Maieutic Semiconductor Bags $4.15 Mn In Seed Round

Maieutic Semiconductor Bags $4.15 Mn To Automate Chip Design With GenAI

SUMMARY

Maieutic Semiconductor’s funding round was co-led by Endiya Partners and Exfinity Venture Partners

The Bengaluru-based GenAI startup is building an AI-powered platform to automate the early-stage design process for making analog IC chips

The capital will be used to expand the engineering teams and improve time to market

Semiconductor design-focussed GenAI startup Maieutic Semiconductor has raised $4.15 Mn (about INR 35 Cr) in its seed funding round co-led by Endiya Partners and Exfinity Venture Partners.

The startup plans to deploy the capital to expand the engineering teams and improve time to market.

The chip design cycle in semiconductors typically takes weeks and is also resource intensive. To shorten this process, Gireesh Rajendran, Ashish Lachhwani, Rakesh Kumar, and Krishna Sankar founded Maieutic Semiconductor in 2025 to build an AI-powered copilot to automate the early-stage design process for making analog IC chips.

The founders have years of experience in chip designing and semiconductor space. Rajendran, Lachhwani and Kumar founded Steradian Semiconductors earlier, which was acquired by Tokyo-based semiconductor solutions company Renesas Electronics in 2022. Steradian was a fabless semiconductor company specialising in imaging radars.

Meanwhile, Sankar was previously associated with LifeSignals, which makes chips for collecting biomedical data.

Maieutic claims that its GenAI-first solution automates early-stage chip design, domain expert review process, and enables intelligent analysis of design trade-offs.

The startup’s AI platform is built on a customised AI model trained on the know-how of the semiconductor design process. The model is trained on data sets which can aid designers to make their work more efficient.

Maieutic competes directly with Alpha Design AI in the global GenAI platform space for chip designing, while it also partially locks horns with Vixiv, Empower Operations and Aera. These players will fight it out to capture a share of the pie in the global semiconductors market, which is poised to become a $1 Tn opportunity by 2030.

Maieutic’s fundraise comes at a time when the Centre is leaving no stone unturned to make India a powerhouse in chip manufacturing. As a result, a number of startups are mushrooming in the sector to capitalise on India’s semiconductor market, which is expected to reach the $270 Bn mark by 2032.

Investors are also bullish on the startups in the segment, with the likes of Mindgrove Technologies and C2i Semiconductors bagging funding over the past year.

Overall, seven semiconductor startups in India raised funding of over $28 Mn last year.