xMEMS Raises $21 Million Series D

<p><strong>SANTA CLARA<&sol;strong> &&num;8212&semi; xMEMS Labs&comma; Inc&period;&comma; the inventor of the world’s first piezoelectric MEMS &lpar;piezoMEMS&rpar; µCooling fan-on-a-chip thermal management solution and the leader in solid-state silicon speakers&comma; has closed a &dollar;21 million Series D funding round&period; The round was led by Boardman Bay Capital Management &lpar;BBCM&rpar;&comma; with participation from Cloudview Capital&comma; CDIB-TEN Capital&comma; Harbinger Venture Capital&comma; SIG Asia Investments&comma; an affiliate of Susquehanna International Group &lpar;SIG&rpar;&comma; and other strategic investors&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The new capital will accelerate mass production and global commercialization of xMEMS’ piezoMEMS-based loudspeakers and micro-cooling chips – two innovations that directly address the fundamental design and performance constraints impacting the next generation of AI-enabled consumer devices&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This fundraise comes at a moment of rapidly accelerating commercial momentum&comma;” said Joseph Jiang&comma; CEO and Co-Founder of xMEMS Labs&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Leading consumer device makers are all confronting the same challenge&colon; how to deliver the performance AI demands while also achieving size&comma; weight&comma; thermal management&comma; and audio quality goals&period; Our piezoMEMS platform solves this&period; With the support of Boardman Bay Capital Management and our investors&comma; we’re expanding manufacturing and fueling the next wave of piezoMEMS innovation&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;xMEMS is at the heart of a significant shift in hardware design driven by AI&comma;” said Will Graves&comma; Chief Investment Officer at Boardman Bay Capital Management&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Their technology directly addresses key pain points for today’s AI devices – managing heat&comma; conserving space&comma; and delivering crystal-clear audio in increasingly compact and powerful products&period; We believe piezoMEMS will be a foundational building block for the AI hardware era&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>xMEMS has pioneered a new category of semiconductor technology&colon; piezoMEMS&comma; a monolithic MEMS platform that leverages thin-film piezoelectric materials to deliver performance previously unachievable at such small scales&period; Unlike legacy coil motor speaker and fan components&comma; piezoMEMS speakers and micro-coolers are fully solid-state&comma; enabling a leap forward in performance&comma; reliability&comma; and form factor – critical to enabling thinner&comma; lighter&comma; and higher-performing edge AI products&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Over the past year&comma; xMEMS has brought to market two flagship product families built on this breakthrough platform&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul class&equals;"bwlistdisc">&NewLine;<li>Sycamore&comma; the world’s thinnest and lightest high-fidelity MEMS loudspeaker&comma; designed to deliver rich&comma; full-range sound in ultra-slim form factors like AI glasses&comma; headphones&comma; and smartwatches&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>µCooling&comma; the industry’s first chip-scale&comma; solid-state air-moving solution&comma; providing silent&comma; vibration-free active thermal management in space-constrained devices such as AI glasses&comma; smartphones&comma; and SSDs&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p>Together&comma; these innovations are transforming how device makers solve for rising compute loads&comma; thermal budgets&comma; and audio clarity in AI-native product designs&period; Many of the world’s leading consumer technology companies are now engaging xMEMS as they architect their next-generation AI devices&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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