News
Funding, events and recognition as we bring maskless lithography to more fabs and labs.
October 2026
We’re excited to welcome Blitzscaling Ventures and Omni Ventures as partners in our seed round. Both firms share our belief that chip prototyping should be fast, affordable, and accessible beyond the largest fabs, and we look forward to building with them.
September 2026
Nabu exhibited in the Silicon Startups Zone at SEMICON Taiwan 2026 in Taipei (September 2–4), showing the ANU-1 maskless lithography tool. Our founder and CEO, Dr. Imad Agha, also presented on the startup stage on high-speed direct-write thermal lithography.
September 2026
Nabu was selected as one of the top 50 global startups in SLINGSHOT 2026, Enterprise Singapore’s deep tech startup competition. More than 6,800 startups applied last year, and we’re proud to be recognized among this year’s field.
May 2026
A year after winning the EIPBN Startup Contest, Nabu returned to the conference as an exhibitor at EIPBN 2026 in Denver (May 26–29). It was great to reconnect with the nanofabrication community and show how far ANU-1 has come.
June 2026
We’re pleased to welcome RDF Ventures as an investor. RDF backs early-stage founders obsessed with their mission, and we’re grateful for their support as we bring maskless lithography to more fabs and labs.
November 2025
Nabu received its first venture backing from SOSV through HAX, its hard tech program. HAX’s experience with hardware startups is helping us move from working prototype to commercial tool.
2025
With our first working prototype in hand, Nabu was accepted into gener8tor’s gBETA accelerator. The program sharpened our go-to-market focus and set us up for our first venture partnership.
May 2025
Nabu won the Startup Contest at the 68th International Conference on Electron, Ion, and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication (EIPBN 2025). We pitched to some of the world’s leading nanofabrication researchers and took home the top prize.
May 2024
Through the University of Dayton’s Propel Dayton program, Nabu received a State of Ohio Technology Validation Startup Fund award. This non-dilutive funding let us build our first prototype.