TAU Systems
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$27.5M
3 rounds on record
Latest round
$12.5M
Venture round · Mar 2025 · 18 mo ago
Team
23
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +15% in a year
Grants
$86k
1 grant · CORDIS
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1
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Due for its next round
18 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
15/100
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The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jun 1
Won a grant $86k · CORDIS
Mar 28, 2025
Raised a round Venture round $12.5M · SEC Form D
Sep 27, 2022
Raised a round Venture round $15M · Built In
2021
Founded
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grant | Jun 2026 | $86k | — | CORDIS |
| Venture round | Mar 2025 | $12.5M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Sep 2022 | $15M | — | Built In |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | TAU Systems Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Bjorn HegelichExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Jerome PayneExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
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Business News This Week Space-based AI data centers need a different kind of chip 20260911
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Driving laser-powered particle acceleration Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast
This episode features an interesting discussion with Jerome Paye, CEO of laser-powered particle accelerator developer TAU Systems. He has over 20 years of industry leadership and research experience, including as a contributor to the early design of Franc
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UCF, TAU Systems to Collaborate on Space Radiation Testing Platform
UCF is partnering with tech company TAU Systems to test a potentially smaller and more efficient way to simulate radiation in space.
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"Sub-2nm Chips Are Possible With This New Light Source" - Jerome Paye, Chief Executive Officer, TAU Systems
A compact laser-powered accelerator could push beyond current EUV limits, enabling smaller chip features, higher throughput, and more efficient semiconductor
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Laser-driven free electron laser runs for more than eight hours
Laser stabilization system boosts quality of electron bunches
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Photonics Spectra TAU Systems Posts Breakthrough in Laser-Powered Accelerator Operation 20260408
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TAU Systems Demonstrates Stable Laser-Driven Free-Electron Laser Operation for Over Eight Hours
A newly published study in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams details a major milestone in accelerator physics: TAU Systems, working with researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has achieved the first r...
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World's 1st Commercial Laser-Driven Compact Particle Accelerator Technology Could Transform Chip Fabrication Microwave Journal Podcasts
Pat Hindle talks with Herbie Smith of TAU Systems about the the world's first commercial laser-driven compact particle accelerator technology from TAU Systems that could fundamentally transform semiconductor manufacturing economics while enabling the next
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CEO Interview with Jerome Paye of TAU Systems - Semiwiki
Jerome Paye has served as CEO of TAU Systems since late 2025, having joined the company shortly after its founding in 2022 as Chief Operating Officer. In that time, he has helped build TAU Systems into a high-performing team now focused on delivering the
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Particle accelerator technology promises exciting future for lithography
Jerome Paye, CEO of TAU Systems, outlines how the company's compact free-electron laser technology addresses the semiconductor industry
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Bjorn Hegelich
Executive Officer, Director
Jerome Payne
Executive Officer
Lukasz Gadowski
Director
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Austin
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About TAU Systems
10-50 est. staff