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“Diamfab: Pioneering the Use of Diamond Semiconductors for Sustainable Progress in French Deep Tech”

Diamfab Management Team Gauthier Chicot Ivan Llaurado Khaled Driche ©photo Gilles Galoyer
French spinout Diamfab, founded in 2019, is one example. They also raised an €8.7 million round of funding from Asterion Ventures, Bpifrance’s French Tech Seed fund, Kreaxi, Better Angle, Hello Tomorrow and Grenoble Alpes Métropole. But diamond wafers could also be leveraged for nuclear batteries, space tech and quantum computing, too. While there’s warranted hype around AI in Paris, Grenoble may be the closest to a French Silicon Valley. Now Diamfab hopes it can play a part, too, and unleash the full potential of diamond in semiconductors.