ChipAgents has closed an additional $60 million in an extended Series 2A round, bringing the semiconductor AI startup’s total funding to $134 million.
The company develops AI agents for verifying and optimizing microchips. Founded in 2024 and based in Santa Clara, California, ChipAgents said it will direct the new capital toward expanding platform adoption, growing its engineering and commercial teams, and advancing its technology.
According to the company, the platform improves verification process performance by 80% compared with standard industry methods. Monthly queries to the platform grew 6,377% during the first half of 2025, ChipAgents said.
More than 120 semiconductor companies have used the platform, including Micron and MediaTek. ChipAgents describes its technology as a shift from conventional AI assistants to autonomous agents capable of independently carrying out specific engineering tasks during chip development.
The platform applies those agents to accelerate RTL verification, a process that checks the correctness of digital circuit descriptions written in hardware modeling languages. It also uses them to identify design errors and optimize chip construction.
Founder and CEO William Van said rising chip architecture complexity, combined with pressure to bring new products to market faster, is generating demand for tools that can shorten development timelines and reduce the risk of design errors.
