ChipAgents.ai

🚀 ChipAgents is the coolest agentic AI platform company in town! What an incredible week at DVCon. Seeing our booth and talks packed with engineers, verification leaders, and chip designers from across the industry reminds us why we started ChipAgents in the first place: to bring AI agents into the heart of semiconductor engineering. Over the past year, what began as an idea has turned into a movement. Today, ChipAgents is helping design and verification teams rethink how chips are built, from UVM testbench generation to root-cause analysis and multi-agent AI collaboration. But the most inspiring part of this journey isn’t the technology. It’s the people. We are just getting started. The future of chip design will be built by AI-native engineering teams, and we’re proud to be building that future together. Let’s go ChipAgents. 🔥

🚀 ChipAgents at DVCon 2026 On Monday at DVCon 2026, we introduced Root Cause Analysis (RCA) powered by the industry’s first multi-agent AI teams to the chip design and verification community. The room was completely packed: more than 300 engineers and leaders joined our lunch session. Standing room only. For decades, debugging has been manual, sequential, and human-in-the-loop. Today, we demonstrated something fundamentally different: • Multi-agent AI teams collaborating on complex debugging tasks • Divide-and-conquer search to navigate massive design spaces • Autonomous RCA with no human in the loop • Intelligent analysis of compressed waveforms at scale This is not a copilot or AI agent. This is an AI team. The semiconductor industry is entering an AI-native era, and debugging is just the beginning. Huge thank you to the DV community for the energy, the thoughtful questions, and the packed audience. The momentum is real. If you missed the session and want to learn more about AI-native chip design and verification, reach out. The future of chip engineering will be built by AI agents working alongside human engineers, and at ChipAgents, we’re building that future.

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We're thrilled to announce that ChipAgents has raised an oversubscribed $50M Series A1, bringing our total funding to $74M. This round was led by Matter Venture Partners, a TSMC-backed HardTech VC firm, with continued support from Bessemer Venture Partners, Micron, MediaTek, Ericsson, and other strategic partners. Since our Series A just months ago, the momentum has been extraordinary: 140× year-over-year ARR growth, deployments at 80+ leading semiconductor companies with multi-year, multi-million-dollar contracts, team growth from 10 to 46 employees, and a move to our new 20,000 sq ft headquarters in Santa Clara. We're also honored to welcome Wen Hsieh, Founding Managing Partner of Matter Venture Partners, to our Board of Directors, and Sandeep Bharathi, President of Marvell's Data Center Group, to our Advisory Board. They join an exceptional group including Wally Rhines, Jack Harding, John Bowers, and Erez Tsur. The future of chip design is autonomous, intelligent, and faster than ever. This is just the beginning.

We’re excited to share that Samsung Electronics' venture arm has made a strategic investment in ChipAgents. This partnership reflects a shared conviction: as chips become more complex and design cycles tighten, AI agents will be foundational to how silicon is designed, verified, and brought to production. Samsung is one of the world’s most advanced semiconductor innovators, spanning memory, logic, and foundry. Their decision to invest underscores the real, production-level impact ChipAgents is already delivering across RTL development, verification, and engineering productivity for leading chip teams. We’re grateful for Samsung’s trust and excited to work together on pushing the frontier of AI-native chip development. The future of semiconductors will be built by humans and AI agents, side by side.

#NeurIPS2025 with the ChipAgents crew! 🚀 Pushing boundaries on AI for chip design and verification, one breakthrough at a time. Come find us and feel free to talk to our guys: we’d love to chat. 🤝

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We’re bringing multi-agent root cause analysis to production! With ChipAgents RCA, our customers are now debugging at unprecedented speed, resolving errors over 12× faster than human design engineers, and performing 30-40% better than state-of-the-art software engineering AI agents across complex ASIC designs. This is a huge milestone for autonomous hardware debugging, and just the beginning of what multi-agent systems can do for semiconductor engineering.

I had a chat with William Wang, CEO of ChipAgents @AlphaDesignAI, about how the company wants to use agentic AI to help design chips. The startup already has 50 customers: eetimes.com/chipagents-rai…

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We’re proud to announce that ChipAgents has raised a $21M Series A to redefine AI for chip design and verification. This round, led by Bessemer Venture Partners with participation from Micron, MediaTek, Ericsson, and other leading semiconductor partners, brings our total funding to $24M, and marks a major step forward in our mission to bring agentic AI to the core of semiconductor design. Over the past year, ChipAgents has grown faster than we could have imagined with 50x year-over-year sales growth, deployments at 50 leading semiconductor companies, and a 6,000%+ surge in platform usage. Behind these numbers are engineering teams who are now designing, verifying, and innovating at an entirely new pace. We’re also honored to welcome Wally Rhines (former CEO, Mentor Graphics), Raúl Camposano (former CTO, Synopsys), Jack Harding (former CEO, Cadence), and Erez Tsur (former CEO, Cadence Israel) to our advisory board. Their experience and insight will be invaluable as we continue to scale. To our customers, partners, and team, thank you. Your trust, collaboration, and passion are what drive us to keep pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in EDA. The future of semiconductor design is intelligent, agentic, and faster than ever. And this is just the beginning.

Excited to announce that ChipAgents will be speaking at the upcoming IP & EDA session of AI Infra Summit in Santa Clara Convention Center next week! 📅 3:15 PM, 9/10, Wed, 2025 How Agentic AI is Reinventing Chip Design and Verification Our Head of Engineering, Mehir Arora, will share how AI Agents, powered by LLMs and advanced algorithms, are moving beyond traditional automation to independently manage hardware modeling, debugging, testbench creation, and design optimization. He’ll also highlight real-world use cases showing how AI is delivering breakthroughs in productivity, design quality, and time-to-market. We’re also thrilled that our VP of Strategic Accounts, Jeffrey Critten, will be at the event to connect with industry leaders and discuss how ChipAgents is partnering with semiconductor companies worldwide. 👉 If you’re attending, come join the session and meet the ChipAgents team!

AI can help engineers do their jobs better, but results can vary greatly by area of expertise & company size. Final in 3-part series w/6 industry experts semiengineering.com/value-of-ai-in… #AI #semiEDA #chipdesign @bayasystems @Cadence @AlphaDesignAI @Synopsys @Keysight @siemenssoftware

Congratulations Mehir Arora and ChipAgents team for winning the Best Tutorial Award on “How Agentic AI is reinventing chip design and verification” at DVCon Japan 2025!

Every aspect of data center energy use must be optimized to reduce power consumption and enable more sustainability, from chips to transformers and edge compute. semiengineering.com/for-chip-devel… #datacenter #HPC #AI #semiEDA #semiconductor #EnergyEfficiency #powerconsumption

How AI Will Impact Chip Design And Designers: 6 industry experts discuss the role and impact of AI in chip design. Part 1 of series. semiengineering.com/how-ai-will-im… #semiEDA #AI @bayasystems @Keysight @AlphaDesignAI @Synopsys @siemenssoftware @Cadence

One notable company doing interesting fault localization work in DV is @AlphaDesignAI … semiwiki.com/artificial-int…

Despite consolidation amongst incumbents, the AI wave is spurring many exciting challengers. The most well-attended session at DAC so far highlights EDA startups: @ChipStackAI @AlphaDesignAI Rise DA @SilimateInc @bronco_ai @AiVerifai Verifaix Most are focused on automating design verification, a notoriously slow & costly step, for faster speed-to-market. Other tools include RTL codegen, waveform debugging, PPA estimation, playbook documentation, etc. Early adopters like @SiFive @tenstorrent @Etched (AI accelerator on TSMC 4nm node)