Walden Catalyst and Temasek led a €135m Series C funding round in Nearfield Instruments.

Walden Catalyst, a US venture capital firm helping the next generation of category-defining businesses in deep-tech, and Temasek, a global investor that also looks into opportunities in emerging technologies to solve complex and high impact challenges, led a €135m Series C funding round in Nearfield Instruments, the developer of state-of-the art Metrology & Inspection solutions for the semiconductor manufacturing industry, with the participation from M&G Investments and Invest-NL. “Advanced semiconductors are the key pillars for global innovation and growth. The next generation of semiconductors will be driven by Advanced Lithography and 3D Integration, with smaller features, deeper trenches, and tighter tolerances. The high-volume manufacturing of these next gen devices requires new process control tools to enable higher yield and throughput, and Nearfield’s metrology solutions are critical for solving these process control challenges. We are excited to partner with Hamed and his world-class team to further accelerate Nearfield’s growth,” Young Sohn, Walden Catalyst Founding Managing Partner.