Twenty per cent of the global chip design workforce is in India. Forty years of experience across analog, RF, memory, digital, and EDA. Over 100 semiconductor startups, two-thirds of them in Bangalore. The talent has always been here. What's been missing is the ecosystem to channel it into globally competitive companies.

C2i Semiconductors is building exactly that. A fabless chip design company specialising in analog and mixed-signal technologies, targeting applications across telecommunications, consumer electronics, and automotive systems. The team brings decades of collective experience in semiconductor design, and they're building from first principles rather than adapting existing playbooks.

Analog and mixed-signal design is a space where deep expertise matters. It's not about scale or speed to market. It's about precision, reliability, and understanding the physics. C2i's founding team has the domain depth to compete globally, and government support through the Design Linked Incentive scheme provides meaningful tailwinds.

When Lip-Bu Tan, one of the most respected figures in the global semiconductor industry, chose to co-invest alongside us, it validated what we already believed. C2i has the ingredients to become a globally competitive fabless chip company emerging from India.

Fabless chip design is a strong focus area for Yali Capital. C2i represents the kind of company we set out to back when we started this fund.