Semiconductors: founders and companies, Skoored

Thesis: Anti Fund — technical founders in robotics, defense, energy, semiconductors. Computed 2026-10-19 04:56 UTC from 111 sector repos, 493 papers, 28 YC companies. Scored where n ≥ 3 observations: 10 of 1824 people, 31 of 88 companies. Everyone else is unscored, not low.

Technical founders

SkoorWho and whyHandle
60
n=4 · c=0.80
Andrew Klofas memo
Sacramento, CA
@aklofas
45
n=3 · c=0.70
Gautam Khosla memo
@GautamTalksDev
35
n=3 · c=0.70
Kaleb Barrett memo
Hudson River Trading · Denver, CO
@ktbarrett
35
n=3 · c=0.70
Atirna memo
@atirna
35
n=3 · c=0.70
Zane Ni memo
@AMD · San Jose, CA
  • +15 commits on 2 semiconductors repos in 90d: lemonade-sdk/lemonade, ROCm/FastFlowLM
  • +10 56 commits in 90d on ROCm/FastFlowLM
  • +10 account created 2026-06, already active in semiconductors
@zaneni6
35
n=3 · c=0.70
Tai An memo
@Anai-Guo
35
n=3 · c=0.70
Henner Zeller memo
München, Germany
@hzeller
30
n=3 · c=0.70
enjoy-digital
EnjoyDigital · France
@enjoy-digital
25
n=3 · c=0.70
Catherine
@SCISemi · UK
@whitequark
25
n=3 · c=0.70
Xander Naumenko
@misprit7

Companies

SkoorWho and whyId
75
n=5 · c=0.90
lemonade-sdk memo
lemonade-sdk
65
n=5 · c=0.90
AMD ROCm™ Software memo
ROCm
50
n=4 · c=0.80
Unified Acceleration (UXL) Foundation memo
United States of America
uxlfoundation
50
n=3 · c=0.70
OpenSparX memo
OpenSparX
40
n=4 · c=0.80
SimanticFall 2026team 4 memo
Waterloo, ON, Canada
yc:simantic
40
n=4 · c=0.80
Synapse SemiconductorSummer 2026team 2 memo
Durham, NC, USA
yc:synapse-semiconductor
40
n=4 · c=0.80
Visibl SemiconductorsWinter 2026team 3 memo
San Francisco, CA, USA
yc:visibl-semiconductors
40
n=4 · c=0.80
Discovered MaterialsSpring 2026team 2 memo
San Francisco, CA, USA
yc:discovered-materials
35
n=4 · c=0.80
CHIPS Alliance
chipsalliance
35
n=3 · c=0.70
k2-fsa memo
k2-fsa
35
n=3 · c=0.70
LambLabsSummer 2026
San Francisco, CA, USA
LambLabs
35
n=3 · c=0.70
BOOM: The Berkeley Out-of-Order RISC-V Processor
Berkeley, CA
riscv-boom
30
n=3 · c=0.70
Glasgow Embedded
GlasgowEmbedded
30
n=3 · c=0.70
XiangShan
OpenXiangShan
30
n=3 · c=0.70
Google
United States of America
google
30
n=3 · c=0.70
OpenHW Foundation
openhwfoundation
30
n=3 · c=0.70
probe.rs
probe-rs
30
n=3 · c=0.70
Verilator
verilator
30
n=3 · c=0.70
Stellon LabsSummer 2025team 2
San Francisco, CA, USA
Stellon-Labs
30
n=3 · c=0.70
The OpenROAD Project
United States of America
The-OpenROAD-Project
How to read it. A Skoor is 0 to 100, additive: each line is a signal that fired, with its weight under this thesis and a link to the evidence. n is the count of distinct observations; below three the Skoor is null and the row is not on the board. c is confidence, 0.4 + 0.1 per observation, capped at 1. Signals come from GitHub (activity, ownership, contributions, star counts sampled daily), arXiv (authorship, code links in abstracts), and the Y Combinator directory (batch, team size, hiring). Star timelines are not public on GitHub as of October 2026, so velocity uses commits and daily snapshots, never reconstructed history. Weights are the fund's to edit:
bio.company_stealth 10
bio.founder_language 20
profile.followers_1k 5
profile.new_account_high_output 10
repo.core_committer 10
repo.multi_sector_committer 15
repo.owner_active 15
repo.owner_recent_breakout 25
repo.stars_per_month_high 10
research.lab_to_industry 10
research.recent_author 8
research.recent_first_author 15