Company
RF Pixels, Inc.
A fabless semiconductor company in Sunnyvale, California, founded in 2016 by a team with ties to the UC Berkeley Wireless Research Center, building phased-array radio for the 5G millimetre-wave bands.
Skyworks Solutions acquired the company on 26 July 2021. The site is preserved here as a record of what RF Pixels published while independent.
At a glance
- Founded2016
- BasedSunnyvale, California
- IndustrySemiconductor — mmWave radio
- FundingVenture-backed; $1M convertible notes (2018)
- BackersSutter Hill Ventures, Celesta Capital, NSF SBIR
- StatusAcquired by Skyworks, July 2021
Timeline
Five years, four dates
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2016
Founded
PitchBook and the company’s SEC filing both record 2016 as the year the company was formed, as a Delaware corporation.
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2018
A $1,000,000 note round
Form D filed 18 September 2018: $1,000,000 of convertible promissory notes and the shares issuable on conversion, sold in full to 22 investors, signed by Larry Lang as President and CEO.
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2020
The public site
The site describes the phased-array radio, the mmWave challenge, the team’s UC Berkeley roots and four open engineering roles.
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2021
Acquired by Skyworks
Crunchbase records Skyworks Solutions acquiring RF Pixels on 26 July 2021; PitchBook and Crustdata both list the company as acquired.
The team
The SEC filing names Sriramkumar Venugopalan, Siva Thyagarajan, Ali Niknejad and Larry Lang as executive officers, with Stefan Dyckerhoff and Andrew Kau as directors. Larry Lang signed as President and CEO.
Backing
Venture, and public research money
Sutter Hill Ventures
Listed among the company’s backers by Crustdata.
Celesta Capital
Listed among the company’s backers by Crustdata.
National Science Foundation
NSF SBIR awards: $224,996 (Phase I) and $749,987 (Phase II), $974,983 in total, per the SBIR company profile.
Get in touch
Enabling 5G mmWave
The company was acquired by Skyworks in 2021. This site is a record of what RF Pixels published as an independent company.