Vinci raises $250M at a $1.5B valuation for physics AI in chip design
2026-10-06 · Vinci
Palo Alto startup Vinci raised a $250 million Series B led by Advent, Temasek and Xora Innovation, with Eclipse, Khosla Ventures and Madrona, less than a year after a $46 million round in December 2025. Its software predicts the physical behaviour of chip and hardware designs before they are built, starting with heat, and the company plans to add vibration and electromagnetics. It reports designs of more than 15 billion degrees of freedom analysed in minutes; its speed claims have not been independently verified.
- $250M: Series B, led by Advent, Temasek and Xora Innovation
- $1.5B: valuation
- 15B+: degrees of freedom per design, as reported by the company