Nearfield Instruments

DeepTech · Rotterdam, NL

Maker of metrology and inspection tools for semiconductor manufacturing.

Founders

Hamed Sadeghian (Iran · ♂) — A nano-mechatronics researcher with a Delft PhD and 60+ patents, he co-founded Nearfield Instruments in 2016 as a TNO spin-out to build atom-scale metrology systems for advanced semiconductor manufacturing.
Roland van Vliet (Netherlands · ♂) — He co-founded Nearfield Instruments in 2016 as a TNO spin-out developing semiconductor process-control metrology.

Shares the most investors with (number = shared investors):

Date	Round	Amount
Jul 2024	Series C Nearfield Instruments, a Rotterdam semiconductor-metrology firm, closed a EUR135M Series C led by Walden Catalyst and Temasek.	$145.8M
Sep 2023	Funding round Rotterdam-based NearField Instruments raised EUR27M, with new investor ING Corporate Investments and Invest-NL, for chip fault-detection metrology.	$29M
Jul 2021	Funding round Dutch atom-scale metrology firm Nearfield Instruments secured EUR12M in equity from existing shareholders Eugene Investment & Securities and Innovation Industries Fund.	$14.1M
Jun 2021	Series B Rotterdam semiconductor-metrology company Nearfield Instruments raised EUR17.5M in its Series B, with Invest-NL contributing EUR10.5M and Innovation Industries EUR7M.	$20.6M

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