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Bridging Cambridge and Silicon Valley: Two Innovation Powerhouses, One Mission

This quarter took our CEO, Dr Franck COURBON, across Silicon Valley -from Sunnyvale (where Atari began), through Mountain View, Santa Clara, Palo Alto, Berkeley and into San Francisco. It was intense in the best possible way 🚀.

Now, back in Cambridge (UK), arguably the most innovative city in Europe, carrying fresh perspectives, conversations, and energy from both sides of the Atlantic.

Two Ecosystems, Two Strengths

The contrast between Cambridge and Silicon Valley is striking, and deeply instructive.

Cambridge thrives on:

• Deep tech excellence

• Long-term thinking

• Quiet focus and research-driven breakthroughs

It is a place where hard problems are tackled at their root, often years before markets fully form.

Silicon Valley, and especially San Francisco, excels in:

• Speed and scale

• Capital availability

• Rapid execution, funding, and acquisitions

Ideas move quickly, talent is highly mobile, and ambition is built directly into the ecosystem. One landscape is flat, the other hilly, but both are global engines of innovation.

The Power of Connection

A huge thank you to Silicon Catalyst UK for providing such an outstanding platform and community. The week was defined by conversations with brilliant people across:

• Entrepreneurship

• AI

• Security and hardware security

• Semiconductors

• Defence

• Investment

What stood out most was not just expertise, but the openness and collaborative spirit and, of course, the Californian sun.

Connecting Two Worlds

What excites us most is the opportunity to connect these two ecosystems for mutual benefit. Cambridge’s depth and Silicon Valley’s scale are highly complementary. Bringing together:

• Capital

• Strategic partners

• Customers

• And frontier technology

creates real momentum—particularly for companies like Ethicronics, operating at the intersection of hardware security, semiconductors, and trust.

This is not about choosing one ecosystem over the other. It’s about building bridges between them, and turning innovation into impact.