Hardware & IoT

Synapse Semiconductor

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Overview

We want to push machines to where humans cant go.

Presidential early career award winning Duke Semiconductor ECE Faculty Tania Roy and Sanjeev Chauhan are building a frontier semiconductor research lab. Their focus is on solving physical AI challenges from the semiconductor device level and building products around the moat of impossible to copy innovation. Their first work is on a new vision sensor that can run neural network filters right in the camera pixels and only collect data that machines care about. As physical AI develops, machines needs to understand the world around them if they aim to interact with them.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Sanjeev Chauhan

Founder/CEO

I like to break things and build things 2 IEDM publications, 3 years Seed Stage VC, scaled deaplearning.com to 300k users, Stanford Linear Accelerator National Lab ML Researcher, IPAC 1st Author

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Tania Roy

Founder

Academic by profession, entrepreneur by nature. Love to control the user interface to reality.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
2team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

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Y Combinator

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedDurham, NC, USA
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