FundedIQ
Hardware

PDF Solutions: Funding, Investors & Team (Sep 2026)

PDF Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: PDFS) is a provider of yield improvement technologies and services for the IC manufacturing process life cycle. PDF Solutions offers solutions that are designed to enable clients to lower costs of IC design and manufacture, enhance time to market, and improve profitability by addressing design and manufacturing interactions from product design to initial process ramps to mature manufacturing operations. PDF Solutions' Characterization Vehicle® (CV®) test chips provide the core modeling capabilities, and are used by more leading manufacturers than any other test chips in the industry. PDF Solutions' industry leading yield management system software, dataPOWER®, and fault detection and classification software, mæstria®, enhance yield improvement and production control activities at leading fabs around the world. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., PDF Solutions operates worldwide with additional offices in China, Europe, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. For the company's latest news and information

www.pdf.com/home LinkedIn Santa Clara, United States 251-500 employees
Total raised
$20.2M
Rounds
1
Latest
Undisclosed round
May 2026

PDF Solutions has raised $20.2M across 1 funding round on record, the most recent an undisclosed round of $20.2M announced in May 2026.

That round is above the $10M median round size for Hardware companies tracked on FundedIQ over the last two years.

PDF Solutions Company Profile and Key Stats

Total funding raised
$20.2M
across 1 round on record
Funding rounds on record
1
Latest funding round
Undisclosed round
$20.2M in May 2026
Employees
251-500
reported band
Headquarters
Santa Clara, United States

Latest funding round on record: May 2026.

PDF Solutions Funding Rounds

Date
Round
Amount
Undisclosed round
$20.2M

PDF Solutions Founders and Leadership Team

Name
Role
Contact
John Kibarian
Founder
Locked

Contact details for the PDF Solutions team: 1 of 1 has an email address on file, 1 has a LinkedIn profile.

Start 14-day free trial →

PDF Solutions Funding Compared to Other Hardware Startups

Segment
Companies
Median round
1,454
$10M
29,722
$7.5M

PDF Solutions' latest round of $20.2M is above the median round in Hardware. Medians cover the last 24 months of disclosed rounds.

Funded Startups Like PDF Solutions in Hardware and Santa Clara

Companies Similar to PDF Solutions

Relativity Networks is the leading supplier of Hollow Core Fiber technology, which greatly enhances the speed…

Seed $22.0M

Oxide Computer Company produces server racks designed for on-site computer systems. Employing advanced…

Series D $445M

Aligned Data Centers is a prominent technology infrastructure firm that provides cutting-edge and flexible…

Private Equity

LeapXpert enables enterprises to embrace consumer messaging applications and integrate them into their…

Undisclosed round $180M

Prime Data Centers offers purpose-built data center development with unique customer partnership options and…

Undisclosed round $900M

Now in its fourth year, #GivingTuesday is a global day of giving fueled by the power of social media and…

Undisclosed round $4.0M

Duos Technologies provides intelligent video surveillance software featuring video analytics, as well as…

Undisclosed round $55.0M

Memory Store is a platform that offers a shared memory storage space for office teams and workforce.

Pre-Seed $500k

Agni's objective is to transform computing by delivering breakthrough memory solutions with unparalleled…

Seed $5.0M

Hydra Host is a tool that provides cross-cloud capabilities to deploy and host apps across public cloud and…

Series A $100M

PointFive enables continuous cloud cost efficiency through our proprietary DeepWaste™ technology, designed to…

Series B $60.0M

Duos Edge AI delivers adaptive edge data center solutions for digital infrastructure and connectivity across…

Undisclosed round $98.1M

PDF Solutions Funding FAQs

What does PDF Solutions do?

PDF Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: PDFS) is a provider of yield improvement technologies and services for the IC manufacturing process life cycle. PDF Solutions offers solutions that are designed to enable clients to lower costs of IC design and manufacture, enhance time to market, and improve profitability by addressing design and manufacturing interactions from product design to initial process ramps to mature manufacturing operations. PDF Solutions' Characterization Vehicle® (CV®) test chips provide the core modeling capabilities, and are used by more leading manufacturers than any other test chips in the industry. PDF Solutions' industry leading yield management system software, dataPOWER®, and fault detection and classification software, mæstria®, enhance yield improvement and production control activities at leading fabs around the world. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., PDF Solutions operates worldwide with additional offices in China, Europe, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. For the company's latest news and information

How much funding has PDF Solutions raised?

PDF Solutions has raised $20.2M across 1 round on record. The most recent is an undisclosed round of $20.2M announced in May 2026.

When did PDF Solutions last raise funding?

PDF Solutions' most recent funding round on record is an undisclosed round of $20.2M, announced in May 2026.

Who founded PDF Solutions?

FundedIQ lists John Kibarian (Founder) at PDF Solutions.

Where is PDF Solutions headquartered?

PDF Solutions is based in Santa Clara, California, United States.

How many employees does PDF Solutions have?

PDF Solutions is in the 251-500 employee band.

How does PDF Solutions' funding compare to other Hardware startups?

PDF Solutions' latest round of $20.2M is above the $10M median round size for Hardware companies on FundedIQ across 1,454 tracked companies over the last two years.

About FundedIQ's PDF Solutions Funding Data

FundedIQ tracks announced funding rounds and refreshes this profile every week. Round dates, stages and amounts are normalised to a single format, converted to US dollars, and de-duplicated: two records of the same round announced days apart are merged, and two genuinely different rounds are kept apart on the amounts they disclose. Amounts shown are the disclosed figures only — a round announced without a number is listed and excluded from the total rather than estimated.

Employee counts are reported bands, not exact headcounts. Founder and executive names carry the job title on record. Anything we do not hold for PDF Solutions is left off this page rather than filled in.

14-day free trial · Cancel anytime

Know who just raised. Then know who to reach.

Every newly funded startup with its round, its investors and its founders: delivered weekly by email, or searchable in the app.

Alerts from $19/mo · Pro from $99/mo. Card required, nothing charged until day 15, and we email you 3 days before that.