Discovered Materials
Discovered Materials is a YC Spring 2026 (P26) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Team of 2.
About Discovered Materials
Summary
Discovered Materials builds AI agents that discover new materials for semiconductor chips, targeting datacenters and fabrication plants. Heat dissipation and power consumption in AI chips are hitting the limits of current materials, and finding replacements through conventional lab work takes a decade or more. The agents compress that process from years to months, replacing the slow cycle of interdisciplinary research, simulation, synthesis, and testing that chipmakers and chemical suppliers run today.
Go-to-market
The primary customers are semiconductor manufacturers and the chemical companies supplying fabs, engaged directly through research partnerships, as the team's existing relationships with Intel and TSMC roadmap processes show.
From the Y Combinator listing
AI scientists to discover materials for the semiconductor industry.
We use AI to discover new materials for the semiconductor industry - specifically datacenters and fabs. Finding novel materials today takes 10+ years of lab work. We aim to compress that timeline to months, using a swarm of AI agents. Akash completed his PhD at Stanford on material discovery for semiconductors. The materials he discovered for nanoscale interconnects have been adopted into the roadmaps of Intel and TSMC. Advaith was the founding applied scientist at Persona AI (acquired by Luma Labs), where he built long horizon autonomous agents for major telecom and crypto companies. Power consumption and heat release from AI chips is doubling every year. The semiconductor industry needs new materials to keep this exponential going - Discovered Materials will help find them.
Facts
- Industrials / Industrials
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- 2
- Active
- Early
Founders (2)
- Akash Ramdas
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