Our Vision
A holistic planarization process that uses no abrasives and is environmentally sustainable.

Our Mission
To disrupt semiconductor manufacturing with a ‘no-defect, no compromise’ planarization process to increase yields.

Our Founders
Sudhanshu Misra (President & CEO)
Sudhanshu Misra is an experienced executive with 25 years of experience in the semiconductor industry with a focus on advanced materials innovation and commercialization. He has held leadership-level roles with companies such as NthDegree, Entegris, Marubeni, and NexPlanar (a CMP pad company he co-founded) and technical roles at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, and Texas Instruments. His responsibilities have included overall business and financial performance, product development and innovation, trading, risk management, fundraising, and building successful start-ups. Sudhanshu holds a PhD from the University of Florida, a Masters from Colorado State University, and a Bachelors from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay—all in chemical engineering. He holds an MBA from Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida.

Professor S. V. Babu (CTO)
Babu Suryadevara, professor emeritus, has been a Professor of Chemical Engineering for over 40 years at Clarkson University and spent eight years at IIT Kanpur before that. He was also the Director of the Center for Advanced Materials Processing (CAMP) from 1999 to 2015 and Vice Provost, Research from 2001 to 2004 at Clarkson. During his time at Clarkson, he initiated research into CMP of metal and dielectric films. Clarkson is recognized internationally as a strong leader in multiple aspects of CMP research. He has received two lifetime achievement awards: one from Clarkson and the other from ICPT. He is also the co-author of 32 US patents. Babu received a PhD in Physics from Stony Brook University, an M.Tech from IIT Kharagpur, and a B.Tech from Andhra University, both in chemical engineering.