Benzinga and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below. Silicon Valley heavyweights, including Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, General Catalyst, and Valor Equity Partners, have poured over $100 million into San Francisco chip startup Substrate. Their investment in the secretive U.S. startup founded in 2022 marks their ambitions to disrupt Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (NYSE:TSM) and ASML Holding NV (NASDAQ:ASML) in advanced chipmaking. Founded by brother ...