India, Sept. 4 -- Bluehill.VC, a frontier-tech-focused VC fund, has led a Rs 10.2 crore seed round in Makr Microsystems, a semiconductor metrology company, with participation from Artha Venture Fund.

Makr is developing technology that allows chipmakers to see and measure what is happening beneath the surface of a chip at the nanoscale.

The seed round will support the company's continued technology development, customer validation and progression toward commercial deployment.

For Bluehill, Makr represents the kind of company they want to identify and back with conviction early. Manu Iyer, General Partner, Bluehill.VC, says: "We are excited about companies that sit deeper in critical technology value chains. Makr is solving a difficult p...