Tattvam AI, a semiconductor design automation startup, has raised £1.3 million in a pre-seed round led by Seedcamp, with participation from EWOR, Entropy Industrial Ventures, Concept Ventures, and angel investor Stan Boland. It develops artificial intelligence technology to automate semiconductor chip design. The funding will be used to expand its engineering team, accelerate research, bring its chip design product to market, and strengthen partnerships with global chip design teams.
Current artificial intelligence tools, including large language models, are described as lacking the ability to understand the deep structural complexities required for chip design. Tattvam AI is building a reasoning model designed to understand circuits from first principles, including constraints, trade-offs, and interdependencies, to enable faster and more efficient design processes.
Founded last year by Bragadeesh Suresh Babu and Lannan Jiang, the business aims to reduce the time required to design chips. Its approach is intended to enable the creation of purpose-built chips and improve overall system performance.
Industry participants in the round state that the technology could significantly accelerate the iterative chip design process, reducing timelines from years to weeks, and expect it to be adopted by leading semiconductor design teams.
We’re building a reasoning model that actually understands circuits from first principles – the constraints, the tradeoffs, the interdependencies – in the same way a world-class engineer would, doing it in a fraction of the time.
