Vinci Raises $46M for AI System That Simulates Chips 1000x Faster

• Vinci’s software runs chip simulations up to 1000 times faster than traditional tools, without meshing or customer data.
• The system is already deployed at three semiconductor companies and delivers verified results immediately on installation.

Silicon Valley-based startup Vinci announced $46 million in funding and the launch of its chip simulation platform after more than two years in stealth. Designed to speed up semiconductor design cycles and lower compute costs, the system delivers full-resolution simulations significantly faster than traditional tools and is already in use by three major chipmakers.

“At Vinci our goal is to let any engineer see how their design will perform once built,” said Hardik Kabaria, Founder and CEO of Vinci, in a press release. “Vinci empowers engineers to simulate how designs will perform in seconds instead of days, doing so at a fraction of the compute cost. On next-generation geometries that conventional tools must simplify, such as nanometer-scale components on centimeter-scale dies, Vinci maintains full-fidelity accuracy.”

Vinci’s agentic system combines physics-based methods with AI to deliver semiconductor simulations up to 1000 times faster than traditional tools, without sacrificing accuracy. It does not require meshing, avoids false outputs, and operates without access to proprietary data. The company says more than ten semiconductor firms have independently benchmarked the system, with results that matched or exceeded existing methods. The software is production-ready and requires no training or setup.

“Vinci has demonstrated the ability to deliver lightning-fast, high-accuracy simulations without requiring customer data for some of the world’s most complex physical devices, state-of-the-art semiconductor packages,” said Phil Inagaki, Managing Partner & Chief Investment Officer at Xora, in a press release. “Soon, we believe that Vinci’s platform will deliver not only simulation, but also co-design capabilities across a broad range of physics and hardware products, which will result in a radical expansion of what has been traditionally viewed as the EDA market.”

The founders of Vinci have backgrounds in computational geometry and large-scale machine learning. The company's investors include Eclipse and Khosla Ventures, with its Series A led by Xora Innovation.

🌀 Tom’s Take:

Vinci combines physics simulation, geometry processing, and AI into a single system built for real-world engineering. It reflects a broader move toward AI tools designed not for language or images, but for simulating and accelerating physical design work.

Source: Business Wire / Vinci