Nino Repetti

When most people hear "solid-state," they think storage. But in Santa Clara, xMEMS Labs just gave that term new resonance, literally. The company just raised $21M in Series D funding led by Boardman Bay Capital Management, with Cloudview Capital, CDIB-TEN Capital, Harbinger Ventures, Susquehanna Asia Venture Capital, and other strategic investors tuning in. This isn't another round of capital, it's an #amplifier for a company turning silicon into a new language of #sound and #cooling for the AI era. Founded in 2018 by Joseph Jiang and Jemm Liang, xMEMS spun out of piezoelectric R&D at TSMC and turned what was once wafer-level theory into commercial hardware. Joseph Jiang, a veteran of Knowles, Fortemedia, and InvenSense, leads with precision and swagger, while Jemm Liang, who built Ultrachip from the ground up, drives the engineering with surgical focus. Co-Founder & CLO Wei-Fu Hsu, the former MediaTek exec and IP expert, ensures xMEMS' innovation is as protected as it is disruptive. Their play? A monolithic MEMS platform that transforms voltage into vibration, silicon into sound. Unlike legacy coil speakers and fans, xMEMS tech doesn't move parts, it moves markets. Over 500K MEMS speakers shipped in 1H'24, backed by >250 global patents. The Cypress & Sycamore lines redefine what "small" can do: 1mm-thin, full-range, and capable of sub-bass response once thought impossible in earbuds. Their XMC-2400 µCooling chip, 1mm-thin, fan-on-a-chip, inaudible, moves 39cc/sec of air at just 30mW. That's not cooling, that's choreography at a molecular level. Dr. Chester Hwang, named CTO on Oct 15, 2025, joins to push that curve further. Alongside veterans Mike Housholder (VP Marketing & Biz Dev), Jim Wargnier (VP N.A. & EU Sales), James Lee (VP & Korea GM), Steven P. Bentley (VP Sales), and Martin Lim (VP MEMS Tech), xMEMS is scaling at semiconductor speed. They're already in BleeqUp's AI sports glasses and teamed with Dongguan Rayking Electronics for TWS modules. When OEMs talk "next-gen," they're talking xMEMS-level integration. For investors like Boardman Bay's Will Graves, this isn't just sound engineering, it's signal intelligence. With AI pushing devices thinner, faster, and hotter, xMEMS' piezoMEMS platform sits at the intersection of #acoustics and #thermals, where every millimeter matters. Backing them is a bet that the next wave of #sensorytech won't just compute, it'll feel alive. So what's next? Scaling production, expanding capacity, and embedding xMEMS' silicon pulse into everything from earbuds to AI #datacenters. In a world chasing speed, silence, and fidelity, xMEMS isn't following the beat, they're building the frequency the future will hum to. #Startups #StartupFunding #VentureCapital #SeriesD #AI #Sound #SoundEngineering #Semiconductors #Data #DataDriven #Technology #Innovation #TechEcosystem #StartupEcosystem #Hiring #TechHiring If software engineering peace of mind is what you crave, Vention is your zen.

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🌐 NextPlane Introduces Cross-Platform Voice & Video Calls Between Teams and Google Chat! OpenHub now supports seamless voice and video calling between Teams and Google Chat, allowing users to elevate any chat into a call without switching apps. This upgrade streamlines collaboration, reduces tool-hopping, and keeps hybrid teams connected in the most natural way. 👉🏻 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/d8cmfRQu #NextPlane #Interoperability #SeamlessCommunication #CrossPlatform #CollaborationTools #UnifiedCommunications #GoogleWorkspace #MicrosoftTeams

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Benioffs, Salesforce give $139 million to UCSF and AI education - San Francisco Chronicle Marc Benioff and Salesforce give $139 million to UCSF and AI education, part of the CEO and his company's ongoing philanthropy. https://lnkd.in/dqHQSfEb

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🚀Live: DocuSign integration in PostSig DocuSign handles the signing. PostSig takes it from there. Now you can pull executed agreements straight from DocuSign into PostSig—making it easier than ever to activate contract terms, monitor obligations, and keep vendor workflows moving. No downloads. No friction. Just faster time to control. Smarter workflows start here. See how it works → https://hubs.li/Q03lvllc0

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What a great example of #airporttech! I like the "...friendly nudge by an officer." Excellent use case of curb management. Thank you Andrew K Kirk and Automotus for your partnership. INRIX #airports #govtech

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"The scale of the Gainsight compromise underscores that many organizations did not apply the lessons they should have learned from Drift, leaving large portions of their SaaS supply chain exposed.” I can't stop thinking about that quote from Brian Soby on the #Salesforce Gainsight breach because it covers exactly what I and other important voices in this ecosystem are saying: security is a never-ending commitment. Do not wait to apply appropriate security measures until after an attack has happened. Do not assume this kind of breach will not happen to you. Data is now more powerful than ever, and it is our responsibility to protect it. Check out more on the latest situation in my post here: https://lnkd.in/ew2twrkr

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Zendesk has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Forethought, which will take #ZendeskAI's ability to learn from every interaction and will amplify it across every channel and platform. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gwx6DSS3

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Read Salesforce's AI roadmap. Then Gong's. Then Outreach's. Not one of them mentions the word "integration." --- That's not an oversight. It's the business model. Salesforce has no incentive to share CRM data with Gong. Gong has no incentive to share conversation data with Outreach. Each vendor's moat is their data. The moment they share it, they commoditize themselves. So each one builds smarter AI on their own data. In their own silo. Each release makes their product better and makes YOUR problem harder — because now you have more AI features to manually connect. --- The pattern is structural. It's not going to change from inside the stack. Enterprise sellers know this. You've been the integration layer for years. The only thing that changed in 2024 is that there are now 5 AI features in that stack instead of zero, and every single one of them starts from zero, has no memory of the others, and asks you to re-explain your world. More AI. Same problem. Bigger gap. --- The architectural answer isn't a better tool inside the stack. It's a layer that sits above all of it — one that holds the seller's complete context, connects what each tool knows, and does the work that none of the siloed AIs can do. Without needing vendor permission to exist. That's what this Claude CoWork plugin does. Link in the comments. #ClaudeCoWork #SalesArchitecture #EnterpriseSales

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