Nearfield Instruments
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$527.6M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$380M
Series D · Jun 2026 · 4 mo ago
Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
61
+8 posted in 30 days
Backers
2
Innovation Industries, Walden Catalyst Ventures
The money's age
Fresh money
4 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
25/100
hiring for its size, fresh money
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
Jun 21
Raised a round Series D $380M
Jul 17, 2024
Raised a round Series C $147.6M · led by Temasek · YahooFinance
2016
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 7%
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Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series D | Jun 2026 | $380M | — | morningstar.com |
| Series C | Jul 2024 | $147.6M | Temasek lead, Walden Catalyst Ventures lead | YahooFinance |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | NEARFIELD INSTRUMENTS SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. | registry |
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Innovation Industries 
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How Nearfield Instruments hires
Truth index
B 78/100
Median time to fill
125 days
Ghost roles
28%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Nearfield Instruments scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 61 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 28% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 125 days. 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
News
Nearfield Instruments raises record $380M chip round
Nearfield Instruments has raised $380M at a $1.6bn valuation in the largest deep-tech round in Dutch history, as AI makes chip inspection critical.
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Nearfield Instruments raises $380M at $1.6B valuation to scale AI-era metrology
Nearfield Instruments raises $380M at $1.6B valuation to scale AI-era metrology Nearfield Instruments, a corporations in advanced semiconductor 3D me
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Nearfield Instruments Secures $380 Million Series D Funding in Largest Ever Deep-Tech Funding Round in The Netherlands
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Nearfield Instruments Signs Multi-Year Development Project to Advance Semiconductor Metrology
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Nearfield Instruments Receives Purchase Order for QUADRA High-Throughput Metrology System from Leading Semiconductor Manufacturer in East Asia
ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands, Oct. 20, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nearfield Instruments, a leading innovator in advanced process control metrology solutions, is proud to announce the receipt of a purchase order for its flagship QUADRA High-Throughput Process
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Nearfield Instruments closes $147.6 million Series C funding round
Round was led by Walden Catalyst and Temasek
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Dutch chip manufacturing quality control startup Nearfield Instruments raises €135M
Dutch chip manufacturing quality control startup Nearfield Instruments raises €135M - SiliconANGLE
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Nearfield Instruments secures EUR135 mil in Series C funding
The oversubscribed funding round is led by two new investors, Temasek and Walden Catalyst.
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Nearfield Instruments' QUADRA In-Line Semiconductor Metrology System Features New 'Lightning Mode'; System Fully Validated for High-volume Manufacturing
Lightning Mode boosts image acquisition speed 160-fold over current automated AFM metrologyROTTERDAM, The Netherlands, July 09, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nearfield Instruments B.V., a provider of groundbreaking process control metrology solutions for advan
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Nearfield Instruments' QUADRA In-Line Semiconductor Metrology System Features New 'Lightning Mode'; System Fully Validated for High-volume Manufacturing
Nearfield Instruments launches Lightning Mode for QUADRA, enhancing AFM metrology with over 160-fold speed increase for advanced semiconductor manufacturing.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Nearfield Instruments over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
43
Postings analysed
40
Stack modernity
60/100
Languages
Python55%
MATLAB30%
C#13%
Bash5%
Frameworks & libraries
CUDA3%
Cloud & platforms
Linux13%
Windows13%
Active Directory5%
Ubuntu5%
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Full Nearfield Instruments tech stack
43 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Growth
Hiring Momentum
48/100
Stable
Open positions
61
7 opened / 5 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
91 days
faster than 14% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
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.
Industrial Engineering
30% ▲
Management
15% ▲
DevOps
10% ▼
Administrative
10% ▼
Field & Service
10% ▲
Semiconductors
10% ▲
Actively hiring for Industrial Engineering (+3 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
+5 jobs in a week
Oct 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
9
Hiring now
9
Countries
7
Busiest office
Rotterdam
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Rotterdam
Netherlands
HQ
44 open roles 17 posted in 90 days 27% engineering 7% remote 200-500 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering, Management, Backend
Portland
United States
Plant / site
4 open roles 25% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Backend, HR, Field & Service
Hsinchu
Taiwan
Plant / site
4 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 25% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Backend, Management, Field & Service
Nagasaki
Japan
Regional office
3 open roles 10-50 est. staff
hires for Semiconductors
Pyeongtaek
South Korea
Plant / site
3 open roles 33% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Field & Service, Backend
Singapore
Singapore
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff
hires for Field & Service
Hwaseong
South Korea
1 open roles 1-10 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering
Leuven
Belgium
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering
Minato
Japan
1 open roles 1-10 est. staff
hires for Sales
Jobs
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≈ $52k – $105k per year (Estimated) • In office • 5+ years exp • Rotterdam
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≈ $48k – $105k per year (Estimated) • In office • 3+ years exp • Master's Degree • Leuven
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MATLAB
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≈ $21k – $47k per year (Estimated) • In office • Singapore
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MATLAB
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≈ $23k – $50k per year (Estimated) • In office • Internship • Rotterdam
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≈ $58k – $100k per year (Estimated) • In office • 5+ years exp • Rotterdam
Python
PowerShell
Bash
Ansible
VMWare
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Ubuntu
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Incident Management
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Windows
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