Vinci, a Silicon Valley startup pioneering physics-driven artificial intelligence for hardware design, formally emerged from stealth with $46 million in total funding after completing its Series A round led by Xora Innovation and a Seed round led by Eclipse.
The company unveiled a production-ready AI system designed to accelerate semiconductor design and simulation by up to 1000 times and scale them, delivering results up to 1000 times faster than traditional finite element analysis tools and providing full-fidelity accuracy without requiring customer data.
Founded in 2023 by computational geometry expert Hardik Kabaria and machine learning and autonomous systems leader Sarah Osentoski, Vinci has built a platform that merges physics, geometry, and high-performance computing into a foundation model purpose-built for physical-world simulation. Vinci stated that its agentic system performs like a team of hardware engineers, running thousands of verified simulations in hours rather than weeks and maintaining accuracy on complex, full manufacturing resolution geometries that typically break conventional tools.
The company reported that its platform is already deployed behind the firewalls of three leading semiconductor manufacturers and has been validated by more than 10 additional companies that benchmarked Vinci’s output against traditional FEA solvers and experimental data.
In all evaluations, Vinci matched or exceeded the accuracy of established methods while significantly reducing computation time and eliminating the need for meshing or proprietary training data.
Vinci highlighted that the rising complexity of semiconductor packages, including advanced 2.5D and 3D IC architectures, has made conventional simulation workflows increasingly slow, limited in resolution, and dependent on scarce domain expertise. The company stated that its technology addresses these constraints by combining proven physics models with high-scale AI, enabling any engineer to evaluatethe real-world performance of chip designs in seconds and at a fraction of the compute cost.
The company’s investors emphasized Vinci’s ability to ship production-grade software capable of handling state-of-the-art physical devices. They pointed to its potential to expand beyond simulation into broader co-design capabilities across physics-driven hardware development.
KEY QUOTES:
“At Vinci our goal is to let any engineer see how their design will perform once built. 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.”
Hardik Kabaria, Founder and CEO of Vinci
“Few teams combine deep physics expertise with the ability to ship real, production-ready software. Vinci’s technology is already demonstrating value in the field — accelerating workflows and delivering accuracy that engineers can trust.”
Charly Mwangi, Partner at Eclipse
“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. 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.”
Phil Inagaki, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer at Xora
