10 top startups to watch in 2013

12/24/2012 2:31 PM EST

Nantero made the list? Really? They have been around for more than 10 years and there has been little to watch. Why start now? :-) And since when did IMEC become this authority in technology trends. They mostly seem to be a touch behind the leading edge.

12/26/2012 8:12 PM EST

An 11 year old company with no income is not a startup, just a money sink. Sorry, but the VCs have probably diluted all the employees shares by now so there's not much motivation for the working stiffs. Good luck anyway.

12/27/2012 11:46 AM EST

FWIW, SuVolta's Scott Thompson was one of the most lively speakers at an IEDM panel moderated by a Globalfoundries tech exec.

1/2/2013 2:14 PM EST

SiTime is not alone in MEMS timing devices, many others including IDT are catching up fast. These devices are NOT replacements for more accurate TCXO's/OCXO's so the Silicon timing market (pegged at $1.2B total, a subset of frequency control components market at $4B). Of this, the MEMS oscillator market is projected to be at ~$440M by 2017... so the market is starting to get crowded.

MP Divakar

1/2/2013 5:02 PM EST

You guys are missing the point....start-ups are considered young, bold, attractive. The heavy hitters only look at the VC ones. There are, for example, small beverage companies slowly climbing the cliff. Triple-S Michelada (Brownsville), for example, is a small company causing quite a stir in the beverage world and is virtually unknown at this point still. Zimbio, Technorati, Orkut are other ones that should be up and coming pretty soon. No matter the company---the class product they represent is the difference between $$ and $$$$$$$$$$$$.

1/21/2013 3:27 AM EST

it have probably diluted all the employees shares by now. http://www.hqew.net

2/13/2013 3:55 PM EST

I would strongly recommend, based on experience on both sides, that the advice notice to be read state that the most risky investment are where external shareholder have less than 50% of the voting rights and/or there are any loans from controlling directors however small (for they can put the company into receivership by calling in the websites like http://britainloans.co.uk/ and refusing as directors to pay and then simultaneously asset strip to their benefit).

2/14/2013 11:55 AM EST

I think IEEE Spectrum picked them as a big looser a couple of years ago

2/14/2013 12:50 PM EST

SiTime will end up with Solyndra and 123Systems

3/10/2013 2:11 PM EDT

If this technology is going to fly it should be able to demonstrate more progress in 2013 and perhaps we will find out who are the strategic partners? http://ancala-azsearchforhomes.com/

3/24/2013 3:15 PM EDT

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4/16/2013 2:59 PM EDT

I've worked for many startups in my 40 years in the chip business, but none of them were nearly as old as these companies. When are you going to start following some real "Start-ups"?

4/16/2013 9:40 PM EDT

"IMEC executives expressed the hope that the memory could be deployed as a replacement for DRAM". Let me express the hope that AAPL returns to $700 before Jan., 2014. TYVM.

5/16/2013 11:45 AM EDT

Each year, the temperature of NYC’s start-up scene seems to get turned up another five degrees, with 2013 yielding by far the largest number and widest spectrum of companies. I think http://www.gfa.si is the most prominent company among all of those in list.