# Femtosense

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/femtosense

- Industry: Hardware
- Headquarters: San Bruno, US
- Website: www.femtosense.ai
- Total disclosed funding: $8M
- Latest round: Series A (Sep 28, 2022)
- Investors on record: 7

## About

Based in California, US, and founded in 2018, Femtosense operates as an artificial intelligence-based service provider for key markets including wearables, hearing aids, wearables, residential/commercial security, etc. The company was founded by CEO Sam Fok. In September 2022, Femtosense raised USD 8 million in series A funding led by Fine Structure Venture, J2 Ventures, and Quest Venture Partners. The company plans to use the September 2022 funds to increase its production to meet future requirements.

It uses spare mathematics and processing to bring large-scale real-time artificial intelligence use for application in various electronic devices such as hearing aids, security, wearables, etc. The company offers software tools that develop compressed sparse models in frameworks such as TensorFlow. It also has a software development platform named femtostack SDK. This platform offers tools, a custom compiler, and a fast model performance simulator. The technology is used in speech/audio and NLP.

As of 2022, the company is planning to widen the application of its technology to vision and audio which includes features like object tracking, face detection/ID, etc.

## Funding rounds

- Series A, Sep 28, 2022, $8M — Quest Venture Partners, Sand Hill Angels, Amino Capital, Gaingels, J2 Ventures, Fine Structure Ventures, SV Pacific Ventures

## Investors

- Quest Venture Partners (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/quest-venture-partners) — Series A
- Sand Hill Angels (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/sand-hill-angels) — Series A
- Amino Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/amino-capital) — Series A
- Gaingels (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/gaingels) — Series A
- J2 Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/j2-ventures) — Series A
- Fine Structure Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/fine-structure-ventures) — Series A
- SV Pacific Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/sv-pacific-ventures) — Series A