Neural Concept has raised a $100 million Series C funding round to expand its AI-native engineering platform, with Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives leading the financing, and existing backers Forestay Capital, Alven, HTGF, D.E. Shaw Ventures, and Aster Capital participating.
The Lausanne, Switzerland-based company said the new capital will help it accelerate product development and global expansion as industrial enterprises push beyond pilot projects and deploy AI across core engineering workflows. Neural Concept positions its platform as CAD native and physics-aware, designed to help engineering teams understand geometry, constraints, and design intent while enabling earlier exploration of design options to reduce late-stage changes.
Neural Concept said its technology is already delivering measurable results for customers, including savings of $50 million annually, reductions in late-stage redesigns of 30-50%, and time-to-market acceleration of up to 2 years. The company added that it has generated a fourfold increase in enterprise revenue over the past 18 months and that more than 50 global companies are actively using the platform, including General Motors, General Electric Vernova, Leonardo Aerospace, Eaton, Safran, and Renault Group, as well as multiple Formula 1 teams.
The company plans to use the Series C proceeds to expand its product roadmap and go-to-market footprint. Neural Concept said it intends to unveil a generative CAD capability in early 2026, expand its global GTM teams, and strengthen its role as an intelligence layer across engineering systems, while deepening partnerships with Nvidia, Siemens, Ansys, Microsoft, and AWS.
The financing follows Neural Concept’s $27 million Series B in 2024. It comes as engineering organizations in sectors such as automotive, aerospace and defense, energy, semiconductors, and consumer electronics seek tools that can shorten development cycles and improve performance outcomes without lengthy integration work.
Neural Concept was founded in 2019 and spun out of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). Goldman Sachs said its alternatives business manages more than $500 billion in assets, and its asset management unit reported approximately $3.5 trillion in assets under supervision as of September 30, 2025.
KEY QUOTES:
“Neural Concept’s technology represents a rare leap forward in enterprise engineering AI.”
Lambert Diacono, Executive Director, Growth Equity At Goldman Sachs Alternatives;
“As demand accelerates for AI that drives real impact in complex industrial workflows, Neural Concept is emerging as one of the leading companies in the market.”
Christian Resch, Partner And Head Of EMEA Growth Equity At Goldman Sachs Alternatives
“We founded Neural Concept with the ambition to enable complete AI-driven design of advanced systems like tomorrow’s cars and spacecrafts. Advances in AI are transforming engineering from a process of trial and error into a data-driven workflow where tradeoffs and constraints can be understood and optimized from the start. This investment enables us to fast-track our progress toward establishing the intelligence layer powering every engineering team, worldwide.”
Dr. Pierre Baqué, CEO And Founder Of Neural Concept
