Vinci (Series A)
Funding Details
Awarder
SemiNews
Date Award
December 2, 2025
Vertical
Semiconductor Design and Simulation
Funding Amount
$46,000,000
Company Info
Founding Year
2023
Traction
Validated by early deployments at leading semiconductor companies, with more than ten semiconductor companies independently benchmarking Vinci’s results against their traditional FEA solvers and experimental data.
Organizations Involved
leading semiconductor manufacturers
Founders
Hardik Kabaria, Sarah Osentoski
Market
Semiconductor Industry
Location
Palo Alto, California, United States
Coinvestors
Xora Innovation, Eclipse, Khosla Ventures
Company Description

Vinci brings physics-accurate design and simulation to the desk of any hardware engineer, at full resolution and up to 1000x faster than legacy tools, without IP risk. Its purpose-built foundation model for the physical world brings to physics what LLMs brought to language by integrating physics, geometry and high-performance computing, providing guaranteed-accurate results in seconds instead of days.

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