Vinci
Semi supply chain · US
Vinci was valued at $1.5B as of 6 October 2026 (verified). Source: Reuters (wire copy), Software startup Vinci raises $250 million at a $1.5 billion valuation (Series B jointly led by Advent, Temasek and Xora, with AMD Ventures participating).
Palo Alto company (founded 2023 by Hardik Kabaria, Mustafa Hajij, Vincent Rerolle and Sarah Osentoski) building a physics-AI foundation model for hardware design: it simulates chip thermal, thermo-mechanical and warpage behaviour - the failure modes that matter most in advanced packaging and 2.5D/3D-IC - and claims up to 1,000x faster than traditional finite-element analysis with no meshing step and no customer data.
- Valuation
- $1.5B
- Confidence
- verified
- As of
- 6 October 2026
- Layer
- Semi supply chain
- Signal
- AI design simulation
- Website
- getvinci.ai
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Notes
Palo Alto company (founded 2023 by Hardik Kabaria, Mustafa Hajij, Vincent Rerolle and Sarah Osentoski) building a physics-AI foundation model for hardware design: it simulates chip thermal, thermo-mechanical and warpage behaviour - the failure modes that matter most in advanced packaging and 2.5D/3D-IC - and claims up to 1,000x faster than traditional finite-element analysis with no meshing step and no customer data. The pitch is cycle time rather than accuracy alone: a simulation cheap enough to run after every major change to a blueprint catches problems the day after a design change rather than a fortnight later. It came out of stealth in March 2026 on $46M and is about 70 people. The $250M Series B at a $1.5B valuation, announced 2026-10-06, was jointly led by Advent, Temasek and Xora with AMD Ventures among the participating strategic funds; proceeds go to compute costs, hiring and simulating whole systems rather than chips alone. It sits beside Synopsys and Cadence here as design software rather than silicon, and the AMD Ventures leg is what puts it on the map at all.
Sources
- Reuters (wire copy), Software startup Vinci raises $250 million at a $1.5 billion valuation (Series B jointly led by Advent, Temasek and Xora, with AMD Ventures participating) 2026-10-06
- SiliconANGLE, Vinci reels in $250M for its engineering simulation platform 2026-10-06
- FinSMES, Vinci raises $250M in Series B funding 2026-10-06
- Vinci (company release), Vinci emerges from stealth to transform semiconductor design and simulation 2026-03-26
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