Semiconductor startup Tattvam AI raises $1.7 million from Seedcamp, others

Tattvam AI aims to make custom silicon accessible to more companies, reduce development costs

Tattvam AI, a deeptech startup building AI systems to automate semiconductor chip design, has raised $1.7 million in its pre-seed funding led by Seedcamp, with participation from EWOR, Entropy Industrial Ventures, Concept Ventures, semiconductor angel Stan Boland.

“Current AI tools, even the most advanced LLMs, struggle with the deep structural understanding that chip design demands,” said Bragadeesh Suresh Babu, CEO and Co-founder, Tattvam AI.

Babu, an alumnus of IIT Madras and an early employee at UK based brain-monitoring startup CoMind and chip startup Fractile, founded Tattvam AI with Lannan Jiang, who has been developing chips at a research lab at ETH Zurich.

Tattvam AI plans to launch its first product in the coming months as it works with partners to accelerate the development of next-generation chips.

“We're building a reasoning model that actually understands circuits from first principles - the constraints, the tradeoffs, the interdependencies - the same way a world-class engineer would and doing it in a fraction of the time."

Tattvam AI aims to make custom silicon accessible to more companies, reduce development costs, and enable rapid iteration on chip designs - bringing what currently takes 2-3 years down to weeks, as per its claims.

The round comes at a time when deep tech funding in India is entering a more active funding phase as startups such as Exponent Energy, Calligo Tech, Qosmic and Sanyark are stitching together fresh funding rounds from investors such as 360 One, BIG Capital, Accel, South Park Commons (SPC) and Avaana Capital, as they showcase viable business models, sources had told Moneycontrol.