IIT Madras alumnus-founded deeptech startup Tattvam AI raises $1.7 million in funding

Tattvam AI, a deeptech startup building AI systems to automate semiconductor chip design, has raised $1.7 million in pre-seed funding led by Seedcamp, with participation from EWOR, Entropy Industrial Ventures, Concept Ventures, semiconductor angel Stan Boland.

Founded by IIT Madras alumnus Bragadeesh Suresh Babu, Tattvam AI aims to bring transformation to the semiconductor world enabling more chips, designed faster, customised for the exact application making the applications built on top of them dramatically faster. 

The startup is introducing a novel approach to chip design by building an AI system that deeply understands circuit structure and autonomously solves complex design tasks, reducing chip development cycles.

"Chip design is fundamentally a reasoning problem over an enormous search space, not unlike the kind of reasoning that’s needed to solve hard problems in mathematics. Current AI tools, even the most advanced LLMs, struggle with the deep structural understanding that chip design demands. We're building a reasoning model that actually understands circuits from first principles - the constraints, the tradeoffs, the interdependencies - the same way a world-class engineer would and doing it in a fraction of the time," said Bragadeesh Suresh Babu, CEO and Co-founder, Tattvam AI.

By automating key parts of the design process, Tattvam AI aims to make custom silicon accessible to more companies, reduce development costs, and enable rapid iteration on chip designs - bringing what currently takes 2-3 years down to weeks.

“Bragadeesh is one of the most driven, energetic and compelling young founders in today’s chip industry.  His conviction that Tattvam AI will dramatically speed-up the complex and iterative process of using EDA tools and models to design chips, cutting timelines from years to weeks, is sure to be embraced by the world’s top teams” says Stan Boland, former founder/CEO at Icera (bought by NVIDIA) and Element 14 (bought by Broadcom).