Cavendish Kinetics

company

About

Cavendish Kinetics is a MEMS platform that reduces the cost of incorporating MEMS components into semiconductors.

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Details

Last Funding Type
Series B
Last Funding Money Raised
$15.50M
Industries
Consumer Electronics,Semiconductor,Software,Wireless
Founded date
Jan 1, 1994
Number Of Employee
11 - 50
Operating Status
Active

Cavendish Kinetics is a fabless supplier of tunable components for RF circuits (antennas, power amps, filters) used in cellular handsets, laptops, netbooks, tablets, and other consumer wireless devices.

Cavendish Kinetics' products are designed to address a serious challenge facing the wireless industry: how to pack more features and services into wireless devices without adding radios or increasing the device size.

Cavendish Kinetics has created and honed hard-to-replicate technology based on third-generation RF MEMS expertise and its own innovative semiconductor processes.

By reducing component count, Cavendish Kinetics' tunable RF solutions enable the design of wireless devices with improved RF signaling, which leads to enhanced performance, lower power, and smaller RF systems. As a result, end users enjoy a more satisfying experience with their wireless devices.

Products incorporating Cavendish Kinetics' semiconductor products:

- Improve the voice and web browsing experience for users of today’s 3G and 4G wireless devices.
- Significantly improve the network efficiency of cellular operators by reducing re-tries and dropped-call rates.
- Provide 3G and 4G systems with improved RF signaling, which dramatically increases data throughput and network efficiency.
- Reduce component count, which makes it faster and less expensive to design better-performing wireless devices.

Cavendish Kinetics' roots extend to England’s Cambridge University and the renowned Cavendish Labs, where company co-founder Charles Smith, Ph.D., is a professor with research expertise in sub-micron semiconductor devices.

Cavendish Kinetics has its headquarters in San Jose, California, plus an R&D facility in The Netherlands.

Funding Rounds

Number of Funding Rounds
Total Funding Amount
1
$15.50M
Cavendish Kinetics has raised a total of $15.50M in funding over 2 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on May 1, 2006 from a Series B round.
Announced Date Round Money Raised Number of Investors Lead Investors Post Valuation
May 1, 2006 Series B $15.50M 1 Detail

Investors

Number of Lead Investors
Number of Investors
1
Cavendish Kinetics is funded by 1 investors. Torteval Investments are the most recent investors.
Investor Name Lead Investor Funding Round
Torteval Investments Series B