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The Machines That Teach AI Chips to Behave
Onto Innovation does not design the AI chip. It builds the eyes, rulers and feedback loops that help factories make those chips without wasting a fortune.
Wellspring International Education
Wellspring International Education is a Colorado-based international student recruiting firm that helps U.S. colleges and universities build a global brand and enroll talented students from around the world. Through a network of 800+ agencies and in-market representatives across 30+ countries, plus its acquired digital platform StudyMe and the American Honors community-college pathway, Wellspring runs the full funnel - from student fairs and application vetting to yield management and enrollment support.
Gauss Labs
Gauss Labs is a Palo Alto-based industrial AI company building software that reads the firehose of data coming off semiconductor fabs and predicts what's about to go wrong. Spun out with $55M in seed capital from SK hynix in 2020, its Panoptes Virtual Metrology and Image Metrology products are deployed inside SK hynix's high-volume memory fabs, where they have measured tens of millions of wafers and cut process variability by double digits.
Mike Young-Han Kim
Mike Young-Han Kim is the founding CEO of Gauss Labs, a Palo Alto-based industrial AI startup revolutionizing semiconductor manufacturing. An 11th-generation academic descendant of Carl Friedrich Gauss, he holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford along with dual master's degrees in EE and Statistics. Before founding Gauss Labs in 2020, he was a tenured IEEE Fellow professor at UC San Diego and the inaugural recipient of the James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award. Backed by $55M from SK hynix, his company's Panoptes VM platform now inspects over 50 million wafers at SK hynix facilities - at one wafer per second - reducing process variability by 29%.