSENSE hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
FEMTOSENSE scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 5 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Funding and backers
Total raised
$8M
5 rounds on record
Latest round
$8M
Venture round · Sep 2022 · 4 yr ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
5
open roles
Grants
$1.6M
4 grants · CORDIS
Backers
3
Fine Structure Ventures, Quest Venture Partners
The money's age
Long since its last round
49 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
15/100
in the news
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Apr 1
Recognition Femtosense wins Startup Terrace Award at InnoVEX 2025 Pitch Contest · femto.ai
Jan 17, 2025
Won a grant $75k · CORDIS
Jun 13, 2024
Won a grant $1.3M · CORDIS
Dec 12, 2023
Won a grant $75k · CORDIS
Aug 29, 2023
Won a grant $175k · CORDIS
Sep 28, 2022
Raised a round Venture round $8M · TechCrunch
2018
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grant | Jan 2025 | $75k | — | CORDIS |
| Grant | Jun 2024 | $1.3M | — | CORDIS |
| Grant | Dec 2023 | $75k | — | CORDIS |
| Grant | Aug 2023 | $175k | — | CORDIS |
| Venture round | Sep 2022 | $8M | — | TechCrunch |
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Fine Structure Ventures 
Quest Venture Partners 
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
28/100
Slowing
Open positions
5
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
AI/ML
60% ▼
Hardware
20% ▼
Industrial Engineering
20% ▼
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at FEMTOSENSE over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
13
Postings analysed
5
Stack modernity
69/100
Languages
Python
C++
SystemVerilog
VHDL
Frameworks & libraries
Apache TVM
MLIR
PyTorch
XLA
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News
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AI Accelerator
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
2
Busiest office
San Bruno
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San Bruno
United States
HQ
Address
4 open roles 100% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for AI/ML, Hardware
903 Sneath Ln #123, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA
Seoul
South Korea
1 open roles 10-50 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering