Designing the chips that let sensors think for themselves
Catalyst Neuromorphic is a UK semiconductor company based in Aberdeen, we design brain-inspired processors and sell them as finished chips, as opposed to licensing our designs or running a cloud service.
2026
- FebN1 and N2 open-sourced
- FebJoined Techscaler
- MaySelected for Converge
- JulAccepted into ACCEND
- Jul130nm compute tile through physical signoff
- AugConverge Net Zero finalist
- NextWorking demonstrator
- 2027First fabricated silicon
Founder
Henry Shulayev Barnes
Founder
Henry founded Catalyst Neuromorphic and runs the company, from product direction through to partnerships and funding, and pitched it at the Converge Challenge in 2026.
Advisers
Dr Dave Hughes
Deep technology and scaling
Founder and Chief Technical Officer of Novosound, and winner of the Converge Challenge in 2017.
Ian Phillips
Energy transition and industrial markets
Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Aberdeen Centre for Energy Transition.
Alister Minty
Finance and commercialisation
Director of Neuehansa and of the Entrepreneur Business School in Glasgow.
Alex McGregor
Commercial strategy and international growth
International commercial executive, with fourteen years in senior commercial leadership at International SOS.
Programmes
Converge, Net Zero finalist 
Cohort two 
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