SiTime is funded by top-tier venture capital companies, including Bosch Group, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Greylock Partners, and CampVentures.

Bosch Group
The Bosch Group is a leading global manufacturer of automotive and industrial technology, consumer goods, and building technology. In fiscal 2005, some 251,000 associates generated sales of 41.5 billion euros. Set up in Stuttgart in 1886 by Robert Bosch (1861-1942) as “Workshop for Precision Mechanics and Electrical Engineering,” the Bosch Group today comprises a manufacturing, sales, and after-sales service network of more than 280 subsidiaries and more than 12,000 Bosch service centers in over 140 countries.

Together with its subsidiaries and affiliated companies, Bosch safeguards its future by significant upfront investments in research and development every year. In 2005 this R&D expenditure reached 3.1 billion Euros (7.4 % of sales). Bosch leads the field of patent application in automotive technology worldwide, while it is the second largest overall patent applicant in Germany. As a Corporate Venture Capitalist, Bosch is relatively new in the field of fostering cutting edge research developments outside its own core sectors. Its focus is currently on MEMS technology for sensor applications in the Consumer and Medical markets.

New Enterprise Associates (NEA)
NEA is a leading venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs create and build major new enterprises that use technology to improve the way we live, work, and play.  Since its founding in 1978, the firm has followed the same basic principles:  support its entrepreneurs, provide an excellent return to its limited partners, and practice its profession with high standards and respect.  Practicing classic venture capital for over 25 years, NEA focuses on early stage investments, playing an active role in assisting management to build companies of lasting value.  With $6 billion under management, NEA's experienced management team has invested in over 500 companies, of which more than 145 have gone public and more than 185 have been acquired.  NEA has offices in Reston, Virginia, Menlo Park, California and Baltimore, Maryland.
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Greylock Partners
Over the past forty years, Greylock has raised a series of eleven partnerships with current committed capital in excess of $2.2 billion, and has helped build approximately 300 developing companies.  Greylock has sponsored over 125 companies to successful initial public offerings–more than any other early-stage venture firm–and has been the lead or co-lead investor in most of them. Greylock's strategy is to partner with management in building companies that have the potential to become industry leaders and to always work with entrepreneurs to achieve their visions.
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CampVentures
CampVentures is a true seed-stage venture capital firm.   CampVentures engages with great companies in their earliest stages of development.   For such companies, CampVentures leads seed rounds on the order of $500K to $1.5M.   Once invested, CampVentures works intensely with its companies to prepare them for their next round of financing, which are nearly universally led by top-tier venture capital firms.   The fund has seeded deals for Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Sequoia Capital, Sevin Rosen Funds, New Enterprise Associates, Matrix Partners, Greylock Partners, August Capital, Trinity Ventures, VantagePoint Venture Partners, and many other blue chip firms.   CampVentures also "holds back" sufficient capital, in order to participate alongside these firms in all future rounds of financing.   The fund's goal is to be the firm of choice for the very best entrepreneurs, with the very best ideas, who are just getting their companies off the ground.
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