Companies · Hardware / Semiconductors
San Francisco · CA, USA · Hardware / Semiconductors · founded 2024 · https://outerport.com
Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Outerport — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.→Outerport: limited disclosed financing to assess.
Synthesized from the figures below est. — every claim rests on a number shown on this page.
Outerport is one of 130 Hardware / Semiconductors companies tracked from San Francisco, CA, USA, on record since 2024. By capital raised it ranks mid-pack (ahead of 48% of sector peers), and mid-pack by modeled valuation est..
Ranking is computed against this company's own sector cohort — reported capital is fact; valuation tiers are modeled.
AI analyst read est. — model-extracted from this company's public description, not a verified fact. 30%
operates a technology-led product inferred from public copy
Grounded in: “You are a venture analyst”
AI Electromechanical Process Engineers for Heavy Industries
Building out new LNG plants, HVAC systems, or semiconductor processes rely on hundreds of iterations of feasibility testing (through simulation or real-world lab tests) where different designs (combinations of equipment) and parameters are validated. The parameters are often locked in PDFs (datasheets, wiring diagrams, PFDs/P&IDs) which take thousands of hours to convert into CSVs / JSONs, and the simulators don't have an easy API to work with. Outerport bridges the gap by finding documents from PLMs, extracting structured data from drawings, building a knowledge graph over them, and building autonomous AI agents that can fully automate this R&D process by running simulations and performing design checks.
As reported in public records reported — not modeled.
Solid bars are reported offering amounts reported; hatched bars are the modeled post-money valuation est. — both on one shared scale so you can read raise-vs-worth at each round directly. Use the toggles to overlay data labels and the niche-peer / market average value lines.
No round amounts on record to chart.
No staged rounds to sequence.
Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size. Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks. Directional, not a quoted figure.
Not enough modeled valuation points to chart a trajectory.
Benchmarked against 130 companies in Hardware / Semiconductors. Each bar is a median (the middle company, not an average — outliers don't skew it). Two yardsticks: real money raised (reported on Form D) and modeled value (our estimate est.). These are whole-sector medians across all stages, except the per-stage row.
Raised more than 48% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 48% of peers (estimate).
Stage is inferred from round size est., not reported on the filing — a round's dollar size maps to a bucket: Pre-Seed <$1.0M · Seed $1.0M–$4.0M · Series A $4.0M–$15M · Series B $15M–$40M · Series C $40M–$100M · Series D+ $100M–$400M · Growth/Late >$400M.
| Stage | Amount · real | Announced | Post-money · est | Value · est | Conf. |
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| No rounds recorded. | |||||
Predictive signals are modeled est. from this company's own cadence and step-up, plus sector benchmarks — directional, not advice. Peer set and a CSV export live in your analyst workspace.
Outerport is an official record sourced from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). U.S. data is aggregated from SEC Form D filings.
Nearest neighbours across the whole database — matched on sector, stage and capital scale, and on shared operators (officers or directors named at both companies in public filings). A discovery shortlist, not a valuation cohort — verify before acting, the same way modeled figures are directional.
| Company | Sector | Stage | Raised · real | Value · est | Why similar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AccessOwl | Hardware / Semiconductors | — | — | — | same sector |
| ACCO Semiconductor, Inc. | Hardware / Semiconductors | Series A | $55.1M | $123.3M | same sector |
| Activeloop | Hardware / Semiconductors | — | — | — | same sector |
| Advanced Silicon Group, Inc. | Hardware / Semiconductors | Seed | $1.0M | $14.6M | same sector |
| AeroFS | Hardware / Semiconductors | — | — | — | same sector |
| Afrostream | Hardware / Semiconductors | — | — | — | same sector |
| Aisle50 | Hardware / Semiconductors | — | — | — | same sector |
| AKHAN Semiconductor, Inc. | Hardware / Semiconductors | Series B | $26.0M | $207.6M | same sector |
Matched by meaning, not labels — a local language model reads each company's name, sector and description and ranks the closest in that learned space. This catches look-alikes that cross sector boundaries; the structured list above explains its matches, this one trusts the text. Directional, like every modeled signal here.
| Company | Sector | Stage | Value · est | Match |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prox AI technical support for complex physical products | Climate / Cleantech | — | — | 75% |
| Inviscid AI Real-time Physics Simulations for Industrial Facilities & Data Centers | Energy | — | — | 74% |
| Outship Hire amazing engineers by seeing how they use AI | AI / ML | — | — | 74% |
| SnapMagic AI-assisted electronics design | AI / ML | — | — | 73% |
| Stillwind Autonomous Electrical Engineering | — | — | — | 73% |
| Artillery The complete production quality platform. AI-powered E2E testing,… | AI / ML | — | — | 73% |
| Ember Robotics Datadog for robots | Robotics | — | — | 73% |
| OutboundEngine, Inc. | Other Technology | Series B | $548.2M | 73% |
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