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Economic Times
03-07-2025
- Business
- Economic Times
Maieutic Semiconductor raises $4 million
Bengaluru-based deep tech startup Maieutic Semiconductor has raised $4.15 million in a funding round co-led by Endiya Partners and Exfinity Venture Partners, the company said on Thursday. The start-up is working on chip design by introducing generative AI to design and development workflows. "We are thrilled to have raised this round of funding and are incredibly grateful to have visionary partners like Endiya Partners and Exfinity Venture Partners on board, who not only believe in our mission but are actively supporting us as we build for the future of chip design," Rajendran said. With this new round of funding, Maieutic plans to expand its engineering team and significantly improve time to market. The company is on an aggressive hiring trajectory to build out its platform and take its vision to market. Founded by serial entrepreneurs and industry veterans, Maieutic's core team includes Gireesh Rajendran (CEO), Ashish Lachhwani (CBO), Rakesh Kumar (CPO), and Krishna Sankar (CTO), each a domain expert with over two decades of experience in semiconductor design, AI systems, and commercial product delivery. Collectively, the team holds over 70 patents and has shipped products that have sold over a billion units globally.
Time of India
03-07-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Maieutic Semiconductor raises $4 million
Academy Empower your mind, elevate your skills Bengaluru-based deep tech startup Maieutic Semiconductor has raised $4.15 million in a funding round co-led by Endiya Partners and Exfinity Venture Partners , the company said on start-up is working on chip design by introducing generative AI to design and development workflows."We are thrilled to have raised this round of funding and are incredibly grateful to have visionary partners like Endiya Partners and Exfinity Venture Partners on board, who not only believe in our mission but are actively supporting us as we build for the future of chip design," Rajendran this new round of funding, Maieutic plans to expand its engineering team and significantly improve time to market. The company is on an aggressive hiring trajectory to build out its platform and take its vision to by serial entrepreneurs and industry veterans, Maieutic's core team includes Gireesh Rajendran (CEO), Ashish Lachhwani (CBO), Rakesh Kumar (CPO), and Krishna Sankar (CTO), each a domain expert with over two decades of experience in semiconductor design , AI systems, and commercial product delivery. Collectively, the team holds over 70 patents and has shipped products that have sold over a billion units globally.
Entrepreneur
03-07-2025
- Business
- Entrepreneur
Maieutic Semiconductor Raises USD 4.15 Mn from Endiya and Exfinity
With this new round of funding, Maieutic plans to expand its engineering team and significantly improve time to market. You're reading Entrepreneur India, an international franchise of Entrepreneur Media. Maieutic Semiconductor, a deep-tech startup focused on transforming analog chip design, has raised USD 4.15 million in seed funding. The round was co-led by Endiya Partners and Exfinity Venture Partners, with the funds aimed at expanding its engineering team and accelerating its generative AI-powered chip design platform. Founded in Bengaluru by semiconductor veterans Gireesh Rajendran (CEO), Ashish Lachhwani (CBO), Rakesh Kumar (CPO), and Krishna Sankar (CTO), Maieutic is building the world's first GenAI copilot for analog semiconductor design. The founders, who collectively hold over 70 patents and have delivered products that have sold over a billion units globally, bring decades of experience in AI, analog design, and product commercialization. Maieutic's platform addresses a traditionally slow and manual domain of semiconductor design by applying generative AI to automate early-stage development, detect bugs, and optimise design trade-offs. The company aims to drastically reduce design cycles—from weeks to days—and empower engineers with intelligent tools to scale innovation. "Semiconductor design has remained largely untouched by modern productivity enhancements," said Gireesh Rajendran, who previously co-founded Steradian Semiconductors. "At Maieutic, we're blending deep analog design expertise with cutting-edge AI to build a copilot that brings speed, intelligence, and scalability to analog chip development." The funding will support team expansion and accelerate the go-to-market efforts of Maieutic's GenAI platform, which is poised to make a significant impact in critical industries like communications, automotive, and industrial electronics. "Maieutic is solving a real problem that's resisted automation for decades," said Sateesh Andra, Managing Partner at Endiya. "Their AI-first approach has the potential to redefine analog chip design and place India on the global semiconductor map." Chinnu Senthilkumar of Exfinity added, "This team is uniquely positioned to disrupt a complex, underserved market with bold innovation. We're proud to back them."
Time of India
03-07-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Deeptech startup Maieutic Semiconductor raises $4.15 million from Endiya Partners, Exfinity Venture Partners
Academy Empower your mind, elevate your skills Bengaluru-based deeptech startup Maieutic Semiconductor has raised $4.15 million in seed funding in a round co-led by Endiya Partners and Exfinity Venture Partners The Bengaluru-based startup was founded by Gireesh Rajendran, Ashish Lachhwani, Rakesh Kumar, and Krishna Sankar. Maieutic is developing what they call the world's first GenAI copilot for analogue design. This platform aims to speed up the early stages of chip development, automatically find bugs, and improve decision-making around design the fresh funds, Maieutic plans to expand its engineering team and significantly improve time to market. The company is also hiring to build out its platform. The deployment of its product is yet to begin. Semiconductor design has resisted change and modern productivity enhancements, cofounder and chief executive officer Rajendra told ET. "Maieutic's copilot can reduce the design cycle from weeks to days, spot inconsistencies without expert intervention, and bring intelligence to every trade-off," he company set out to create its own AI platform because chip design requires a lot of domain-specific know-how, which is absent in a generic model. So, the first task was to build a clean enough data set that could be used to aid specific circuit designers."When we go through the process, there are lots of manual efforts related specifically to circuit design in creating test benches, drawing circuits, connecting outputs, and probing. So, with this agentic workflow, there is room to automate all these non-creative tasks, which leaves the designer to focus only on the creative tasks," CTO Sankar in AI is a crucial aspect to solve for, Sankar added, because for the circuit designer, accuracy is key. "The tool will have enough guardrails or training data around it to help make sure that the designer gets the accurate responses," he said."Maieutic is solving a real problem in the semiconductor design space, an area that has long resisted automation despite its growing complexity. Analogue workflows in particular have remained largely manual and dependent on domain expertise and time-intensive iteration," Sateesh Andra, managing partner at Endiya Partners, said in a statement.
