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Nearfield Instruments
Nearfield Instruments brings together the most creative minds in science and technology to develop, produce and market revolutionary high throughput scanning probe microscopy systems, enabling…
Nearfield Instruments
Nearfield Instruments brings together the most creative minds in science and technology to develop, produce and market revolutionary high throughput scanning probe microscopy systems, enabling…
TL;DR
Founded: January 2016 as a TNO spin-off (Delft, Netherlands)
Flagship product: QUADRA — in-line, high-throughput 3D scanning-probe/AFM metrology at atomic-scale resolution
Latest major funding: €135 million Series C closed 2024-07-18 (led by Walden Catalyst and Temasek)
Investor base: Backed by strategic and institutional investors including Temasek, Walden Catalyst, M&G Investments, Invest-NL, Innovation Industries, ING, Samsung Venture, Eugene, and TNO
Market focus: Semiconductor process-control metrology for advanced chipmakers
Company Overview
Problem Domain
Semiconductor process-control metrology; in-line atomic-scale 3D metrology for advanced semiconductor manufacturing.
Founded
2016
Industry
Semiconductor Manufacturing
Tech Stack
Funding Track Record
€135 million
Co-investor M&G Investments (Catalyst strategy); participation from Innovation Industries, Invest-NL, and ING.
€27 million
Existing investors Invest-NL, Innovation Industries and TNO participated.
€17.5 million
Announced as part of Series B financing.
€12 million
Additional equity investment that brought the Series B round total to €48.5 million.
€10 million
Early investment; TNO remained a shareholder.
Flexible bank financing facility to accelerate global expansion and scale production capacity.
Investor Signal
“Backed by a mix of strategic, institutional and deep-tech investors, including Temasek, Walden Catalyst, M&G Investments, Invest-NL, Innovation Industries, ING, Samsung Venture Investment Corporation, Eugene Investment & Securities, and TNO.”
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