aid: nantero
name: Nantero
description: >-
  Nantero, Inc. was a Woburn, Massachusetts nanotechnology company founded in 2001 by Greg
  Schmergel, Thomas Rueckes and Brent Segal to commercialize NRAM, a high-density non-volatile
  random-access memory that stores bits in the physical position of carbon nanotubes deposited
  on a conventional CMOS substrate. Its business was semiconductor intellectual-property
  licensing, not software: it raised more than $40 million through a Schlumberger-backed Series D
  in 2013 and a further ~$31.5 million Series E in 2015 from investors including Charles River
  Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson, licensed NRAM to Fujitsu Semiconductor in 2016, granted
  Lockheed Martin an exclusive government-applications license in 2008, and collaborated with imec
  and Nano-C, but shipped its technology to foundry partners as process IP and test wafers rather
  than as any product a developer could call. Nantero ceased operations in mid-to-late 2024; its
  assets were partially acquired by Micron Technology and the remainder sold at auction. It never
  published a developer portal, API, SDK, or machine-readable specification of any kind, and the
  nantero.com domain has since been re-registered by an unrelated party. This profile is retained
  as a historical record; there is no API surface to enrich.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nantero/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: defunct-no-api-surface
x-status: defunct
x-shutdown-date: '2024'
x-acquired-by: micron
x-acquired-note: >-
  Partial asset acquisition by Micron Technology during the 2024 wind-down; the remaining
  equipment and assets were sold at auction by August 2024. Not a whole-company acquisition.
x-domain-status: reassigned
x-domain-note: >-
  nantero.com is no longer controlled by Nantero. WHOIS shows a GoDaddy / Domains By Proxy
  registration updated 2025-06-10, and the host now 301s to unrelated third-party sites and
  serves a single 719,496-byte Thai-language online-gambling SEO page as a catch-all 200 for
  every path, including paths that cannot exist. It is deliberately NOT wired as a Website
  pointer. The successor-branded nanterotech.com is NXDOMAIN. See
  well-known/nantero-well-known.yml for the full probe record.
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-26'
modified: '2026-08-26'
tags:
- Company
- Defunct
- Semiconductors
- Memory
- Nanotechnology
- Hardware
- Intellectual Property
- Carbon Nanotubes
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common: []
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-26'
  status: nochange
  artifacts_added: 1
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: defunct
  detail: >-
    Nantero ceased operations in mid-to-late 2024 (assets partly to Micron, remainder
    auctioned) and nantero.com has since been re-registered by an unrelated party that
    answers HTTP 200 with the same 719,496-byte Thai gambling page for every path, so its
    /.well-known/ and /openapi.json 200s are a catch-all rather than any surface Nantero
    ever served.
  evidence:
    - url: https://nantero.com/
      status: 301
    - url: https://nantero.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
      status: 200
    - url: https://nanterotech.com/
      status: 0
    - url: http://web.archive.org/web/20240116172446/https://www.nantero.com/
      status: 200
  checked: '2026-08-26'