{"city":"Bergen","name":"Lace Lithography","slug":"lace-lithography","facts":[{"date":"2026-03-23","type":"pilot","value":"Prototype systems advancing toward a pilot tool inside a chip fabrication facility by around 2029","source":"arcticstartup.com"},{"date":"2026-03-23","type":"partnership","value":"Series A led by Atomico with M12, Linse Capital, SETT, Nysnø, Vsquared Ventures, Future Ventures, Runa Capital and Deep Future","source":"eu-startups.com and arcticstartup.com"},{"date":"2026-03-23","type":"total_funding","value":"Above","source":"eu-startups.com and arcticstartup.com"},{"date":"2026-03-23","type":"funding_round","value":"Series A","source":"eu-startups.com and arcticstartup.com"},{"date":"2023-07-01","type":"revenue_band","value":"pre-revenue","source":"arcticstartup.com"}],"peers":[],"stage":null,"state":"Vestland","aliases":["Lace Lithography AS"],"country":"Norway","domains":[{"why":"Lace Lithography is developing atom-beam lithography systems that use metastable helium atoms for nanoscale patterning in chip fabrication beyond EUV.","list":null,"rank":null,"tier":"watchlist","layer":null,"total":47,"domain":"AI Core","scores":{"leverage":6,"position":6,"progress":8,"firepower":4,"commercial":2,"deployment":2,"production":2,"technology":6},"edition":null,"segment":null}],"founded":null,"signals":[{"date":"2026-06-23","header":"Lace Lithography is developing helium-atom-beam lithography machines for semiconductor fabs.","outlet":"MIT Technology Review"},{"date":"2026-05-11","header":"Lace Lithography raised €34.5 million to develop atom-beam lithography for next-generation chip production.","outlet":"EU-Startups"},{"date":"2026-03-24","header":"Lace Lithography is developing BEUV atom-lithography systems for semiconductor wafer patterning.","outlet":"EU-Startups"},{"date":"2026-03-24","header":"Lace Lithography operates across Norway, Spain, the UK, and the Netherlands.","outlet":"EU-Startups"},{"date":"2026-03-24","header":"Lace Lithography raised €34.5 million in Series A funding.","outlet":"EU-Startups"},{"date":"2026-03-24","header":"Lace Lithography developed an AI-driven algorithm that accelerates lithography mask-design computation by more than 15 orders of magnitude.","outlet":"EU-Startups"}],"website":"lacelithography.com","category":"AI Infra · Semiconductor equipment, materials & critical inputs","categories":[{"name":"Lithography","domain":"AI Core","parent":"AI Infra · Semiconductor equipment, materials & critical inputs"}],"last_round":null,"updated_at":"2026-09-22T22:30:22.235+00:00","facts_total":6,"positioning":"Lace is the only genuinely new entrant in the lithography sub-category, held at early maturity. Its technology replaces photons: a beam of metastable helium atoms, roughly 0.1 nanometres wide against ASML's 13.5 nanometre EUV, patterns the wafer directly. Atoms have no diffraction limit, which the company says allows resolutions up to ten times smaller at lower cost, energy and complexity, integrating into existing foundry workflows rather than replacing them. The hard problem it claims to have solved is mask design, where it says a proprietary AI-driven algorithm accelerates computation by over 15 orders of magnitude. It raised EUR 34.5m (USD 40m) on 2026-03-23 led by Atomico, total funding above EUR 51.7m in under three years, targeting a test tool inside a pilot fab by around 2029. Scale of the target: ASML holds 94 percent of the EUV equipment market on EUR 32.7bn of 2025 revenue and a EUR 38.8bn backlog, and both Nikon and Canon invested billions and failed to build EUV. Firepower is 2 accordingly.","sub_category":"Lithography","signals_total":6,"url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/lace-lithography","title":"Lace Lithography · ai core, Bergen, Vestland, Norway · scores, facts and signals · Frontier Tech Intelligence","description":"Lace Lithography is developing atom-beam lithography systems that use metastable helium atoms for nanoscale patterning in chip fabrication beyond EUV. AI Core watchlist (score 47) 6 signals and 6 facts with sources.","publisher":"Frontier Tech Intelligence (Future Frontiers, a trade name of Essential Cognition Inc.)","note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}