ScentifAI has joined the Silicon Catalyst Japan portfolio under a memorandum of understanding signed on October 7, 2026. The Tokyo-based company develops a CMOS sensor that captures odors as images. Silicon Catalyst and its U.S. organization will support the company's commercial expansion in the United States.
Support in the United States
Paul Pickering, Managing Partner at Silicon Catalyst, will lead the U.S. program. He brings about 40 years of experience in semiconductors, MEMS, and sensors. Initial customer development will focus on physical AI and robotics, food and beverage, healthcare, and industrial safety.
Odor imaging on one chip
ScentifAI's sensor combines proprietary sensing membranes with a standard semiconductor CMOS process. It records an odor or chemical environment as a high-resolution chemical fingerprint. About 57,000 pixels fit on a 1.2 square millimeter sensing area, and all peripheral circuitry is integrated on a roughly 3 square millimeter silicon die.
Company and platform
ScentifAI was founded in September 2025 and is headquartered in Tokyo. CEO Shunichiro Kuroki leads the company. It is building a multimodal data platform that pairs chemical-fingerprint data with digital-olfaction AI and is running proof-of-concept projects with global technology companies.
Over the coming months, ScentifAI plans to begin co-development projects with North American customers. It also plans to expand its chemical-fingerprint data collection to increase its value as AI training data. The company will raise additional capital from global investors.