Aerogen Systems
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About Aerogen Systems
YC company profile
Modernizing Chip Manufacturing Infrastructure
We are building the future of chip manufacturing.
Chips are more advanced than ever, and the features inside them keep getting smaller. But the cleanroom infrastructure supporting their manufacture has not scaled at the same pace. Intel, TSMC, Samsung, and others spend billions building and operating massive cleanrooms, only to isolate their most advanced wafers from the surrounding facility as much as possible.
We think that architecture is backwards. Instead of making the entire building cleaner, why not make the machinery itself as clean as possible?
Talos is our proprietary tool-integrated purification system. It sits directly inside semiconductor equipment and continuously destroys airborne molecular contaminants before they reach the wafer. Instead of fighting contamination by constantly flooding tools with ultra-high-purity nitrogen, Talos keeps the environment inside the machine 10–100x cleaner, without the massive purge-gas bill.
Talos is powerful on its own, but it is also the foundation for a much bigger vision: the Cleanpipe.
The Aerogen Systems Cleanpipe is an ultra-clean interconnect infrastructure that protects wafers as they move from machine to machine across the fab. Rather than relying on a billion-dollar cleanroom to protect every cubic foot of factory space, Cleanpipe creates a controlled environment only where cleanliness actually matters: around the wafer.
Talos cleans the tools. Cleanpipe connects them. Eventually, we delete the cleanroom and build more advanced chips, at greater scale, with radically less infrastructure. With cleanpipes connecting tools, chip fabs can exist anywhere.
- YC batch: Summer 2026
- Founded: 2026
- Team size: 4
- Location: Ann Arbor, MI
- Country: US
- Status: Active
- Industry: Industrials
- Stage: Early
- Tags: Hard Tech, B2B, Manufacturing, Semiconductors
- YC partner: Jon Xu
Founders
Noah Vogel — Founder/CEO
Founder & CEO at Aerogen Systems. Previously engineering intern at SpaceX building Starship actuators and at Draper developing advanced mission simulators. BSE Aerospace Engineering from University of Michigan.
Colin Lavery — Founder/CTO
Co-founder & CTO of Aerogen Systems. Previously an electrical engineer at H3D, developing 3D gamma ray imaging systems. BSE Space Sciences and Engineering at the University of Michigan.
Source: Y Combinator · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.